With my PhD students, November 23, 2018

When I have availability, I am generally open to supervising projects

• with a historical approach to IR and which focus on (some aspect of) the evolution of the international system and the modern state, especially if the focus is on non-Western regions; 
• that aim to develop non-Eurocentric genealogies and/or histories of modern concepts such as sovereignty, state, nationalism, terrorism etc;
• focused on the relationship between foreign policy, social status, stigmatisation, ontological security, historical trauma, collective memory etc.; 
• conceptualising some aspect of hierarchies in world politics.​​

Due to the high volume of inquiries I receive (and also for reasons of fairness), I am unable to give specific feedback on pre-submission application materials, including research proposals. If you think your research interests match mine, feel free to name me as a potential supervisor in your application. Prior contact with me has no bearing on the chances of success of your application. I interview all applicants I am considering for PhD supervision, but only after they pass the initial admissions committee screening.

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Current PhD students (As primary)

ANNI HJERMANN (EXPECTED FINISH 2024/5)

MaRTIN HIRSCH (EXPECted finish 2024/5)

COL. WILL STRICKLAND (EXPECTED FINISH 2023)

Thesis title: Contemporary UK Strategic Practice: National Security Policy, Strategy and Decision-Making associated with Interventions.

Second supervisor: Jason Sharman

JANE DARBY MENTON (EXPECTED FINISH 2022)

Thesis Title: Narrating Foreign Affairs: Elites, the Press, and the Public in the New Digital Age
Second Supervisor: Prof David Runciman

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Graduated PhD Students (As primary)

MARIE PRUM (2017 - 2022)

Thesis:  The Politics of Sovereignty:
Segmentation and Stratification in International Order Today 

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LIANG ANYA CE (2017 - 2022)

Thesis title: Re-emergence: Temporality and Social Construction of Great Power

​Working on revisions

HAKAN SANDAL-WILSON (2016 - 2020) [GENDER STUDIES]

Thesis title: The Kurdish LGBTI+ Movement: Strategies and Tactics towards Radical Democracy

Visiting Fellow, POLIS, Cambridge

LUCAS DE OLIVEIRA PAES (2017 - 2020)

Thesis title: Networked Hierarchies: Readdressing the Regional-Global Nexus in International Politics​

Placement: Postdoc, NUPI (Oslo). ​

JAAKKO HEISKANEN (2016 - 2020)

​Thesis Title: The Ethnos of the Earth: Nationalism, Ethnicity, and the Structural Transformation of the International Order
Placement: Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship. POLIS, University of Cambridge.

​​DYLAN LOH (2015 - 2019)

Thesis title: "Diplomacy in the Making: A Practice-Based Account of China’s Foreign Ministry in the Field of Diplomacy"
Placement: Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University, Sin​​gapore.

PEERA CHAROENVATTANAKUL (2014 - 2018)

​Thesis title: "Ontological Security and Status-Seeking: Thailand’s Proactive Behaviours during the Second World War".  
Placement: Lectureship at Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand.