People

Head of Department
Professor Paul Kelly
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Department Manager
Imran Iqbal
[email protected] | +44 (0)207 955 7908

Deputy Department Manager
Natalie Paris
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Faculty Enquiries
[email protected] | +44 (0)207 955 7908

Undergraduate Enquiries
[email protected] | +44 (0)207 955 6498

Postgraduate Enquiries
[email protected] | +44 (0)207 955 6300

PhD Enquiries
[email protected] | +44 (0)207 955 7929

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Please note, our student desk is at CBG 3.20 and our opening hours are weekdays, 10.00am to 12.30pm and 1.30pm to 4.00pm.

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Education Team

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Faculty Affairs Team

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Guest Teachers

Sebastian Balfour (GV245 Guest Lecturer)

Sarah Goff (GV4D7, GV4H3 and GV499)

Geoffrey Myers (GV343)

Jill Stuart (GV344/GV499)

Graduate Teaching Assistants

Maximillian Afnan (GV100)

Ville Aula (GV252 and GV263)

Luis Bosshart (GV482)

Morris Chan (GV101)

Cristina Conesa Pla (GV267)

Julia-Anne Costet (GV100)

Tommaso Crescioli (GV225)

Andrea Delestrade (GV100)

Tessa Devereaux-Evans (GV245)

Caroline Elak (GV248)

Melanie Erspamer (GV100)

Robert Falconer (GV249)

Ugo Gaudino (Dr) (GV248 and GV264)

Kristof Horvath (GV245)

Conor Kelly (GV311)

Yusuf Khan (GV262)

Paul Kindermann (GV251)

Matthias Kroenke (Dr) (GV101)

Evgeniya Kudinova (GV4L8)

Tiffany Lau (GV4L9)

Nick Lewis (GV101)

Xufan Ma (GV267)

Alexander McKenna (Dr) (GV311)

Stefano Merlo (GV441)

Lennard Metson (GV249 Data Assistant)

Emma Obermair (GV262)

Asfa Shakeel (GV249)

Alexander Soldatkin (GV263)

Sarah Tustin (GV101)

Stephanie Wanga (GV248)

Jan Wasserziehr (GV100)

Felix Westeren (GV262)

Peter Wyckoff (GV263)

Alex Yeandle (GV249)

Antoine Zerbini (GV225)

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Luqman Abu El Foul (MRes Student)
Thesis: 'Palestine up in Arms: Contentious Politics and the Arab Revolt of 1936-1939'
[email protected]

Meshal Alkhowaiter
Thesis: 'How targeted economic policies shape government approval in non-democratic and rentier countries'
[email protected]

Laurence Antao
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Luis Bosshart
Thesis: 'Essays in coming to terms with the past: Transitional justice and memory in postwar Germany'
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Morris Chan
[email protected]

Vanessa Cheng-Matsuno
Thesis: 'Political Instability: Does it Disrupt the Bureaucracy?'
[email protected]

Joel Chong
Thesis: 'Disenchanting the Divine'
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Asli Ceren Cinar
Thesis: 'Power of Perception: Unveiling the Multidimensional Dynamics of Candidate Preference'
[email protected]

Cristina Conesa Pla
[email protected]

Julia Costet
Thesis: 'Speaking Rape: Feminist Dilemmas on Language and Experience'
[email protected] 

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Reuben Finighan
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Maximilian Fink (MRes Student)
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Hilke Gudel
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Vincent Harting
Thesis: 'Material Constitutionalism and the Politics of Anti-Oligarchy'
[email protected]

Martin Haus
Thesis: 'Three Essays on Bureaucracy and Public Schools in Rural India'
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Isolde Hegemann (MRes Student)
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Angga Indraswara
Thesis: 'Beyond Numerical Inferiority: The Politics of Catholic and Protestant Minorities in Indonesia'
[email protected]

Gaetano Inglese
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Sarah Jewett
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Yusuf Imaad Khan
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Rune Wriedt Larsen
Thesis: 'Civil War, Statebuilding, and Types of Armed Organisations in Southeast Asia'
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Tiffany Lau
Thesis: 'Exposure to polarised political discussions online and generalised trust'
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Nick Lewis
Thesis: 'Do social media create bias in democratic deliberation?'
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Xufan (Nadia) Ma
Thesis: 'Chinese Feminism 1980s-2010s'
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Lennard Metson (MRes Student)
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Oscar Nowlan
Thesis: 'Blame Avoidance and Blame Attribution in Government'
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Emma Obermair
Thesis: 'Democratic equality, neoliberal capitalism and uncertainty: Critically rethinking scientific production'
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Alberto Parmigiani
Thesis: 'Essays on Economic and Political Inequalities'
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Michal Pasovsky
Thesis: (TBD) 'Multitudes of Denial in a Settler-Colonial State'
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Diego Sazo
Thesis: 'The Violent Disconnection: Broken Societies and the Logic of Civil Disorder in Latin America'
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Asfa Shakeel
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Andreas-Johann Sorger
Thesis: 'A Philosophical Colour Line: Racism and Political Theory'
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Carol Thanki
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Theint Theint Thu (MRes Student)
Thesis: 'The Politics of Public Service Provision in Fragile States'
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Tarsha Vasu (MRes Student)
Thesis: 'Political representation of women and education in India'
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Lorenzo Vicari
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Stephanie Wanga
Thesis: 'The State and its Competitors in East Africa: A History'
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Jan Henrik Wasserziehr
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Felix Westerén
Thesis: 'Preserving value in the face of climate change: a pluralist account'
[email protected]

Peter Wyckoff
Thesis: 'Employment, climate policy and legislative politics'
[email protected]

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Alex Yeandle
Thesis: 'Information and Electoral Accountability in Sub-Saharan Africa'
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Khairulanwar Zaini (MRes Student)
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Antoine Zerbini
Thesis: 'Essays in Informational Political Economy'
[email protected]

Emeritus | Affiliated | Visiting

Emeritus and Retired academic staff

• Sebastian Balfour (Prof) - Emeritus Professor in Contemporary Spanish Studies

• John Barnes (Mr)

• Rodney Barker (Prof) - Emeritus Professor of Government

• John Breuilly (Prof) - Emeritus Professor in Nationalism and Ethnicity

• John Charvet (Prof) - Emeritus Professor in Political Science

• Janet Coleman (Prof) - Emeritus Professor of Ancient and Medieval Political Thought

• Patrick Dunleavy (Prof) - Emeritus Professor of Political Science and Public Policy

• John Gray (Prof) - Emeritus Professor of European Thought

• Chun Lin (Prof) - Emeritus Professor in Comparative Politics

• John Madeley (Mr)

• Anne Phillips (Prof) - Emeritus Professor of Political Science

• David Soskice (Prof) - Emeritus Professor of Political Science and Economics

• Ernest Thorp (Mr)

Affiliated academic staff

• Michael Barzelay (Prof) - Professor of Public Management

• Charlie Beckett (Prof) - Director of Polis

• Kenneth Benoit (Prof) -  Head of the Methodology Institute

• Jean-Paul Faguet (Prof) - Professor of the Political Economy of Development, Department of International Development

• Tasha Fairfeld (Dr) - Assistant Professor, Department of International Development

• Kevin Featherstone (Prof) - Director, Hellenic Observatory

• Benjamin Lauderdale (Dr) - Methodology Institute

• Javier Ortega (Prof) - Professor of Economics (Kingston University London)

• James Putzel (Prof) - Professor of Development Studies

• Ken Shadlen (Prof) - Senior Lecturer in Development Studies

• Eiko Thielemann (Dr) - Associate Professor in Political Science and Public Policy

• Jonathan White (Prof) - Associate Professor (Reader) of European Politics, European Institute

Visiting academic staff

• David Banisar (Dr) - Visiting Senior Fellow (until May 2025)

• Sevinc Bermek (Dr) - Visiting Fellow (until August 2024)

• Carlos Bravo Laguna (Dr) - Visiting Fellows (until August 2024)

• Andrea Capussela (Dr) - Visiting Fellow (until April 2026)

• Francesco Colombo (Dr) - Visiting Fellow (until June 2024)

• Daniel de Kadt (Dr) - Visiting Senior Fellow (until February 2025)

• Francesco Esposito (Dr) - Visiting Fellow (until August 2025)
• Federico Fuchs (Dr) - Visiting Fellow (until March 2026)
• Francisco Garcia-Gibson (Dr) - Visting Fellow (until September 2024)
• Efe Gurcan (Dr) - Visiting Senior Fellow (until September 2025)

• Dominik Hangartner (Dr) - Visiting Professor (until November 2024)

• Helios Herrera (Prof) - Visiting Professor (until August 2026)

• Tuomas Kari (Dr) - Visiting Fellow (until July 2025)

• Bruno Leipold (Dr) - Visiting Fellow (until October 2025)

• Lanlan Li (Dr) - Visiting Fellow (until January 2025)

• Richard Mottram (Sir) - Visiting Professor (until September 2024)

• Geoffrey Myers (Prof) - Visiting Professor in Practice (until August 2026)

• Alberto Parmigiani (Dr) - Visiting Fellow (until May 2025)

• Elena Pupaza (Dr) - Visiting Fellow (until January 2025)

• Antoni Rodon-Casarramona (Dr) - Visiting Fellow (until December 2025)

• Andrew Rudalevige (Prof) - Visiting Professsor (until June 2024)

• Nelson Ruiz (Dr) - Visiting Senior Fellow (until May 2026)

• Lukas Slothuus (Dr) - Visiting Fellow (until September 2025)

• Zeynep Somer Topcu (Dr) - Visiting Senior Fellow (until July 2024)
• Christine Stedtnitz (Dr) - Visiting Fellow (until March 2027)
• Jill Stuart (Dr) - Visiting Fellow (until September 2026)

• Tinghua Yu (Dr) - Visiting Senior Fellow (until February 2025)

• Elisabeth Widmer (Dr) - Visiting Fellow (until April 2025)