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Current Job Market Candidates of the Department of Political and Social Sciences

Please find more below about our job market researchers and their research

All our PhDs are reachable through email.

 

Aziz Bagadirov is a Hannah Arendt Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute (EUI). Previously, he has been a Chevening Scholar at the University of Southampton (UK) and has worked in the UN Refugee Agency. His research focuses on the connection between the structures of oppression and human flourishing, in particular a proper theory of well-being for relational egalitarianism. You can find his most recent co-authored work here.

Writing sample: "Structural injustice and human flourishing" (Abstract)

Research Interests: Political and Social Theory; Theories of Justice; Well-being; Class and Domination; Critical theory.

For more information and links to published and ongoing work, please visit: Personal Website

 

Ines Bolaños Somoano is a PhD Researcher in the Department of Political Sciences at the European University Institute, and a visting researcher at ISGA, The Hague. Her research looks at EU counter terrorism policy, concretely Prevention of Radicalization; online dissemination of propaganda; securitisation of Islam; and the growth of right wing extremist violence in Europe. Ines favors the use of qualitative methods: interviews and (digital) archival work.

Writing sample: The right-leaning be memeing: Extremist uses of Internet memes and insights for CVE design 

Research Interests: EU Internal Security; Prevention of Radicalization and Countering Violent Extremism; Institutional Fieldwork.

For more information and links to published and ongoing work, please visit: Personal Website

 

Giuseppe Ciccolini is a PhD Researcher in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute (EUI), External Consultant at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), and Adjunct Professor of Political Science at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. He is also Visiting PhD Researcher at the Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE) at Sciences Po.

Writing sample: "Left Behind Whom? Economic Status Loss and Populist Radical Right Voting"

Research Interests: Socio-economic Inequalities; Public Opinion; Voting Behaviour; Class Voting.

For more information and links to published and ongoing work, please visit: Personal Website

 

Alexander Davenport is a PhD Researcher in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute (EUI). He holds degrees from the Universities of York and Manchester. His PhD research focuses on liberal parties in Western Europe, and their general failure to win the support of voters who share their economically-right, culturally-libertarian ideological positions. In a research assistant capacity, he has also worked on projects relating to welfare recalibration as well as populist language in party manifestos.

Writing sample: "Sticking to the status quo: Explaining the lack of realignment among right-libertarian voters" (Abstract)

Research Interests: Party families; Electoral Politics; Liberalism

 

Marius Ghincea is a PhD Researcher in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute (EUI). Concurrently, he is a Research Fellow at the Hertie School of Government, Centre for International Security, and teaches Transnational Governance at the School of Transnational Studies as well as IR theory at the John's Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). Through policy papers and op-eds in major newspapers, he contributes regularly in Romanian and transatlantic policy debates on issues related to foreign policy and security. 

Writing sample: "Manufacturing Consensus: The Domestic Politics of Foreign Policy" (Abstract)

Research Interests: Determinants of Foreign Policy; Global Ordering Projects; National Identity Contestation.

For more information and links to published and ongoing work, please visit: Personal Website

 

Joe Kendall is a PhD Researcher in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute (EUI). He has been a visiting graduate student at UC Berkeley. His work focuses on how imperialism continues to shape contemporary politics. This includes experimental analysis of the politics of collective memory and defensiveness, as well as the use of causal inference techniques to study long-run legacies of empire on identity and political attitudes, particularly in Britain.

Writing sample: “Blood Runs Thicker than Water: Ancestral Ties to Slavery and Ingroup Defensiveness” 

Research Interests: Inter-group Relations; Legacies of Imperialism; Historical Political Economy; Political Psychology; Survey Experiments; Causal Inference.

For more information and links to published and ongoing work, please visit: Personal Website

 

Wolfgang Minatti is a PhD Researcher in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute (EUI), and a Visiting Scholar at the Cluster of Excellence SCRIPTS at the Freie Universität Berlin. His PhD project investigates the legitimation of armed actors during civil war, focusing on the Colombian conflict. He develops a relational theory of legitimation that allows to map the micro-dynamics of legitimacy and empirically illustrate this theory by investigating the legitimation of the FARC rebel group within the Colombian conflict, using a qualitative methodology.

Writing sample: "Legitimate Governance in International Politics: Towards a Relational Theory of Legitimation" 

Research Interests: International Relations Theory; (Global) Governance; Legitimation; Civil War.

For more information and links to published and ongoing work, please visit: Personal Website

 

Elena Pisanelli is a PhD Researcher in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute (EUI). She is currently visiting Axa Gender Lab (Bocconi University). In her research, she uses quasi-experimental and experimental methods to study the impact of artificial intelligence on firms and economic inequalities.

Writing sample: "A new turning point for women: artificial intelligence as a tool for reducing gender discrimination in hiring" 

Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence; Gender; Labor; Entrepreneurship; Political Economy.

For more information and links to published and ongoing work, please visit: Personal Website

 

Aleksei Pobedonostsev is a PhD Researcher in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute (EUI). His academic interests lie in political economy, comparative politics, and international relations. In his dissertation, Aleksei investigates how oil revenues are collected and redistributed in resource-rich societies. He taught political economy of development at the Technical University of Darmstadt and Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf.

Writing sample: "The Ambivalence of Power in the Twenty‑First-Century Economy" Cases from Russia and beyond "

Research Interests: Energy Policy; Economic and Political Development; Comparative Political Economy; Environmental Politics; Comparative Democratization; International Relations, Russian Politics. 

 

Lukas Schmid is a PhD Researcher in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute (EUI), and is a research affiliate with the EUI Migration Policy Centres’ “The ethics of migration policy dilemmas” project. He has been a visiting researcher at the University of California, Berkeley (Spring 2022). 

Writing sample: "'Saving Migrants' Basic Human Rights from Sovereign Rule'"

Research Interests: Social and Political Theory and Philosophy; Migration Studies; International Relations.

For more information and links to published and ongoing work, please visit: Personal Website

 

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    Natalia Tellidou

    PhD Candidate

    Department of Political and Social Sciences

Natalia Tellidou is a PhD Researcher in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute (EUI), and a Visiting Researcher at the University of Trier, in Germany, with a DAAD pre-doctoral research scholarship. She has been a guest lecturer for the course “Geopolitics” at the University of Florence, Italy (2019), and has designed and taught a block seminar at the Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf on “External Interventions in Civil Wars” (2020).

Writing sample: "The politics of differentiated integration : what do governments want? : country report : Greece"

Research Interests: International Relations; Civil War, Proxy War; Indirect Governance in Civil War.

For more information and links to published and ongoing work, please visit: Personal Website

Page last updated on 13/02/2023