Department Member, Geography
Teaching Fellow in Political Geography
About
Before joining UCL Geography, I taught at the neighbouring School of Slavonic and East European Studies, where in November 2011 I was awarded my PhD. Previously, I completed an MA in Politics, Security & Integration at UCL (with distinction) and a BA in European Studies at Maastricht University (UM). Between 2007 and 2010 I was the recipient of the SSEES Foundation Fellowship.
Engaging debates in Political Geography, International Relations and (East) European Studies, my thesis investigates the role of temporality in geopolitical narratives, particularly in the context of the relationship between the European Union and the post-Soviet space. I zoom in on issues such as German-Russian energy security, the European Union’s discourse on Russian territory and the geopolitics of Belarus.
My next research project will try and put a spin on the recent (re-)turn to materiality in critical PG and IR by investigating the relationship between architecture and geopolitics in Germany. What has happened to that intriguing symbiosis between architectural and geopolitical timespace that could be found in National Socialism? Did it vanish alongside the tabooing of geopolitics and the disappearance of fascist architectural projects post-1945 - or did it merely transform into new spatiotemporal arrangements?
Publications:
(2011) ‘(Post)modern geopolitics: the European Union eyes Russia’ Europe-Asia Studies [forthcoming]
(2011) ‘Review of Jeremy Black: Geopolitics’ Millennium: Journal of International Studies [forthcoming]
(2011) ‘Geopolitics in Germany: return of the living dead?’ Geopolitics 16(3): 707-726
(2011) ‘Review of Martin Müller: Making great power identities in Russia’ Political Studies Review 9(1): 90
(2010) ‘Lost in conceptualization: reading the “new Cold War” with critical geopolitics’ Political Geography 29(6): 323-332 (with Felix Ciută)
(2008) ‘Geopolitical narratives on Belarus in contemporary Russia’ Perspectives: Review of International Affairs 16(1): 109-131
(2007) ‘Review of George A. MacLean: Clinton’s Foreign Policy in Russia’ Slovo: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Russian, East Central and Eurasian Affairs 19(1): 24-5
(2006) ‘The European Union’s strategic non-engagement in Belarus’ Perspectives: Central European Review of International Affairs 27: 25-43
(2006) ‘Review of Jan Zielonka: Europe as Empire’ Perspectives: Central European Review of International Affairs 27: 135-138
Teaching in 2011/2012:
Global Geographies (BSc)
Political Geography and Geopolitics (BSc)
Globalisation and Security (MSc)
Teaching in 2010/2011:
Introduction to International Relations (BA)
Security, identity, polarity: the contemporary debates (MA)
The theory and practice of social research (MA)
Contact Information
| Address: | Department of Geography |
