Supervision areas:
Maja Zehfuss is especially interested to supervise theses engaging with ethico-political questions arising in relation to war, the production of ethics, the problematic of memory or the question of reality, or theses inspired by poststructuralist thought.
PhD Students
Completed:
Dan Bulley, Ethics and Foreign Policy: Negotiation and Invention (joint supervision with Philippa Sherrington), ESRC funded. Awarded 2006. Winner of the Political Studies Association Lord Bryce Prize for Best Dissertation in International Relations/Comparative Studies in 2008.
Aggie Hirst, Encountering the Abyss: Deconstructing the Political Philosophy of Leo Strauss and the Straussian Interventions relating to the Invasion of Iraq (joint supervision with Angelia Wilson), ESRC funded. Awarded 2010.
Patrick Pinkerton, Biopolitics, Temporality and the International Presence in Bosnia and Herzegovina (joint supervision with Cristina Masters), ESRC funded. Awarded 2011.
Tom Gregory, Rescuing the Women of Afghanistan: Gender, Agency and the Politics of Intelligibility (joint supervision with Cristina Masters), funded by the School of Social Sciences. Awarded 2012.
In Progress:
James Alexander, The Security-Technology Nexus: Investigating the interplay between politics, technological solutions and the market for security technologies (joint supervision with Emmanuel-Pierre Guittet), ESRC funded.
Jamie Johnson, Human Security, Identity, Colonialism and International Practices of Governmentality (joint supervision with Peter Lawler), funded by the School of Social Sciences.
Astrid Nordin, Naming Asian Regions (joint supervision with William Callahan), funded by the British Inter-University China Centre.
Ronan O'Callaghan, The Just War in Contemporary Western Societies: A Critical Analysis (joint supervision with Peter Lawler), funded by the School of Social Sciences.
German Prieto Corredor, Regional Culture, Social Participation and Regional Cohesion in the Development of the Andean Community and Mercosur Regionalist Projects (second supervisor; lead supervisor Nicola Phillips).
Andrew Slack, Docile Bodies? Power, Violence and Resistance in Contemporary Slavery (joint supervision with Veronique Pin-Fat), funded by the School of Social Sciences.
