About
Taylor Sarah Ginieczki is a current PhD student in the Department of International Relations at LSE. Her research interests centre on security studies, focusing on US nuclear policy and grand strategy, threat perception, and realist theory and its applications.
She holds an MSc in International Politics (Distinction) from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, and an Honours BA in Political Science and Global Studies (Summa Cum Laude) from the University of Oregon, USA. Her areas of expertise span teaching, academic consulting, publishing, and research. Taylor has previously worked in research administration at University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland and taught at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland for two years as an International Politics teaching assistant/associate.
Research topic
"The Language of Threat: A Mixed-Method Computational Study on Threat Perception, China, and Nuclear Doctrine in US National Security Strategy (NSS) Documents"
Academic supervisors
Expertise
US Nuclear Policy; Threat Perception; Missile Defence; Realist Theory; Organisation Theory
Research Cluster affiliation
Security and Statecraft research cluster
Research
One Last Waltz? Neorealism’s Contradictions, Neoclassical Realism, and the Future of Realist Theory
co-authored with Professor Craig Parsons of the University of Oregon Political Science Department.
Maximizing Learning Objectives in Undergraduate Research Journals
Basaria, Shamel, Ginieczki, Taylor S., Hamilton, Davis S., Janapaty, Shloka V., and Nigam, Rohan (Executive Board, National Undergraduate Consortium on Science Journalism).
Journal of College Science Teaching, 52 no. 5, 2023 (May/June)
Letter from the Editors – Looking Backward: A Year in (Peer) Review
Ginieczki, Taylor Sarah, Taylor, Jay, and Schmitt, Kyla.
Oregon Undergraduate Research Journal, 20 no. 2, 2022 (Summer): ii–iii
Letter from the Editor
Ginieczki, Taylor Sarah
Oregon Undergraduate Research Journal, 20 no. 1, 2022 (Winter): ii–iii
Constructions of Identity and War: A Reciprocal Relationship in Former Yugoslavia
Ginieczki, Taylor Sarah
Oregon Undergraduate Research Journal, 17 no. 1, 2020 (Spring): 19–28
Teaching
Head TA, “International Relations A: Theories of International Politics” (POU22021), Trinity College Dublin, 2023.
Head TA, “International Relations B: Topics and Treaties” (POU22022), Trinity College Dublin, 2024.
Visiting TA, “International Relations B: External Relations of the European Union in Comparative Context” (POU22022), Trinity College Dublin, 2025.