Professor J. Chris Alden
Professor of International Relations
Deputy Head of Department (PhD and Research)
Director of LSE IDEAS
Room: Floor 9, Pankhurst House (PAN.9)
+44 (0)20 7955 7386
j.c.alden@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: Foreign Policy Analysis, China and Africa, South African foreign policy, post-conflict reconstruction
Professor Alden is not taking on new PhD students for entry in 2024/25.
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Dr Martin Bayly
Assistant Professor, International Relations Theory
Room: CBG.9.13
+44 (0)20 7107 5143
m.j.bayly@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: Historical International Relations, Historical Sociology, Constructivism
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Personal website
Dr Bayly is not taking on new PhD students for entry in 2024/25.
Dr Federica Bicchi
Associate Professor
Room: CBG.9.11
+44 (0)20 7955 7987
f.c.bicchi@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: European foreign policy, European External Action Service, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Euro-Mediterranean relations, The “practice turn” in International Relations
Profile
On leave academic year 2023/24.
Dr Bicchi is not taking on new PhD students for entry in 2024/25.
Dr Ida Roland Birkvad
LSE Fellow
Room: CBG.9.08
+44 (0) 20 7107 5362
i.birkvad@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: International relations theory, postcolonial theory, historical sociology, gender and sexuality studies, South Asia
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Not available to supervise MPhil/PhD students
Tarsis Brito
IRD Fellow
Room: CBG.9.01
t.d.sepulveda-coelho@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: Critical Race Theory; Mobility Studies; Political Geography; Migration; Posthumanism; Critical IR Theory; Postcolonialism; Border Dynamics; Sovereignty
Profile
Not available to supervise MPhil/PhD students
Dr Lucinda Cadzow
LSE Fellow
Room: CBG.8.10
+44 (0)20 7955 7387
l.cadzow@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: International Tax Governance, International Political Economy, Interest Groups, Transnational Regulation, Offshore Financial Centres, International Relations, Business in International Relations, Global Economic Governance
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Not available to supervise MPhil/PhD students
Professor William Callahan
Professor of International Relations
Room: CBG.9.05
+44 (0)20 7955 6973
w.callahan@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: Global politics of China, Visual international politics, documentary filmmaking, IR theory
Profile
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Professor Jeffrey Chwieroth
Professor of International Relations
Head of Department
Room: CBG.10.12
+44 (0)20 7955 7209
j.m.chwieroth@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: international political economy of money and finance
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Personal website
Professor Chwieroth is not taking on new PhD students for entry in 2024/25.
Dr Thomas Da Costa Vieira
LSE Fellow
Room: CBG.8.05
+44 (0)20 7955 7526
t.da-costa-vieira@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: Political economy of state, climate policy and alternatives to capitalism
Profile
Not available to supervise MPhil/PhD students
Dr Katerina Dalacoura
Associate Professor
Room: CBG.9.14
+44 (0)20 7955 7398
k.dalacoura@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: Islamist thought; Turkey; the Middle East and IR theory; the international politics of culture and religion; global IR
On leave academic year 2023/24.
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Dr Shikha Dilawri
LSE Fellow
Room: CBG.10.08
+44 (0)20 7955 7185
s.dilawri@lse.ac.uk
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Not available to supervise MPhil/PhD students
Professor Toby Dodge
Director of the Kuwait Programme in the Middle East Centre
Room: CBG.9.02
+44 (0)20 7955 6176
b.t.dodge@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: Iraq, Middle East, state formation, international relations, regime change
Profile
On leave academic year 2023/24.
Alice Engelhard
IRD Fellow
Room: CBG.9.14
a.engelhard@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: empire; violence; modernity; everyday politics; tourism; aesthetics; political ethics; power-knowledge relations; representation; knowledge production
Profile
Not available to supervise MPhil/PhD students
Professor Fawaz A. Gerges
Professor of International Relations
Programme Director, MSc International Relations
Room: CBG.10.03
+44 (0)20 7955 7393
f.gerges@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: International Relations Middle East, Domestic Politics Middle East States
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Dr Sinja Graf
Assistant Professor
Room: CBG.8.06
+44 (0)20 7107 5067
s.graf@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: International Theory, International Politlcal Thought, International (Criminal) Law and Imperialism, Violence and Global Order
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Dr Graf is not taking on new PhD students for entry in 2024/25.
Dr Caroline Green
ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow
c.green@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: Women’s rights, United Nations, colonialism, decolonisation, development
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Not available to supervise MPhil/PhD students
Dr Jürgen Haacke
Associate Professor
Room: CBG.9.01
+44 (0)20 7955 7399
j.haacke@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: International politics and security of Southeast Asia including great power relations, ASEAN regionalism and regional order, politics and foreign policy of Burma/Myanmar, foreign policy analysis
Profile
On leave Autumn and Winter Term 2023/24.
Dr Haacke is not taking on new PhD students for entry in 2024/25.
Dr Jonny Hall
LSE Fellow
Room: CBG.9.04
+44 (0)20 7106 1966
j.hall5@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: US foreign policy analysis, public opinion, war, international security
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Not available to supervise MPhil/PhD students
Dr Mirko Heinzel
Assistant Professorial Research Fellow
m.n.heinzel@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: International Political Economy, Global Governance, Health, Development
Profile
Personal website
Not available to supervise MPhil/PhD students.
Mr Mark Hoffman
Professor (Education)
Room: OLD.1.09
+44 (0)20 7107 5197
m.hoffman@lse.ac.uk
Research interests: Contemporary international relations theory, conflict analysis, mediation in international and civil conflicts.
Mr Hoffman is not taking on new PhD students for entry in 2024/25.
Dr Kira Huju
LSE Fellow
Room: CBG.9.08
+44 (0)20 7955 6807
k.huju@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: India, global order, liberal internationalism, Europe in the world
Profile
Personal website
Not available to supervise MPhil/PhD students
Dr Milli Lake
Associate Professor
Deputy Head of Department (Teaching and Learning)
Room: CBG.8.03
+44 (0)20 7955 7379
m.lake@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: Civil wars, political violence, security, state-building, rule of law
Profile
Personal website
Dr Lake is not taking on new PhD students for entry in 2024/25.
Professor Tomila Lankina
Professor in International Relations
Room: CBG.10.13
+44 (0)20 7107 5239
t.lankina@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: Democratization, Popular Protest, Russia, Eastern Europe
Profile
Personal website
Professor Lankina is not taking on new PhD students for entry in 2024/25.
Professor Jens Meierhenrich
Professor of International Relations
Room: CBG.10.04
+44 (0)20 7955 7394
j.meierhenrich@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: Rule of law, transitional justice, international criminal law, authoritarianism, genocide
Profile
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On leave academic year 2023/24.
Dr Katharine Millar
Associate Professor
Room: CBG.8.13
+44 (0)20 7955 6788
k.m.millar@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: Gender & international politics
Profile
Personal website
Dr Millar is not taking on new PhD students for entry in 2024/25.
Dr Irene Morlino
LSE Fellow
Room: CGB.10.07
+44 (0)20 7955 7062
i.morlino@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise:
EU humanitarian aid, EU-UN relations, EU security and defence; International Organisations (IOs)
Profile
Not available to supervise MPhil/PhD students
Dr James Morrison
Associate Professor
Programme Director, MSc IPE / IPE Research
Room: CBG.9.12
+44 (0)20 7955 7171
j.a.morrison@lse.ac.uk
Research interests: International political economy, ideas and intellectuals in foreign policy, international organisation, history of political and economic thought, British economic history, and early American history.
Personal website
Dr Rohan Mukherjee
Assistant Professor
Deputy Director of LSE IDEAS
Room: CBG.9.07
+44 (0)20 7955 6157
r.mukherjee@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: Rising Powers, International Order, International Security, Asia-Pacific
Profile
Personal website
Dr Mukherjee has limited capacity for new PhD students for entry in 2024/25.
Dr Natalya Naqvi
Assistant Professor
Room: CBG.8.01
+44 (0)20 7107 5189
n.naqvi@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: Economic development, role of the state, finance, industrial policy, globalisation
Profile
Personal website
On leave Winter Term 2024.
Dr Naqvi has limited capacity for new PhD students for entry in 2024/25.
Dr Victoria Paniagua
Assistant Professor
Room: CBG.8.14
+44 (0)20 7106 1965
v.paniagua@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: political economy, development, redistribution, inequality, interest group politics, state-building
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Dr Paniagua is not taking on new PhD students for entry in 2024/25.
Fabian Pape
LSE Fellow
Room: CBG.8.05
+44 (0)20 7107 5066
f.pape@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: Critical macrofinance, central banking, global finance, green transition
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Not available to supervise MPhil/PhD students
Dr McKenzie Ratner
LSE Fellow
Room: CBG.9.04
+44 (0) 7955 7167
m.m.ratner@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: International Institutions, International Political Economy, Compliance and Conditionality, Global Governance, Quantitative Methods
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Not available to supervise MPhil/PhD students
Dr Howie Rechavia-Taylor
LSE Fellow
Room: CBG.10.08
+44 (0)20 7955 6887
h.rechavia-taylor@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: Race and Empire; Jewish diasporic politics; Historical Anthropology/Sociology; Gender and Sexuality; Global Fascism; Postcolonial Europe
Profile
Not available to supervise MPhil/PhD students
Dr Stephanie Schwartz
Assistant Professor
Room: CBG.8.07
+44 (0)20 7955 6978
s.schwartz@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: Forced Migration, Peace and Conflict, African Politics, Qualitative Methods
Profile
Personal website
Dr Schwartz has limited capacity for new PhD students for entry in 2024/25.
Dr Giulia Sciorati
LSE Fellow
Room: CBG.10.01
+44 (0)20 7107 5694
g.sciorati@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: Narrative power; Visual international politics; Political instrumentalisation of historical memory; Cultural and heritage diplomacy; International Politics of China; China-Central Asia relations
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Not available to supervise MPhil/PhD students
Dr Ulrich Sedelmeier
Associate Professor (Reader)
Programme Director, Sciences-Po-LSE Double Degree in Affaires Internationales and IR/IPE
Room: CBG.10.02
+44 (0)20 7955 7166
u.sedelmeier@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: International institutions, European Union, compliance, conditionality
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Professor Karen E. Smith
Professor of International Relations
Room: CBG.10.14
+44 (0)20 7955 6332
k.e.smith@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: EU foreign policy, EU-UN relations, human rights, genocide, Brexit
Profile
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Dr Marta Soprana
LSE Fellow
Room: CBG.8.10
+44 (0)20 7955 7705
m.soprana@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: IPE, trade policy, global governance, digital trade, emerging technologies, artificial intelligence
Profile
Not available to supervise MPhil/PhD students
Dr Theresa Squatrito
Associate Professor
Room: CBG.8.08
+44 (0)20 7106 1213
t.j.squatrito@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: International organisations and law, international courts, global governance, civil society and NGOs, human rights
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Dr Dimitrios Stroikos
LSE Fellow
Room: CBG.10.07
+44 (0)20 7107 5264
d.stroikos@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: global politics of outer space activities, space policy and space security, China, India and Global Order, international relations of the Indo-Pacific, technology and International Relations
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Not available to supervise MPhil/PhD students
Dr Lauren Sukin
Assistant Professor
Room: CBG.9.06
+44 (0)20 7955 7171
l.sukin@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: International Security, Nuclear Weapons, Alliance Politics, Cybersecurity
Profile
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Dr Sukin has limited capacity for new PhD students for entry in 2024/25.
Dr Luca Tardelli
Assistant Professor (Education) and Departmental Tutor
Programme Director, BSc IR
Room: CBG.10.05
+44 (0)20 7107 5706
l.tardelli@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: International security, Military intervention, US foreign policy, Realism
Profile
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Dr Peter Wilson
Associate Professor
Room: CBG.10.11
+44 (0)20 7955 7391
p.c.wilson@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: International relations theory, especially the English school; the theory and practice of international relations during the interwar period.
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Dr Wilson is not taking on new PhD students for entry in 2024/25.
Alexandros Zachariades
IRD Fellow
Room: CBG.10.14
a.zachariades@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: Eastern Mediterranean; Middle East; International Relations Theory; Neoclassical Realism; geoeconomics; small states; Greece; Cyprus
Profile
Not available to supervise MPhil/PhD students
Dr Noah Zucker
Assistant Professor
Room: CBG.9.03
+44 (0)20 7106 1964
n.zucker@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: Political economy of climate change and decarbonization; politics of gender, ethnicity, and race; international organizations and global governance.
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Dr Zucker is not taking on new PhD students for entry in 2024/25.
Romy Mokogwu
Department Affairs Co-ordinator
Ask me about: Finances, HR and Recruitment, Departmental Policy and Processes, Facilities Management (incl Meeting room bookings)
Room: CBG.10.09
+44 (0)20 7955 3768
r.mokogwu@lse.ac.uk
More information about Romy
Andrew Sherwood
Department Manager
Ask me about: Strategy and development of the department, planning and management of departmental resources (human, financial and accommodation), inter-departmental communication, the PSS team and its development, quality assurance, compliance, legal issues and critical incidents.
Room: CBG.10.06
+44 (0)20 7852 3769 (ext: 3769)
a.sherwood@lse.ac.uk
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Dr Giovanni Angioni
Visiting Fellow
g.angioni@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: Political economy, welfare, redistribution, populism, polarisation, European politics, IPE, quantitative methods, migration, social mobility, statistical software
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Not available to supervise PhD students
Dr Mia Certo
Visiting Fellow
m.l.certo@lse.ac.uk
Profile coming soon
Not available to supervise PhD students
Hassan Damluji
Visiting Senior Fellow
h.m.damluji@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: Global Health, philanthropy, development finance, diplomacy, public attitudes
Profile
Not available to supervise PhD students
Dr Eyüp Ersoy
Visiting Fellow
e.ersoy1@lse.ac.uk
Profile coming soon
Not available to supervise PhD students
Dr Gubad Ibadoghlu
Visiting Senior Fellow
g.ibadoghlu@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: The political effects of natural resources in Caspian Sea Basin regions and the correlation between corruption and authoritarianism, rentier's state, and challenges for the transition into democracy.
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Not available to supervise PhD students
Dr Paul Kirby
Visiting Senior Fellow
p.c.kirby@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: Sexual violence, Gender, Women Peace and Security agenda, War Studies
Profile
Not available to supervise PhD students
Dr Anahita Motazed Rad
Visiting Senior Fellow
a.motazed-rad@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: Iran, Middle East Political Affairs, Development of Trans-Regional Powers Relations in the Middle East
Profile
Not available to supervise PhD students
Dr Jianyong Yue
Visiting Fellow
j.yue@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: Chinese politics and political economy, Chinese foreign policy, Sino-US relations, globalisation and development
Profile
Not available to supervise PhD students
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