About
Taylor Sarah Ginieczki is a PhD student in the Department of International Relations at LSE. Her dissertation investigates the evolution of American nuclear strategic thought, tracing the US’s contested relationship with vulnerability and the influence of disciplinary history on strategy-making. More broadly, her research interests centre IR theory, nuclear politics, and intellectual and disciplinary history.
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, Ireland and taught at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland for two years as an International Politics Head Teaching Assistant and Teaching Associate.
Research topic
Atomic Intelligentsia: Vulnerability, Rationality, and American Nuclear Strategic Thought
Academic supervisors
Research Cluster affiliation
Security and Statecraft research cluster
Taylor has been funded by an LSE Studentship.
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.