EMPLOYMENT      

Sept 2006 to present   UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX

Senior Lecturer in International Relations

  

Sept 2002 to Aug 2006   SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES

Lecturer in International Studies and Diplomacy

Sept 2001 to Jul 2002    LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE

Tutorial Fellow in International Relations

 

EDUCATION

1997 to 2002 LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS

PhD in International Relations

Thesis Title: Exploring the Ontological Basis of Coexistence in International Relations: Subjectivism, Heidegger, and the Heteronomy of Ethics and Politics

Supervised by:    Mr. Mark Hoffman, LondonSchool of Economics

Research panel:  Mr. Mark Hoffman, Dr. Erica Benner and Prof. Margot Light

Examined by:     Prof. Nicholas J. Rengger, University of St. Andrews

                                Prof. David Owen, University of Southampton

1996 to 1997  LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS

MSc (ECON) Politics of the World Economy

Dissertation Topic: Offshore Financial Centres and Institutional Competition with special reference to Cyprus’s accession to the European Union

1990 to 1994  GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY, Washington, DC

EDMUND A. WALSH SCHOOL OF FOREIGN SERVICE

BSc Foreign Service, Magna cum Laude

Certificate, International Business Diplomacy 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES & AFFILIATIONS

MILLENNIUM: JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES, 1997-1998

  • Editor Vol 27, No. 4  Special Anniversary Issue:  ‘Gendering “the international”’  
  • Deputy Editor 
  • Organiser, ‘Gender and International Studies’,  Xth Anniversary Conference

BRITISH INTERNATIONAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION, Member since 1997

INTERNATIONAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION (US), Member since 1999

 

CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES

23-26 July 2008 - Second World International Studies Conference, Ljubjlana, Slovenia

  • Presented 'Iconographies of Enmity: Ethics and Obligation in Carl Schmitt’s Theory of the Partisan'
  • Organised two panels on the international thought of Carl Schmitt and its difficulties for international relations

26-29 March 2008 - 49th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, San Francisco

  • Presented 'Against Ethics: Iconographies of Enmity and Acts of Obligation in Carl Schmitt's Theory of the Partisan'

25 March 2008 - Pre-ISA workshop on 'Revising the Status of Liberal Internationalism'

  • Presented 'Liberalism’s War, Liberalism’s Order: Rethinking the Global Liberal Order as a ‘Global Civil War’'

12-15 Sept 2007 -  Sixth Pan-European International Relations Conference of SGIR, Torino

  • Presented 'Violence after the State? A Preliminary Examination of the Concept of "Global Civil war"'

25-30 Apr 2006 - European Consortium for Political Research, Joint Sessions, Nicosia, Cyprus

  • Presented ‘Constituting Community: Heidegger, Mimesis and Critical Belonging’ in Workshop 7: The future of political community convened by Jens Bartelson and Gideon Baker

 9 - 11 Sept 2004 – Fifth Pan-European International Relations Conference of SGIR, The Hague

  • Organised a conference section made up of eight panels on the international political thought of Carl Schmitt. Papers by Gary Ulmen, Chantal Mouffe, Mitchell Dean, Howard Williams, Chris Brown, Danilo Zolo, etc.
  • Presented ‘Über Die Linie? Carl Schmitt and Martin Heidegger on the Line(s) of Cosmopolitanism and the War On Terror’

22 May 2004 - BISA Working Group in Contemporary Research in International Political Theory, LSE

  • Presented ‘Heidegger and International Political Theory: Paths, not Works’

14 May 2004 - BISA Post-structuralist Politics Working Group Workshop, SOAS

  • Organised a one-day workshop on the theme Global Civil Society and Local Activism: Post-structuralism and Praxis for the BISA Post-structuralist Politics Working Group. Papers by Bice Maiguascha, David Chandler, Hakan Seckinelgin and Tadzio Mueller.

17 - 20 Mar 2004 - 45th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, Montreal, Canada

  • Presented ‘Activism, Dissent and Webs of Meaning: Rethinking the Relationship Between the ‘Local’ and the ‘Global’ in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve’
  • Organised panel entitled Activism and Practices of Dissent in Global Politics: Inter-disciplinary and Critical Perspectives
  • Chaired panel entitled Imperial Moments? Governmentality, Biopower, and the Crisis of/in IR
  • Discussed panel entitled Beyond Power/Knowledge: Politics as Biopolitics. Papers by Michael Shapiro, Jef Huysmans, Nick Hall, Patricia Molloy

25 Feb - 1 Mar 2003 - 44th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, PortlandOR

  • Presented ‘Mapping a New Cosmo-politics? Invocations of “Bhopal”, Practices of the Global’

16-18 Dec 2002 - British International Studies Association, Annual Conference, LSE, London

  • Presented ‘A Renewed Cosmopolitanism? Hearing and Silence as Constitutive Conditions of Selfhood’
  • Presented ‘The Paradoxical Centrality of Coexistence in the Ontological Commitments of IR’
  • Organised panel entitled From Inter-national Relations to Cosmo-politics: Reflections on New Political Forms

24-27 Mar 2002 - 43rd Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, New Orleans, LA

  • Presented ‘On the Way to Global Ethics? Cosmopolitanism, Ethical Selfhood and Otherness’
  • Presented ‘Laughing Matters: Peace, Democracy and the Challenge of the Comic Narrative’
  • Discussed panel entitled Science Fiction and IR: World Politics in Popular Fantasies
  • Organised panel entitled Globalisation and the Cosmopolitan Political Project: Critical Reflections

8-10 Sept 2001 - European Consortium of Political Research / 4th Pan- European SGIR Joint Conf., Canterbury

  • Presented ‘Recovering the Ethical Self in Global Ethics: Away from Rules, Towards Propriety

25 May 2001 – Millennium Conference on Images & Narratives of World Politics, LSE

  • Presented ‘Laughing Matters: Peace, Democracy and the Challenge of the Comic Narrative’

20-24 Feb 2001 - 42nd Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, Chicago, IL

  • Presented ‘Radical Phenomenology, Ontology and International Political Theory’
  • Co-organised panel entitled Genealogy, Phenomenology and Deconstruction: Towards Methodological Pluralism in International Theory

21 May 2000 - Contemporary Research in International Political Theory Working Group, Aberystwyth

  • Discussed a paper entitled ‘On The Responsibility Of External Bystanders In Genocide’

20-22 Dec 1999 - British International Studies Association, Annual Conference, UMIST, Manchester

  • Presented ‘Ontology, Otherness and Coexistence in World Politics’

16-20 Feb 1999 - 40th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, Washington, DC

  • Presented ‘Dangerous Ontologies: Unconcealing the Ethics of Survival’ 

3 Feb 1999 - King’s College London, War Studies Research Colloquium

  • Presented ‘Dangerous Ontologies: Unconcealing the Ethics of Survival’

14-16 Dec 1998 - British International Studies Association, Annual Conference, Brighton

  • Presented, ‘The Ethics of Heteronomy and International Relations’