Polina Whitehouse is a second-year MPhil student in political theory. Supervised by David Leopold, she is working on a thesis that defends the holistic and systematic dimensions of utopia, understood as a method for political theory. Previously, she completed her bachelor's degree in Social Studies at Harvard University, where she wrote a thesis on restorative justice as a participatory democratic practice.

I am a Departmental Lecturer in International Relations in the Department of Politics and International Relations and an Associate Member of St Antony's College. Prior to joining DPIR, I was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Centre for Digital Cultures and Societies at the University of Queensland. I completed my PhD at the University of Queensland under the supervision of Christian Reus-Smit, funded by an Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities doctoral scholarship.