Iuliana (Julie) Nyerges is a DPhil Politics student at Balliol College. Her research focuses on political behaviour, democracy, far-right politics, populism and democratic (re)consolidation in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Julie's doctoral project is going to investigate the nature of democratic reconstruction policy in countries where democratic erosion is taking place, as well as its impact on opposition party strategy and support. Her research is generously funded by the Economic Social and Research Council (ESRC) Grand Union DTP and the Snell Exhibition.

I am a DPhil in Political Theory at Corpus Christi College and the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford.

My work sits at the crossroads of intellectual history, black critical theory and methodology in political thought. My DPhil project focuses on the methods used by black scholars after the black studies movement. In particular, I am interested in the twin concepts of 'interdisciplinarity' and 'disciplinarity' and how they have been influential in both normative philosophy and Caribbean history.