Fidelia Danielle Renne

Dr Fidelia Danielle Renne is a Research Associate in Middle East Politics in the Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR) at the University of Oxford, and Lecturer at King’s College London in Social Movements and the Political Economy of the Middle East. She completed her doctorate in International Development at the Oxford Department of International Development (ODID). Her research examines social movements, community development, and civil society networks, with particular attention to associational life, friendship, identity negotiation, and political engagement in the Global South.

Her work is grounded in long-term qualitative research on post-conflict and marginalised communities. She has conducted extensive research in Lebanon on post-war youth, identity formation, place-making, and mobilisation, and is currently undertaking research in Tunisia on indigenous anti-pollution movements and local resistance practices. Across these contexts, her work explores how everyday social relations shape political participation and post-conflict social cohesion. She specialises in the use of participatory and ethnographic methods for political study.

Dr Renne is currently leading a project on environmental activism in North Africa as a recipient of the Hazem Ben-Gacem Research Grant (St Antony's College) for collaborative research in Tunisia. Prior to her current role, she served as Departmental Lecturer in Middle East Politics at DPIR, where she convened the undergraduate course Politics in the Middle East and the postgraduate course Social Movements, Revolution, and Protest. She has also taught on development studies and political economy at ODID.