I am a DPhil student in International Relations at Merton College under the supervision of Patricia Owens. I am broadly interested in how military thought, and thought on war more generally, is constitutive of the International itself. My current project explores the intellectual history of hybrid war, examining its development as a political and intellectual project among Cold War-era defence intellectuals. My research is generously funded by the Clarendon Fund and Merton College.
My MPhil thesis analysed early Soviet military-political thought, applying insights from Foucauldian archaeology to examine how ostensibly technical military debates can be understood as sites of world-making and contestation over the epistemic and ontological categories of war.
I hold a BA from the University of Pennsylvania, where I graduated summa cum laude with majors in International Relations and Russian & East European Studies. I also hold an MA from the European University at St. Petersburg in Russian & Eurasian Studies, where I studied on a full scholarship. During my studies, I worked as a research assistant on various projects spanning medieval studies, Russian cultural studies, and political science.
Prior to Oxford, I worked as an adjunct lecturer at Collegium Civitas (now Uniwersytet Civitas) in Warsaw, Poland.
Research Interests
Disciplinary history and knowledge production in IR
Defence intellectuals and international thought on war
Poststructuralist and feminist approaches to historical inquiry
Russia-West relations
Languages
English (Native)
German (A1, Elementary)
French (~C1)
Polish (C2, Heritage)
Russian (C2, TORFL Certified)
Spanish (~B2, Heritage)
