Please join us in welcoming a number of new staff members to the school.
Neema Begum is a political scientist researching ethnic minority voting, political participation and representation. Neema obtained her PhD at the University of Bristol. Her thesis investigated Race and Identity in Voting in the 2016 EU Referendum.
Neema joins us from the University of Manchester. Prior to this she taught at the University of Bristol in Political Science and Comparative Politics. She has also worked as Research Assistant on the ESRC-funded project #BristolBrexit - A City Responds to Brexit.
Prior to joining the University of Nottingham, Michelle was a Junior Research Fellow in Politics at New College, University of Oxford. She also completed her PhD in politics at Oxford.
Michaela’s research comprises three overlapping strands -the political economy of authoritarian rule and authoritarian political institutions (parties and legislatures); authoritarian strategies for urban dominance, urban informal labour markets, labour organising and cooperatives; and the history and politics of sub-Saharan Africa, particularly east Africa
Michaela's PhD and forthcoming book examine variation in ruling party cohesion and legislative assertiveness across Africa's dominant party regimes.
Kevin Fahey joins us from Swansea University, where he worked as a Lecturer. Before that, he was a Research Fellow at Cardiff University in the School of Law and Politics. He obtained his PhD from Florida State University in 2017.
His research interests focus on the effects of institutions, and institutional reforms, on the behaviour of political elites. His research has been published in journals including Legislative Studies Quarterly, Electoral Studies, and the State Politics & Policy Quarterly. Beyond this research agenda, Kevin works on interdisciplinary projects and has been published in European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry and the Journal of East Asian Studies. Kevin's teaching interests include undergraduate quantitative research methods, legislative politics, and subnational politics.
Jason’s research and teaching interests primarily lie at the intersection of political violence and repression, with particular attention to the role of religion. His current book project explores how states construe and respond to religious insurgencies. Jason also has ongoing projects on the influence of religion on rebel organisational structure, U.S. foreign policy, nonviolent resistance, and Covid-19 vaccine engagement.
Before joining us here at the University of Nottingham, Jason served as a senior researcher at the United States Institute of Peace and a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Notre Dame. He received a PhD and MA in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley, as well as an MA in Conflict Resolution from Georgetown University.
Tyler Kustra is an assistant professor here in the School of Politics and International Relations. He uses statistical analysis and mathematical modelling to understand political violence and economic sanctions. Tyler holds a doctorate in politics and an MA in economics.
Before coming to Nottingham, he was a visiting fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University and previously served as an economic adviser to the Parliament of Canada.
Anna Meier joined the School of Politics and International Relations in September 2021 after completing her PhD at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Prior to her academic career, she worked for the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism and the Project On Government Oversight in Washington, DC.
She specialises in racialisation within security institutions and has published on these subjects. Her current book project, The Idea of Terror: White Supremacist Violence and the Making of Counterterrorism, investigates the failure of major acts of white supremacist violence to produce policy change. This autumn, she is teaching on Theories and Concepts in International Relations within the School's PGT curriculum.
Professor Zoe Trodd is Director of the Rights Lab, a university Beacon of Excellence attached to the Faculty of Social Sciences and the world's largest and leading group of modern slavery scholars. Her research focuses on strategies for ending global slavery by 2030.
She has a PhD and MA from Harvard University and a BA from the University of Cambridge. She has been a Kennedy Fellow at Harvard University, an ACLS/Mellon Fellow, a research fellow at UNC Chapel Hill, and a research fellow at Yale University's Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Abolition and Resistance.
She edits a book series for Cambridge University Press called Slaveries Since Emancipation. She was included in the most recent list of the UK Top100 Modern Slavery Influencers, and cited as one of Nottinghamshire's "inspirational women."
Posted on Tuesday 19th October 2021