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Biography
Harry joined the Department in September 2025 as a Teaching Associate in International Relations. Previously, he worked as Teaching Fellow at University College Dublin and as a Lecturer at the University of Exeter. My research explores how Salafi-Jihadist groups engage with concepts which are fundamental to the discipine of International Relations, such as sovereignty, statehood, and nationalism. My PhD at Leeds explored the Islamic State's construction of its strategic narratives of sovereignty and political legitimacy in its English language propaganda while my current research projects focus on the Islamic State's construction and articulation of masculinity and comparing how the Islamic State and Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham understand and engage with nationalism and 'the nation'.
I have previously published in Critical Studies on Terrorism and co-hosted 'Insecure: A Security Podcast alongside my colleague, Dr Marine Gueguin: https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/6475133dd6f8390011ccf9fc.
Expertise Summary
- Critical Terrorism Studies/ Terrorism
- Salafi-Jihadism
- Security Studies
- Sovereignty
- Critical Constructivism
Teaching Summary
I am currently teaching on:
POLI1017 Understanding Global Politics
POLI3097 Secret Intelligence and International Security
POLI2049 International Politics in the 20th Century
POLI3130 Political Violence
I have previously taught on a wide range of topics across the discipline of International Relations, including: international politics; international relations theory/ies; international security; security studies; terrorism; political violence; and comparative politics.