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Jacquelene Mwangi

Graduate Associate

Jacquelene Mwangi is a Kenyan scholar of law, politics, and economy. She is currently an S.J.D. Candidate Graduate Program Fellow, LL.M Advisor at Harvard Law School. Her interests lie at the intersection of law, technology, and innovation theories. Her doctoral work centers on the historical and current political theories of technologies in Sub-Saharan African societies, and its evolving relationship with rules and institutions, the state, and society.

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Tatiana Pignon

Graduate Associate

Tatiana Pignon is a PhD candidate in Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge. Her dissertation explores the international politics of cities and the reconfigurations of political agency and legitimacy in the global age, in light of the problem of building a liveable world for all. Her research interests include global political theory, the history of revolutions (particularly the French Revolution and the Paris Commune), feminist theory and urban studies. Before her PhD, she worked in government for several years as a political adviser and speechwriter, and she continues to serve as a consultant. At Cambridge, she was also Editor-in-Chief of the Cambridge Review of International Affairs.

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Sarath Pillai

Graduate Associate

Sarath Pillai is a PhD candidate in the History Department at the University of Chicago. He holds a Master of Studies in Law from Yale Law School. His research examines a range of legal and political ideas about sovereignty, state, nationalism, democracy, and rights as they came to cluster around the demand for an All-Indian Federation in late colonial India. Translation and circulation of constitutional ideas and interwar legal and political thought are of special interest to him. He was a Fellow at the Hurst Institute for Legal History at University of Wisconsin-Madison and is currently a Dissertation Fellow at the Center for International Social Science Research at UChicago. His writings have appeared in both peer-reviewed and public forums like Law and History Review, Archives and Records, Economic and Political Weekly, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Diplomat, Scroll.in among others.

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Niklas Plaetzer

Graduate Associate

Niklas is a PhD student in political theory at the University of Chicago and Sciences Po Paris. Since 2020, he has also been affiliated with the Centre Marc Bloch, a Franco-German research center in Berlin. Niklas works on contemporary political theory and the history of political thought, with a focus on theories of radical democracy and the global legacies of revolutionary republicanism. His dissertation aims to recover the institutional imagination of “plebeian internationalists” in France, Germany, the U.S., and Brazil (ca. 1848-1888). Niklas’ article “Decolonizing the ‘Universal Republic’: The Paris Commune and French Empire” appeared in Nineteenth-Century French Studies.

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Zineb Riboua

Graduate Associate

Zineb Riboua is a research assistant at the Center for Jewish Civilization at Georgetown University, a Master of Public Policy Candidate at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University, and she studied at HEC Paris where she focused on management. She worked on Middle East issues in Washington D.C., and has founded a non-profit platform: China in MENA Project. A writer and artist, Zineb regularly publishes her work on her website (https://zinebriboua.substack.com), exploring various contemporary cultural and philosophical issues.

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Merisa Bahar Şahin

Graduate Associate

A PhD Candidate in Political Theory at the University of Michigan, Merisa Bahar Şahin is currently writing her dissertation, Anticolonial Cosmopolitanisms: Young Ottoman Anticolonial Thinkers and Projects of Global Integration,” which examines early projects of decolonization by exiled Ottoman intellectuals from 1878 to 1909, spearheaded by Ahmed Rıza Bey and Prens Sabahaddin.

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David Suell

Graduate Associate

David Suell is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Michigan. His research focuses on African political thought, anticolonialism, philosophy of time, and critical theory. David’s dissertation, “Temporalities of Struggle: African Political Thought and Contesting the Foundations of Colonial Capitalism,” brings these elements together in order to rethink the relationships among time, power, and political membership.

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Omer Topal

Omer Topal

Graduate Associate

Omer Topal is a Ph.D. candidate in the Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. His research interests include the nineteenth century Ottoman modernization, social and political history of the Middle East, Arabian Peninsula and the Persian Gulf. His articles appeared in British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, and Turkish Studies. His contribution to the inaugural Conference of the Association for Global Political Thought, "Ottoman Internationalism" is published in International History Review

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Gülin Ustabaş

Graduate Associate

Gülin is a Ph.D. student in Political Theory at the Department of Politics at Princeton University. Her research interests include global political institutions, sovereignty, territorial justice, duties to the land and environment, and Indigenous political thought. She holds a B.A. in Philosophy and Political Science (with distinction) from Stanford University.

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Christie van Tinteren

Graduate Associate

Christie van Tinteren is an anthropologist researching relationships between industrial change, time, memory, and inequality in rural Britain. Currently finishing his PhD at the University of Cambridge, his thesis examines a fishing town and two villages on the Cornish coast. On top of his present-day ethnographic work, he has gathered dozens of memoirs and diaries, written over the past 150 years in these locations. With these records, he is reconstructing insights into the socioeconomic, infrastructural, and political development of the area.

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Anna Wherry

Anna Wherry

Graduate Associate

Anna Wherry is a Ph.D. student in anthropology at Johns Hopkins University and holds a J.D. from Yale Law School. Her research has examined the circulation of legal concepts and the development of criminal jurisprudence across the Americas, especially in Colombia and the United States. More recently, she has investigated the movement of prisoners between both countries. She is currently a post-graduate fellow with Yale’s Lowenstein Center for International Human Rights. As a fellow, she provides legal assistance to former FARC combatants at Colombia’s transitional court, the Special Jurisdiction for Peace.

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Yidi Wu

Yidi Wu (吳一笛)

Graduate Associate

Yidi Wu is a doctoral student in the Religion in Philosophy, Politics, and Society specialization at Boston University, Department of Religion. His areas of interest include comparative religious thought, medieval Islamic and Jewish thought, theological and philosophical roots of modernity, and Jewish intellectual history with a particular focus on the thought of Leo Strauss. Yidi has a BA in Classics from the Renmin University of China, MA in Classics from the University of Arizona, and MA in Political Science at Boston College.

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