CISRUL has funded PhD Students in a variety of disciplines at the University of Aberdeen. Some of these have already completed their PhD projects successfully. Please view their individual profile … Continue reading CISRUL alumni
Postdoctoral Researchers
Current postdoctoral researchers at CISRUL Visiting postdoctoral researchers at CISRUL Together with Denisse Román, 3 other postdoctoral researchers worked on the 2016-19 ESRC-funded CISRUL project, Activism in Regions of Crime-Related … Continue reading Postdoctoral Researchers
Engaging Authority: Citizenship and Political Community
The volume is based on a series of CISRUL workshops, and is under contract to be published in 2021 by Rowman & Littlefield International, in the Frontiers of the Political series … Continue reading Engaging Authority: Citizenship and Political Community
Hanifi Baris
LLB (School of Law, Baskent University, Ankara, Turkey); MA (Inter-Asia NGO Studies, Graduate School, Sungkonghoe University, Seoul, South Korea) PhD Candidate (Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society and Rule of Law, … Continue reading Hanifi Baris
Dr. Denisse Román-Burgos
Dr. Denisse Román-Burgos holds a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from El Colegio de Michoacán (Mexico). Her work draws from Historical and Political Anthropology, as well as Marxism. Her main areas … Continue reading Dr. Denisse Román-Burgos
About CISRUL
The Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society and Rule of Law (CISRUL) studies life in the world of political concepts. Our interdisciplinary centre examines how political principles function within and beyond … Continue reading About CISRUL
Bisrat Lemessa Kabeta
Bisrat is in his third year of PhD candidacy in political science at Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society and Rule of Law, University of Aberdeen. He holds two MA degrees: … Continue reading Bisrat Lemessa Kabeta
Maxim van Asseldonk
Maxim is a PhD candidate at the POLITICO programme on political concepts in the world, funded by a Marie Skłodowska-Curie scholarship. He recently published 'Who, the people? Rethinking constituent power … Continue reading Maxim van Asseldonk
Jorg Meurkes
Jorg is a PhD candidate at the POLITICO programme on political concepts in the world, funded by a Marie Skłodowska-Curie scholarship. He holds a bachelor’s degree in history and a … Continue reading Jorg Meurkes
Elise Boyle Espinosa
Elise has an interdisciplinary background in international studies and global development. Prior to commencing her PhD at the University of Aberdeen in the Marie Skłodowska-Curie funded POLITICO programme, she studied … Continue reading Elise Boyle Espinosa
Fredericke Weiner
Fredericke is a PhD student in the 2019 cohort of the POLITICO programme on political concepts in the world, funded by a Marie Skłodowska-Curie scholarship. In her PhD research, supervised … Continue reading Fredericke Weiner
Hanifi Bariş awarded Leverhulme Fellowship at CISRUL
We are delighted to announce the wonderful news that CISRUL alumnus, Hanifi Barış, has just been awarded a prestigious 3-year Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship to take up at CISRUL. Starting … Continue reading Hanifi Bariş awarded Leverhulme Fellowship at CISRUL
Nancy Postero
On 1 February 2019, CISRUL hosted a workshop on Autonomy, Sovereignty and Constitutional Change. Organised by Trevor Stack, Chuck Sturtevant and Valentin Clavé-Mercier, this workshop provided an opportunity to explore … Continue reading Nancy Postero
Daniel Matthews-Ferrero
Daniel is a European Studies graduate (BA from the University of Kent, UK; MA from the College of Europe, Poland). He is working on his PhD at the University of … Continue reading Daniel Matthews-Ferrero
Marie Wuth
Marie Wuth is a PhD student in Philosophy funded by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie PhD programme POLITICO and CISRUL (University of Aberdeen, UK) under the supervision of Dr Beth Lord and … Continue reading Marie Wuth
Valentin Clavé-Mercier
Valentin is currently conducting a PhD as a CISRUL Early Stage Researcher at the University of Aberdeen, thanks to a Marie Skłodowska-Curie scholarship. He holds a B.A. in Political Studies … Continue reading Valentin Clavé-Mercier
A. Sophie Lauwers
Sophie is a PhD candidate at the Department of Divinity, History and Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen. She is funded by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie POLITICO programme at the Centre … Continue reading A. Sophie Lauwers
Stephan Ritscher
Stephan studies political philosophy with a focus on the concept of the Political and started his PhD at CISRUL in October 2018. His PhD dissertation, supervised by Dr. Ritu Vij … Continue reading Stephan Ritscher
Visiting Scholars
One of CISRUL's core aims is to engage with scholars throughout the world and across disciplines. To this end, we host visiting scholars throughout our annual seminar series, and we … Continue reading Visiting Scholars
CISRUL Alumna Alena Thiel Awarded Postdoctoral Grant
Congratulations to CISRUL alumna Alena Thiel who completed her PhD in 2016. She has been awarded a postdoctoral grant in the DAAD PRIME fellowship scheme. Her new project “The production of measurement … Continue reading CISRUL Alumna Alena Thiel Awarded Postdoctoral Grant
Visit of Professor Jeffrey Alexander (Yale)
18th - 22nd October 2017 Hosted by Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society and Rule of Law (CISRUL) Jeffrey C. Alexander is the Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor of Sociology at Yale … Continue reading Visit of Professor Jeffrey Alexander (Yale)
Aditya Mohanty
Having sought a diverse academic training viz., in Sociology (2003-05) at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India and Urban Geography (2011-12) at University College London (UCL), UK, I … Continue reading Aditya Mohanty
Dikaia Gavala
Dikaia is starting the first year of her CISRUL PhD studentship at the University of Aberdeen in October 2017. She holds a BA in English Language and Literature (2009-2013), and … Continue reading Dikaia Gavala
CISRUL Lecture Series: Prof. William E. Connolly
The Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society & the Rule of Law (CISRUL) presents Prof. William E. Connolly, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University University of Aberdeen 8-11 May … Continue reading CISRUL Lecture Series: Prof. William E. Connolly
Joel Pierce
Joel joined CISRUL in January 2017 as a PhD student based in the School of Divinity, History and Philosophy. He was granted an MTh in Theological Ethics from the University … Continue reading Joel Pierce
Andreas S. Zaunseder
PhD Fellow at Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society and the Rule of Law Supervised by: Dr Cristina Flesher-Fominaya Dr Trevor Stack r02az16@abdn.ac.uk Fields of Interest Historical, Political and Economic Sociology, … Continue reading Andreas S. Zaunseder
Prospective PhD Students
CISRUL is building a vigorous community of PhD students who work closely with the academic staff and play an important role in all our activities. At CISRUL, we give great … Continue reading Prospective PhD Students
Dr. Alexander Crawford
Alexander is a third year PhD candidate in the School of Divinity, History, and Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen, and is currently funded by CISRUL and the St. Andrews … Continue reading Dr. Alexander Crawford
CISRUL Faculty Members
Founding members Current CISRUL faculty
Dr. Domenico Carolei
Since graduating from CISRUL, Domenico has secured a permanent post as lecturer in Public Law & Public International Law at the University of Stirling. He also recently signed a contract … Continue reading Dr. Domenico Carolei
Saerom Han
Saerom is a PhD candidate in Politics and International Relations funded by CISRUL (University of Aberdeen, UK) and holds an MA in Middle Eastern Politics (Graduate School of International Studies … Continue reading Saerom Han
Dr. Rose Luminiello
Rose is currently a Research Fellow at the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies (RIISS) at the University of Aberdeen and the Cushwa Centre for the Study of American … Continue reading Dr. Rose Luminiello
Dr. Augustinus Mohn
Augustinus did his PhD in Law, Politics and International Relations with CISRUL from 2014-2017, focusing on the role of human rights in German high strategic policy decision-making processes. His research … Continue reading Dr. Augustinus Mohn
Dr. Eve Hayes de Kalaf
Eve Hayes de Kalaf is a sociolegal scholar with an extensive academic and professional background working in Latin America and the Caribbean. She was Stipendiary Fellow at the Centre for … Continue reading Dr. Eve Hayes de Kalaf
Dr. James King
My bachelor's and master's degrees are in Christian theology. I came to Aberdeen to explore the secular in theological perspective, and after joining CISRUL refined this to a consideration of … Continue reading Dr. James King
Dr. Alena Thiel
I received my PhD in 2016 from the Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society and Rule of Law at the University of Aberdeen. My doctoral dissertation focuses on travelling concepts of … Continue reading Dr. Alena Thiel
Dr Hanifi Baris
Current Research Dr Baris’ current research focuses on experiments of council democracy launched by Kurdish movements in Turkey and Syria, and two indigenous movements, the Zapatistas and the town of … Continue reading Dr Hanifi Baris
Dr. Anna Grudzinska
Anna recently published a paper in a volume "Current Populism in Europe: Gender-Backlash and Counter-strategies" under the title "Make Misogyny Great Again. Anti-Gender Politics in Poland". A graduate of the … Continue reading Dr. Anna Grudzinska
Dr. Marek Szilvasi
Marek works as Program Officer with the Open Society Foundations’ Public Health Program (PHP), where he focuses on health law and equality. He also teaches at the Institute of Politics … Continue reading Dr. Marek Szilvasi
Chuck Sturtevant
I majored in anthropology as an undergraduate, but swore I would never return to academia and particularly not to such an esoteric and impenetrable field. However, in 2005 I moved … Continue reading Chuck Sturtevant
Dr. Ulisses Terto Neto
Current academic position State University of Goiás (UEG) (Anápolis, GO, Brazil)Professor of Law ulissestertoneto.ueg@gmail.com / ulisses.terto.neto@ueg.br +55 61 9 9178 7322 Academic qualifications Post-Doctorate in Human Rights – The Federal University … Continue reading Dr. Ulisses Terto Neto
Current PhD Projects
CISRUL’s PhD candidates represent a variety of disciplines, including sociology, law, race studies, international security studies, and history. Browse their individual profiles to learn more about their backgrounds, projects, and … Continue reading Current PhD Projects