Glad to see you here! It would be an honor to serve on the EISA Governing Board. Here is why I’m running:
The creation of EISA has been one of the most exciting developments that has happened to European International Relations in the past decade. After being involved in its activities in various capacities, I would be really glad to have an opportunity to contribute to its development. If elected to the EISA Governing Board, I would prioritize the following areas:
Strengthening multimodal and experimental methods in international studies
Building on my experience at Leiden University with ReCNTR (Leiden’s Center on Audio-visual and Multimodal Methods), and my role in the sections on International Political Design and Multimodal Methods and Visual IR, I would like to further EISA’s engagement with multimodal research methodologies, such as visual ethnography, critical coding or critical data visualization and computational methods. This means not only finding new ways of supporting, presenting and publishing multimodal work, but also establishing links with a broad range of interdisciplinary initiatives that could be highly relevant for international relations scholarship.
Further supporting opportunities for early-career and underrepresented scholars
I am committed to continuing the effort to provide mentorship programs, funding support, and publication avenues for early-career researchers, particularly those from underrepresented backgrounds and Global South institutions. The EISA can still do more to create an even playing field when it comes to access to funding, meeting, presentation and publication opportunities. This includes challenging stereotypes in both academic and policy circles while fostering productive communication of provocative research.
Bridging critical academic work and policy engagement
Based on my policy experience with European and international institutions, as well as collaboration with grassroots organizations, I would work towards creating stronger linkages between EISA’s scholarly network and policymakers (institutional and grassroots), ensuring that critical, alternative research findings translate into meaningful societal impact. This means debunking assumptions and stereotypes in both professional milieus and finding fruitful ways to communicate provocative research.
Sustaining EISA’s international reach and institutional resilience: At a time when academic freedom and funding for critical research face increasing pressures, I would advocate for sustainable strategies to maintain EISA’s position as a leading association in international studies.
In all these areas, I am eager to collaborate with fellow board members and the broader EISA community to ensure that the association continues to thrive as an inclusive, forward-looking platform for critical international studies. Thank you for your consideration.
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WHERE I WORK —-> I’m an associate professor in international relations at Leiden University, and the co-director of ReCNTR, a research center on audiovisual and multimodal methods in the arts, social science and humanities also based in Leiden. MORE
COURSES —-> I currently teach and have taught general introductions, as well as courses related to my main research interests, such as transnational communities and diasporas, critical security studies, international political sociology and more recently algorithmic security politics. MORE
RESEARCH —-> My work focuses on how the labels and categories governments use to manage people end up shaping their identities — and how those same people either embrace or push back against them. I’ve studied this in various contexts, such as the war in former Yugoslavia, the counter-radicalization policies of the past 15 years, and currently the algorithmic technologies of security. MORE
PUBLICATIONS —-> I happily explore all kinds of methods of research, from ethnography to large-scale surveys. Lately, I’ve been exploring digital and audiovisual methods, such as critical data visualization and visual ethnography, i.e. films. I generally publish academic papers and books, but occasionally write or present my work in less obscure formats. MORE
POLICY WORK —-> When people ask me for advice MORE