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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