Academic Staff in Department of Politics, Philosophy and International Relations

Members of the School of Politics, October 2007

Members of the Department of Politics, Philosophy and International Relations, October 2007

Professor Alison Assiter - BA (Bristol); B.Phil.(Oxon); D.Phil. Sussex
Research Interests: Enlightenment Philosophy, Feminist theory, Feminism and Pornography, Feminist theories of knowledge.

Dr Nick Buttle
BA, MA, PhD Lancaster, Senior Lecturer
Research interests: The ethics of nationalism, global justice, and Roman cosmopolitanism

Dr Jose Caballero
BS, MA, PhD (Warwick), Senior Lecturer
Research interests: Latin American politics, Development Theory, Regional Integration Theory, Theory of the State, Elite Networks and Normative Power

Dr Havi Carel - Senior Lecturer; BA, MA Tel-Aviv, PhD (Essex) .
Research interests: European philosophy, the metaphysics of death, psychoanalysis, philosophy and literature, evolutionary theory.

Dr Dimitri Christopoulos
BA American College, Athens, PhD Glasgow, Senior Lecturer
Research interests: Regional elites in Europe and their role in regional development, networks of political and business actors, networks of innovation dissemination

Dr Peter Clegg
BA, MSc, PhD Southampton, Senior Lecturer
Research interests: Political economy, politics of the Caribbean region

Dr Kate Flynn
BA Berkeley, University of California, DPhil Oxford, Senior Lecturer
Research interests: Nationalism, ethnicity and race, the politics of contested and public history, transitional justice

Dr Iain Grant
PhD (Warwick), Lecturer
Research interests: European philosophy and social theory, cultural theory, cyber-culture, postmodern philosophy and science.

Dr Alan Greer (Acting Head of Department)
BA, PhD Belfast, Reader
Research interests: The policy and politics of agriculture, Irish politics

 

Dr Lisa Harrison (Acting Head of Department)
BA Plymouth, MA Sussex, PhD Plymouth, Principal Lecturer; SSH Faculty Student Experience Director
Research interests: electoral politics, youth and political participation, Women and politics

Professor Paul Hoggett
BA Sussex, Professor of Politics
Research interests: Emotions and the unconscious in politics, New Public Management

Dr Ed Lock
BA, PhD Queensland, Lecturer
Research interests: Strategic and Security Cultures, US Security Policy, Theories of International Relations

Dr Dean McSweeney
BA Exeter, MA Essex, PhD Glasgow, Principal Lecturer; Head of Department - on research leave
Research interests: American parties and elections

Dr Rebecca Richards
BA (Illinois College); MA (Lancaster); PhD (Bristol)
Research interests: Governance and development; state-building and state formation; unrecognised states; normative conditionality of statehood; Somalia and Somaliland

Dr John Sellars
BA (Wales), MA, PhD (Warwick), Senior Lecturer
Research interests:
Ancient Philosophy (esp. Stoicism), Early Modern Philosophy

Dr Simon Thompson
BA Kent, MPhil., D.Phil., Oxford, Reader
Research interests: The politics of recognition, deliberative democracy, the politics of multiculturalism

Dr Christien van den Anker
MA Amsterdam, PhD Essex, Reader
Research interests: Global justice, human rights, the new slavery

Dr Günter Walzenbach
B.A. (Heidelberg), M.A. (Essex), Ph.D. (EUI, Florence), Senior Lecturer
Research interests: European Governance, Comparative Political Economy 

Dr Sean Watson - BA(Hons), PhD, Principal Lecturer
Research Interests: Social theory, sociology of affect, complex-systems, neurosociology, continental philosophy.