ECF Fellows
Ronan Love
Ronan Love is an Early Career Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), University of Warwick. He completed his PhD at Warwick’s History Department where he has taught modules on the history of European political thought and the history of the French Revolution. His thesis examines the politics of government finance during the French Revolution, ultimately arguing that the Revolution’s financial politics were a key factor in the origins of the Terror. Besides his doctoral work, Ronan’s research focuses more broadly on the nexus between the government finance, politics, and sovereignty in early modern Europe.
Manuela Marai
Manuela Marai is based in the Department of Classics and Ancient History but also collaborates with the School of Life Sciences, thanks to her double background in both Classics and Biology. She has recently completed her doctoral dissertation on ancient pharmacology, entitled Wound Healing Treatment in Galen: An Archaeology of Early Pharmacology and its Experimental Assessment. She is interested in ancient medicine, particularly in the works of Galen of Pergamon, and more broadly in the history of science and technology. Manuela employs a multidisciplinary approach by combining textual analysis of ancient medical writings with experimental methods. Through her collaboration with biologists and chemists, she investigates the antimicrobial properties of ancient formulations and how pharmacological substances were processed, combined, and used. She teaches Greek language as well as ancient pharmacology and Hellenistic science.
Nicolai Gellwitzki
Nicolai Gellwitzki is an Early Career Fellow who has recently completed his PhD at the Department of Politics and International Studies. His thesis, titled “Public Moods, Emerging Political Subjectivties, and Ontological Security: The German Response to the so-called Migration Crisis”, delves into how public moods influenced German ontological security-seeking practices at both micro and the macro levels during the so-called migration crisis. His research interests comprise (critical) security studies, political psychology, international political sociology, EU studies, and emotion research in Politics and International Relations. His research has been published, amongst others, in the Journal of International Relations and Development, Political Psychology, JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, and the Journal of European Public Policy.
Giulia Lorenzi
Giulia Lorenzi is an Early Career Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies and a Teaching Assistant in the Department of Philosophy at University of Warwick. Influenced by her musical practice as a horn player, her PhD research concerned the development of a philosophical account of the perception of music. She works at the intersection of philosophy of mind, perception, action, and music. For her teaching practice, she won the Warwick Award for Teaching Excellence in 2023 in the category “postgraduate who teach” and was commended for the same prize in 2022
Qiuyang Chen
Qiuyang Chen is a social and gender historian specialising in modern and contemporary China, with her research situated at the intersection of gender history, financial history and anthropology. In particular, her recently completed PhD examined the relationship between women’s credit activities and the local economy to understand China’s economic transformation in the 1980s and 90s. Currently, as an Early Career Fellow at IAS, She is working on a few articles derived from my PhD thesis, as well as developing a postdoctoral project on women's socio-economic roles in modern China by exploring the history of international development aid. She also plans to organise a cross-faculty, China-related research network at Warwick to encourage interdisciplinary collaboration and knowledge exchange. In addition,She is teaching at the University of Birmingham as a visiting lecturer this year.
Alice Golisano
As a PhD, She was a recipient of the EUTOPIA cotutelle scholarship. She was based in the Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Warwick, and the History department at Cergy-Paris Université. Her academic path started in Italy with a BA in English, German and Translation studies, and an Erasmus spent in Warwick, where she returned for an MA in Theatre and Performance Research, and then proceeded to be taken on board with my research project. Alongside my academic life, she have also been part of the European youth association AEGEE, and she is currently a student representative for the exec board of EASTAP (European Association for Studies in Theatre and Performance).
Richard Dhillon
Richard Dhillon is an Early Career Fellow at the University of Warwick’s Institute of Advanced Study, and teaches in the Department of Film and Television Studies. Richard recently completed his PhD in Film and Television Studies at Warwick, where he previously gained his MA (for Research); he also holds degrees in History from the Universities of Birmingham (MA) and Worcester (BA). Richard’s doctoral research, ‘Queer Domesticities in British Situation Comedies’, explored a queer seam at the heart of British prime-time television during the 1960s and 1970s, manifest in both the form and content of situation comedy. More broadly, Richard’s research interests lie at the intersection of British film and television histories, and queer studies, and he is currently developing post-doctoral research on British light entertainment television.
Noorin Rodenhurst
Noorin Rodenhurst completed her PhD in Psychology, in developmental psycholinguistics. Her research looks at child language acquisition between the ages of 3-6 years old. In her PhD, she examined the differences between bilingual and monolingual children’s ability to understand sentences. Her research also looks at codeswitching, namely children’s ability to understand switching between languages within sentences that have different word orders. Noorin is also interested in conducting research with those who speak understudied languages, to improve representation within linguistics, after researching the Gujarati language within her PhD.
Vladimir Rosas-Salazar
Vladimir Rosas-Salazar is an Early Career Fellow at the University of Warwick’s Institute of Advanced Study. Vladimir achieved an MA in Film and Screen Studies from Goldsmiths, University of London, and recently completed his PhD at the Department of Film and Television Studies (Warwick). His thesis focuses on Audiovisual Microhistories in Pinochet’s Chile, where he examines the use of amateur videos recorded by families and political video collectives during the last years of Pinochet’s dictatorship and the first years of Chile’s transition to democracy as visual evidence in documentaries. Overall, Vladimir’s research interests overlap film and media studies with memory studies, in the context of Latin America. He currently teaches at the Department of Film and Television Studies (Warwick).
Asma Abdi
Asma Abdi is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Advance Study (IAS) at the University of Warwick. Her research interests and experience revolve around the intersection of global political economy, feminist theory and post/decolonial approaches. She specialises in exploring the overlapping of gender and race concerning questions of labour, social reproduction, informal economies, neo-liberal capitalism, and women’s movements in the Global South, with a specific focus, so far, on the Middle East/Iran. Prior to her current position, she was an international Chancellor’s PhD scholar at the department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick, where she explored the shifting gendered dimensions of labour, social reproduction and survival in Iran following the intensification of the sanction regime on the country since the early 2010s. Bringing together the insights from both feminist International Political Economists (IPE) as well as feminist post/decolonial scholars, Asma's thesis also develops a decolonial and feminist understanding of economic sanctions as an under-explored tool of international coercion and order-building.
Adam Neal
Adam Neal is an Early Career Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study and an Early Career Teaching Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Teaching and Learning at the University of Warwick, where he teaches on the IATL module Global Connections. His Leverhulme Trust funded PhD thesis concerns the social and interpersonal implications of poverty and understanding poverty using the capability approach. He has published on the philosophy of work and the ethics of relationships. He has co-edited a collection on social rights published with Oxford University Press, as well as published on the impact of the UK Government’s COVID-19 response on people who live alone. He has also lectured on the Ethics of Sociability, and is a member of the Centre for Ethics, Law and Public Affairs.
Esteban Catalán
Esteban Catalán is a Chilean researcher, author, journalist and translator. He gained his BSc in Social Communication at Universidad de Santiago, before working as a journalist and editor at Radio Cooperativa. He then completed an MFA in Creative Writing in Spanish at New York Universty and a PhD in Hispanic Studies at the University of Warwick. His doctoral project, End of the World Redux, focuses on the transition of language transiton at the beginning of the artificial intelligence era. He has published Eslovenia (2014), a collection of short stories, and Los límites y el mar (2022), a novel, both with Montacerdos publishing house, as well as the non-fiction volume Tragar veneno (2023), with Tusquets.
Simon Gansinger
Simon is an Early Career Fellow at the IAS and a Teaching Assistant at the Department of Philosophy. In his doctoral thesis, "Reasons of state as reasons of law", he proposed a new way of looking at legal changes that are not sufficiently justified by legal rules. Situated at the intersection of political philosophy, jurisprudence, and critical theory, Simon's work examines the relationship between politics and law, in contexts such as adjudication, emergency powers, and the history of political thought. Simon also maintains a scholarly interest in antisemitism studies and psychoanalysis. His research has been published in Jurisprudence, Archives for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (Supplement), and Antisemitism Studies, among others. He currently co-edits Pli: The Warwick Journal of Philosophy and an Adorno Studies special issue on "Law and sexual morality today."
Hannah Dennett
Hannah is a PhD candidate in the Department of History, and an Early Career Fellow with the Institute of Advanced Study. Her PhD project was in partnership with the Foundling Museum, London. It uncovered the lives of children of colour taken into the eighteenth-century Foundling Hospital, using fragments of their lives from the archival material to reconstruct their experiences. It also examined the institution’s position within the British Empire, through the colonial connections of its governors and benefactors. As part of her PhD, Hannah curated the exhibition Tiny Traces: African and Asian Children of London’s Foundling Hospital’ at the Foundling Museum, London. Her broader research interests include the histories of motherhood, experiences of care, and Britain’s imperial past.
Niels Boender
Niels recently completed his doctoral thesis in Warwick’s History Department on local politics and anti-colonial rebellion in Kenya. It emphasises the interactions between colonial counterinsurgency and post-colonial politics, using newly revealed archival material and oral history interviews. His work has thus far been published in the Journal of Social History, the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, and the Journal of Museum Ethnography. He continues to work with the Imperial War Museum, consulting on their upcoming Empire and Conflict season.
Elena Mylona
Elena Mylona has successfully defended her doctoral thesis in Sociology at the University of Warwick (ESRC-funded). She is currently an Early Career Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study, University of Warwick, and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Time Use Research, UCL. Her research focuses on time use, adolescent health, and advanced quantitative methods. Elena has published in the Journal of Time Use Research, has produced data management guides for the Centre for Time Use Research and Centre for Longitudinal Studies, UCL, and contributed to reports for the Social Mobility Commission and the What Works Centre for Wellbeing. Elena became as Associate Fellow of the HEA in 2021, and has experience in delivering lectures, seminars and data workshops, quantitative methods mentoring, as well as dissertation supervision and marking.
Eugene Malthouse
Eugene completed his PhD in the Department of Psychology at the University of Warwick. His thesis focused on collective action problems, which describe situations such as climate change in which individual and group interests are misaligned. His research spans psychology, economics, and philosophy. For more details please see his personal website.
Xuxu (Lawrence) Wu
Xuxu (Lawrence) Wu earned his PhD in Physics from the University of Warwick. He is also a gemologist and holds membership in the Gemmological Association of Great Britain (Gem-A). He has been deeply involved in the field of diamond science and technology over 8 years. His expertise encompasses diamond-related knowledge, optical and magnetic spectroscopy, and spatial data analysis. His career goal is to make diamond great again: by making CVD synthetic diamond a genuine super material for industrial and high-tech applications.
Wenyuan Liu
Wenyuan Liu is a PhD student at the Centre for Research in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (CIDD), University of Warwick. Funded by Chancellor’s International Scholarship of the University of Warwick, his PhD explores psychosocial adjustment in families of children with autism from UK and Chinese contexts. As an IAS Early Career Fellow, he is currently working on publishing his thesis studies and disseminating research publications. He also aims to build an autism, ethnicity, and culture research network to bring together early career researchers from multiple disciplines to better understand the role of ethnicity and culture in autism research.
Lance Hayward
I am an Early Career Fellow in Warwick's Institute of Advanced Study, and a PhD candidate and Senior Graduate Teaching Assistant in Film and Television Studies. My doctoral thesis, which was funded by an M4C/AHRC studentship, was entitled The Documentary Serial: Forms and Implications. It concerned the formal and narrative intersection of serialisation and television documentary modes of representation. I am currently working on turning my thesis into a book, and developing articles based on areas adjacent to my PhD research, including one on performance and deception in reality-game programmes.