Faisal researches the Political Economy of Islam in Nigeria. He also serves as a Senior Strategy Analyst at Harvard University.
Before starting his doctorate, Faisal was a senior administrator at Zaytuna College in Berkeley, CA, and a Senior Strategy Consultant with Monitor Deloitte. He earned his BA from Yale and MA from Johns Hopkins SAIS.
I am a PhD student at DPIR at the University of Oxford.
My research focuses on the fields of identity politics, comparative political economy, and political behaviour, with a geographical focus on Western European countries. Methodologically, my research employs surveys, laboratory experiments, and causal inference.
Overall, my current research encompasses the following topics.
public opinion's nuances on immigration and positive attitudes towards immigrants;
Daniel Lane is a first year DPhil student in European Politics at New College. His research interests include coalition politics, political behaviour, party politics and populism in Southern Europe.
Ben studies the potential for artificial intelligence (AI) to trigger a world war and how to prevent that from happening.
In particular, he studies AI-triggered military power shifts, the causes of war, and the international governance of AI (e.g., institutions to enable a global AI market)—with a particular focus on verification.
I am a first-year MPhil International Relations student at St Edmund Hall. I am broadly interested in Israeli politics, international law, and US foreign policy in the Middle East. I graduated with a BA in History and International Relations from Trinity College, University of Toronto, in 2023.
I am a doctoral candidate in Politics at Somerville College studying conflict and political transitions in post-colonial Africa. My project examines the political roots of insecurity in Nigeria since the country’s return to civilian rule in 1999. This research draws on fieldwork conducted across each of Nigeria’s six sub-national regions, with a focus on four distinct yet interrelated conflicts: rural banditry, the jihadist Boko Haram insurgency, the Niger Delta “petro-insurgency,” and Biafran separatism.
