A DPhil candidate at the University of Oxford, funded by the Leverhulme Trust and the Department of Politics and International Relations, my research recovers and evaluates the international thinking of historical women in the United States academy from 1919 to 1949. Focused on the interconnected, critical mass of largely Eastern institutions, especially women’s colleges and historically black colleges and universities, I use extensive archival research in the US to find thinkers and analyse their work, both published and unpublished.

Nicolas is a final-year DPhil candidate in Politics at DPIR and Wolfson College. In addition, he is a researcher at the Centre for the Study of African Economies, Department of Economics; a fellow at the Oxford Martin Programme on African Governance; and the co-convenor of the Oxford University China-Africa Network. He has also been a visiting researcher at the Centre de Recherches Internationales (CERI) at Sciences Po Paris.

I am a DPhil/PhD candidate in International Relations with a focus on International Political Economy. My research interests are economic sanctions, trade conflicts, and environmental economics.

I previously worked as a management consultant in Germany. I hold a BA in Business from the University of St Gallen, an MPhil in Politics from Oxford, and was a Visiting Student at Harvard.

I am Rowing World Champion 2015 and represented Oxford in the 2018 Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race. Now, I am a passionate and very average surfer.

Nicholas is a DPhil candidate researching the differences in legislative debates between democratic, authoritarian, and backsliding regimes. He focuses on the Russian Duma (1996-2021) as a case study, examining the development of formal and informal mechanisms that restrict or facilitate floor time, as well as the growing dissimilarity in speechmaking incentives between government and opposition and between leaders and backbenchers.

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I am a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow and a Research Fellow at Keble College. My work sits at the intersection between regime change studies, historical political economy, and institutional design. My BA project uses mixed methods and leverages evidence from Latin America to comparatively explore how and why taxes, social policies, and market regulations vary inside countries. If you’re keen, you can read more about it here.