Ana Vilhelmina Verdnik is a DPhil in Politics candidate at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford. She is the recipient of the DPIR Studentship and is affiliated with St Antony's College. Focusing on legacies of political violence, her research explores how armed groups transform to formal and informal ex-combatant networks. She investigates both the formation of such ties as well as their impact on socio-economic outcomes of ex-combatants. Her doctoral thesis is titled: Tomorrow’s a New Day: Explaining Ex-Combatant Trajectories from Remobilisation to Reintegration as is supervised by Professor Andrea Ruggeri. The project is supported by Folke Bernadotte Academy, the Swedish agency for peace, security, and development.
In her work, Ana draws on multiple methods - surveys, survey experiments, interviews, large-n cross-case analyses and fieldwork-based case studies. She is currently working on implementing a large-scale survey of ex-combatant population in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Ana holds a MSc (2021) in Economics from London School of Economics and a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (2020) from University of Oxford.
Teaching
Ana Vilhelmina is a General Teaching Assistant (GTA) and regularly delivered tutorials for the International Security and Conflict course offered to undergraduate students studying Politics. She is also a GTA for the Core Empirical Research Methods course offered to 1st-year MPhil in Economics students in the Economics Department at the University of Oxford.
