Annie Taber is reading for an MPhil in European Politics and Society in association with St Hilda's college. Prior to coming to Oxford, she studied at Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service and received her BSFS (Honors) in Regional and Comparative Studies with a concentration on Western Europe and a minor in French. Her undergraduate thesis examined the constructions of the populist "people" in the manifestos of the UK Independence Party in 2016 and Front national in 2017.
Annie's research interests centre around the populist radical right and discursive identity construction, with a particular focus on the construction of in-groups and out-groups. Her MPhil dissertation focuses on how politicians, particularly populists, treat issues of rurality in their discourse.
