Fidelia Danielle Renne

Dr Fidelia Danielle Renne is a Research Associate at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford. She completed her doctorate in International Development at Oxford's Queen Elizabeth House (Department of International Development), and subsequently the courses Politics in the Middle East (undergraduate) and Social movements, Revolution, and Protest (postgraduate) at DPIR as Departmental Lecturer in Middle East Politics. She is now engaged as a research associate, working as PI on the project "'And Yet We Stay': A Participatory Study of Place-Making as Politics", which compares MENA and US youth politics through the lens of grassroots place-making initiatives. With research interests spanning social movement studies, community development, civil society networks, and post-conflict social cohesion, her body of work focuses on associational life, friendship, identity negotiation, and political engagement among youth in highly heterogenous societies.