Our Editors

Isabella Turilli is an MPhil student in International Relations at Lincoln College, Oxford. She was previously a research associate for global health, economics, and development at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Prior to joining CFR, she conducted and published research with the Center for Global Health Science and Security, the Bansal Lab, and as a Fellow with the Global Irish Studies Initiative. Turilli graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Science, Technology, and International Affairs with a focus on global health policy and a Certificate in Diplomatic Studies from the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.

Adin Chan is a DPhil student in International Relations. He studies transitional administrations, strategic decision making, and the nexus of identity and peacebuilding operations.

Jordan Edwards-Zinger is a first year MPhil student in Comparative Government at the University of Oxford, where she specialises in Soviet and post-Soviet authoritarian regimes, the institutions within these states, and the changing nature of autocratic politics. She recently graduated with a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Brasenose College, Oxford.

Julia Hoffmann is a MPhil student in International Relations at St Antony’s college. Having grown up in China, she has always been keenly interested in the country’s history, and is now studying how contemporary political developments in China will shape the future of the East Asian region and the globalized world at large. While doing her undergraduate degree in London, Julia worked on the editorial team of various student publications and now hopes to pursue a career in political publishing.

Charlotte Jung is a 2nd year MPhil student in International Relations at Balliol College, Oxford. Her main research interests centre on the legal prosecution and classification of crimes of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) against men during conflict, with an institutional focus on the ICC.

Marta Kąkol specialises in EU politics, particularly in the context of international relations, as well as energy, social and migration policy. She holds a Master’s degree in Politics Research from the University of Oxford and a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Utrecht University. Professionally, she has worked extensively in political and business consulting and published journalistic articles. 

Angelo M’BA graduated with honours from the University of Oxford, where he read for an MPhil in Modern Chinese Studies at St Antony’s College. He is currently perfecting his Chinese on a scholarship at Zhejiang University, in Hangzhou.

Elena Sofia Massacesi is an MPhil student in European Politics at the University of Oxford. Her research analyses on how business-government relations shape greenwashing behaviour, focusing on EU Member States. She was previously part of the Core Writers team at European Horizons.

Saskia Poulter is an MPhil student in Comparative Government at the University of Oxford, where she studies how strategic incentives shape parties’ policy agendas in coalition governments. Previously, she worked in migration research in the UK Civil Service, and for a political data science consultancy.

Roy Shinar-Cohen studies Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Harris Manchester College and focuses on the translation of political theory into political action. Before coming to Oxford, Roy has worked for several organisations and think tanks, where he primarily researched Israel’s geo-political standing and policies on a range of issues. Today, aside from his studies, Roy is a research fellow at the Institute for Jewish Policy Research.

Luke Dale is a History and German Finalist at Oriel College, Oxford. He studies the history of nationalism in German and Russian-speaking contexts.

Angelina (Siyun) Ding is a third-year BA History and Politics student at Keble College, Oxford. She is interested in how ideas and ideology in the public sphere interact with the political world, as well as the complex historical forces that drive the evolution of political thought. Originally from Beijing, China, she is passionate about bringing discussions regarding cultural phenomena that is unfamiliar to audiences outside of East Asia into the eyes of a wider public.

Max Gallagher is an undergraduate at St Hugh’s College studying PPE. His interests are European populism, free speech, and analytic philosophy.

Jacob Hougie is an MPhil student in Political Theory at the University of Oxford, where he is focusing on communitarianism and questions of the role of ethics in politics.

Jacob Keesing Ostfeld is an MPhil student in Political Theory at Oxford, where he studies the politics of the workplace and social class. Before studying at Oxford, Jacob received his B.A. in Government from Harvard in 2023.

Morien Robertson is a Philosophy, Politics, and Economics undergraduate at St Hugh’s College, Oxford. He is interested in a wide range of subjects, including contemporary political theory, social policy, metaethics, and philosophy of language.

Annie Taber a second-year MPhil student in European Politics and Society. Her research interests center around the populist radical right, the rural-urban divide, and the construction of in-groups and out-groups in political communication. She previously received her B.S. in Foreign Service from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.

A.J. Dilts is an MPhil Student in International Relations at St Catherine’s College, Oxford. Originally from Kentucky in the United States, his research centers on the foreign policy decision-making process, and he is interested in the intersection of national security law, domestic institutional design, and international politics.

Lindsey A. Williams is an MPhil student in Political Theory at Magdalen College, Oxford. She earned her undergraduate degree at Stanford University, where she studied Political Science with a minor in History. As an undergraduate, she was a founding member of the ACLU of Stanford and the Stanford Undergraduate Law Review, where she was a staff editor and contributor for several years. She has worked as a research assistant at the Hoover Institution and was an Undergraduate Constitutional Law Fellow at Stanford Law School. Her research interests include jurisprudence, judicial methodology, and theories of democratic liberalism. She is a Barry Scholar.

Barry Lin is an MPhil student in International Relations at St Hugh’s College, Oxford. His main interests include great power competition and international political economy, with a specific focus on East Asia.

Samu/elle, or Elle, Striewski is an MPhil student in Political Theory and German Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford. They are interested in (Queer) Critical Theory, especially in the concept of recognition. Previously they studied philosophy, comparative literature, and gender studies in Berlin, Frankfurt, Paris, and New York City.

Ming Kit Wong is a DPhil student in Politics at Magdalen College, Oxford focusing on postwar anti-utopian liberal thought. He holds an MSc in Political Theory Research from the University of Oxford and an MPhil in Political Thought and Intellectual History from the University of Cambridge, where he first read History as an undergraduate. @mkw38

Seraph Lee is a second-year undergraduate studying Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the University of Oxford. In her penultimate year, she is specializing in political sociology and international relations, alongside her studies in economics.