Our Editors

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.

Nayantara Ranganatha is an MPhil student in Comparative Government at the University of Oxford. She is interested in political behaviour in contexts of authoritarianism and conflict, and transitional justice.

Isa Bojaj is an MPhil student in International Relations at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford. He previously served as Foreign Editor for Kosovo’s leading daily and Editorial Fellow at Prospect Magazine. Isa also served Kosovo’s Foreign Ministry.

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.

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.

Jingyuan Cheng is a DPhil student studying political economy. She is interested in the interaction mechanisms between state cadres and local elites such as entrepreneurs. She is also a fan of political philosophy.

Luis Prenninger is an MPhil student in Political Theory at the University of Oxford, where he studies epistemological issues in social metaphysics, particularly the sex/gender distinction.

Ava Tabatabaei is an MPhil student in Political Theory at the University of Oxford, where she studies political subjectivity, identity, and the politics of culture from a decolonial lens. She previously served as an editor of the Oxford Middle East Review.

Marlon Waddell is an MPhil student reading Political Theory at the University of Oxford. His interests span from decolonial and postcolonial theory to theatre criticism. Prior to his role at the OPR, he served as an assistant instructor at the Pozen Family Center for Human Rights at the University of Chicago.

Olivia Case is an MPhil student in Comparative Government at the University of Oxford, where she studies high courts and democratic backsliding.

Ingrid Cui is an MPhil student in Political Theory at the University of Oxford, where she studies post-Fordism, the information economy, and neoliberalism. Prior to coming to Oxford, she served as an editor for the Toronto literary journal The Trinity Review.

Yufeng Liu is a DPhil student in Politics, focusing on the political economy of subnational government.

Isabella Turilli is DPhil International Relations candidate at the University of Oxford. Her research recasts historic nurses as diplomats in their own right, interrogating the ways in which gender, power, and politics are imbricated. She also assists with book reviews and editorials at Perspectives on Politics.

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

Justas Petrauskas is a DPhil student in Politics at All Souls College, Oxford, studying judiciaries and the long-term effects of institutions put in place to manage ethnic differences in divided societies. He holds a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford. His other research interests include the politics of the EU and epistemological issues in political theory and practice.

Justin Daniels is a DPhil candidate in International Relations at Somerville College, Oxford. After graduating with a BA in French from Stanford University, he was assistant editor of the Journal of Democracy.