Dr. Laura Luciani
Dr. Laura Luciani is a postdoctoral researcher at the Ghent Institute for International and European Studies and an affiliated researcher at the VUB Research Centre for Democratic Futures. Her current research explores everyday experiences of in/security amidst geopolitical shifts in the South Caucasus. Laura's research interests revolve around the local effects and negotiations of EU interventions, post-socialist civil society and activism, the geopolitics of gender and sexuality, and meaning-making in international politics. Her research has been published in international journals such as Cooperation and Conflict, International Feminist Journal of Politics, Journal of Common Market Studies, and Problems of Post-Communism, among others.
Laura received her PhD degree in Political Sciences from Ghent University in 2022. Previously, she has interned at the European Endowment for Democracy, volunteered for women’s rights causes in Georgia, and wrote with Italian media outlets covering Eastern Europe.
She is a member of the Steering Committee of Ghent University's Eureast Platform and a co-convenor of IPS Belgium, branch of the international network Doing International Political Sociology.
Research interests
- Post-Soviet Eurasia, especially the South Caucasus
- Global norms
- Civil society and social movements
- Gender and in/security
- EU external relations, especially the European Neighbourhood Policy
- Feminist and queer international relations
- Interpretive methodologies
GIES research areas
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Education
- Challenges in EU Politics
Contact information
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