Renske's Supervision of PhD and Postdoc Projects
Renske is available to undertake PhD supervision in any area that interconnects with her own research interests. She particularly welcomes PhD students with interests in democracy and freedom, popular participation and political institutions, the impact of cultural values and people's views around democratization, recent trends towards authoritarianism around the globe.
PhD Current Projects:
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* 'politics of constitution-making in Egypt and Tunisia'
* 'post-liberation state-building in Algeria'
PhD Completions:
As first supervisor (80-100%):
* Tereza Jermanov谩 (2019), 'Transition paths and constitution-making in Egypt and Tunisia' ( is currently assistant professor at the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic)
* Juan Gomez (2017). 'Explaining democratic divergence: the impact of elite political culture and political institutions on the democratic performance of Colombia and Venezuela' ( is currently professor at the University of Icesi, in Cali, Colombia)
* Mohammed Ali Bapir (2016). 'How the political elite view democracy in deeply divided countries: the case of Iraq' ( is currently lecturer at the University of Kurdistan, in Iraq)
* Sai-fu Fung (2016). 'Understanding and explaining deviant autocracies: the cases of Hong Kong and Singapore' ( currently lectures at City University of Hong Kong)
As second supervisor (20-40%):
* Oula Kadhum (2017). 'Diasporic interventions: state-building in Iraq following the 2003 Iraq war' (is currently a teaching fellow at the Politics Department of SOAS University of London, UK)
* Kawther Nuri Alfasi (2017). 'Political agency and the symbolic legacy of authoritarian regimes: the case of Libya'
* 顿啪别苍别迟补 Karabegovi膰 (2017). 'Bosnia abroad: transnational diaspora mobilization' ( is currently postdoc at the Sociology Department of the University of Salzburg, Austria)
* Jinghan Zeng (2014). 'The Chinese Communist Party's capacity to rule: legitimacy, ideology, and party cohesion' (is currently professor of China and International Studies in the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion, Lancaster University, UK)
Past postdoctoral supervision:
* Tina Freyburg (is currently professor at St Gallen, Switzerland)
* Francesca Refsum Jensenius ( is currently associate professor at the University of Oslo, Norway)
* Ammar Maleki ( is currently assistant professor at Tilburg University, the Netherlands)