Enrike van Wingerden
Erasmus School of History, Culture, and Communication
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Burgemeester Oudlaan 50
3062 PA Rotterdam
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Researcher and Project Coordinator (2023 – present)
Department of Political Science/Institute for Advanced Study
University of Amsterdam
Lecturer (2022 – present)
Department of History (Team International Relations)
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Junior Lecturer (GTA) (2019 – 2022)
Department of International Relations
London School of Economics and Political Science
Research Associate (2016 – 2019)
Department of Political Science
University of Amsterdam
EDUCATION
PhD International Relations (2018 – 2023)
London School of Economics and Political Science
No corrections
MPhil Modern Middle Eastern Studies (2016 – 2018)
University of Oxford
Arabic language track
MSc International Relations Research (2015 – 2016)
London School of Economics and Political Science
With distinction, top of class
BSc Political Science (2012 – 2015)
University of Amsterdam
With honors
PUBLICATIONS
a. Refereed articles in ISI-ranked journals (7)
- Van Wingerden, E. (Forthcoming). Of Wolves and Wars: Infrastructural Violence in a Multispecies World. Security Dialogue. Impact factor: 2.5.
- Van Wingerden, E. & Vigneswaran, D. (2024). The Terrestrial Trap: International Relations Beyond Earth. Review of International Studies 50(3): 600-618. Impact factor: 3.
- Richetta, C., Harbers, I., & Van Wingerden, E. (2023). The Subnational Electoral Coercion in India (SECI) Data Set, 1985-2015. Electoral Studies 85. Impact factor: 2.3.
- Harbers, I., Richetta, C., & Van Wingerden, E. (2023). Shaping Electoral Outcomes: Intra- and Anti-Systemic Violence in Indian Assembly Elections. British Journal of Political Science 53: 424-440. Impact factor: 5.615.
- Van Wingerden, E. (2022). Unmastering Research: Positionality and Intercorporeal Vulnerability in International Studies. International Political Sociology 16 (2). Impact factor: 3.229.
- Punter, D.E., Van der Veen, H., Van Wingerden, E., & Vigneswaran, D. (2019). A ‘Distributive Regime’? Rethinking Global Migration Control. Political Geography 70: 117-126. Impact factor: 3.62.
- Harbers, I., Bartman, J. & Van Wingerden, E. (2019). Conceptualizing and Measuring Subnational Democracy Across Indian States. Democratization 26 (7): 1154-1175. Impact factor: 3.339.
b. Refereed book chapters (2)
- Van Wingerden, E. & Vigneswaran, D. (Forthcoming). Habitability. In: Keywords for Social Studies of Outer Space, edited by Alex Taylor. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Van Wingerden, E. (2025). Putting “Things” First: On Objects and Agency in International Relations. In The Oxford Handbook of International Political Sociology, edited by Stacie Goddard, George Lawson, and Ole Jacob Sending. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024.
c. Edited volumes (1)
- Engelhard, A., Li, A., & Van Wingerden, E. (2021). Entanglements and Detachments in Global Politics. Millennium: Journal of International Studies 49(3). Impact factor: 2.395.
d. Popular scientific writing (1)
- Van Wingerden, E. (2017). Toward an Affirmative Critique of Abstraction in International Relations Theory. E-International Relations.
GRANTS & FUNDING
Resilient Delta Kick-Starter Grant – 35,000 EUR (2025-2026)
Erasmus University Rotterdam
ENLENS Research Grant – 45,000 EUR (2025-2026)
University of Amsterdam
HOKA Education Grant – est. 50,000 EUR (2023-2024)
Erasmus University Rotterdam
PhD Studentship – est. 130,000 GBP (2018 – 2023)
London School of Economics and Political Science
Global South Research Award – 2,500 GBP (2020)
London School of Economics and Political Science
MPhil and DPhil 2+3 Studentship – est. 68,000 GBP (2016 – 2018)
University of Oxford, Economic and Social Research Council
DPhil (PhD) part declined
Postgraduate Scholarship – 10,000 EUR (2016)
VSBfonds
Postgraduate Scholarship – 4,000 EUR (2016)
Hendrik Mullerfonds
Postgraduate Scholarship – 2,000 EUR (2015)
Fundatie van de Vrijvrouwe van Renswoude
Postgraduate Scholarship – 1,000 EUR (2015)
Bekker La Bastide Fonds
Total Awards ~ 375,000 EUR
HONORS & PRIZES
- Departmental education prize, nominee for the Erasmus Education Prize (2025)
- Highest student survey scores at the Erasmus University Rotterdam’s History Department (2024)
- Selected as the London School of Economics’ nominee for BISA’s Michael Nicholson Thesis Prize (2024)
- Class Teacher Award: Highly Commended (2021)
London School of Economics and Political Science - Highest overall marks in the Qualifying Examinations (2017)
MPhil Modern Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford - Highest marks for research methods (2016)
Including quantitative qualitative methods, and research design, calculated among all social science MSc and PhD students at the London School of Economics and Political Science - Highest marks in the master’s program (2016)
MSc International Relations Research, London School of Economics and Political Science - Valedictorian for the BSc Political Science (2013)
University of Amsterdam
INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES
Ethnographic fieldwork
2025 Nova Scotia/Newfoundland, Canada
2024 Shetland/Sutherland, Scotland
2022 Albuquerque/Santa Fe, United States
2022 Cape Town/Johannesburg, South Africa
2021 Belfast/Cork/Dublin, (Northern) Ireland
2019 West Bank, Palestine
Language and research training
2017 Amman, Jordan
2014 Tehran, Iran
CONFERENCES
EVENT ORGANIZER
Critical Studies of Outer Space Conference Section
August 25-29, 2025 – Bologna, Italy (organized the section but did not attend due to maternity leave)
European International Studies Association Conference
Early Career Researchers Symposium on International Studies
June 23, 2021 – Lagos, Nigeria (moved online)
Millennium: Journal of International Studies, Lagos Studies Association
Conference: Entanglements and Detachments in Global Politics
October 22-24, 2020 – London, United Kingdom (moved online)
Millennium: Journal of International Studies – 3,300+ participants, 150+ presentation
PANEL/ROUNDTABLE ORGANIZER
2025 EISA: Planetary Politics Beyond the Edge of the Earth
2024 EISA: Research Anarchism
2024 EISA: Multispecies Justice in International Relations
2024 EISA: More-than-Human Perspectives in International Relations
2023 EISA: Beyond Terra: Interrogating the Material Conditions of Political Life
2021 ISA: Scholar-Activism in International Relations
PANEL PRESENTER
2025 EISA (did not attend due to maternity leave)
2024 EISA (Lille)
2023 EISA (Potsdam)
2022 ISA (Nashville), EISA (Athens)
2021 ISA (online), EISA (online)
2020 ISA (cancelled), EISA (cancelled)
2019 EISA (Sofia), BISA (London)
2018 Millennium (London)
2017 APSA (San Francisco)
INVITED TALKS
2025 Open University Milton Keynes, University of Vienna
2024 Erasmus University College, University of Amsterdam
TEACHING & SUPERVISION
Erasmus University Rotterdam (BA + MA)
- CH4122 International Relations Theory (2024 – present) (student survey: 9.2 out of 10)
- CH4242 Power, Politics & Sovereignty
(2023 – present) (no student survey available) - H4224 Global Environmental Politics
(2023 – present) (student survey: 9.8 out of 10) - CH1104 Heuristic Skills and Sources
(2022 – present) (student survey: 9.5 out of 10) - CH4020 Global Order in the Postcolonial World
(2023 – 2024) (no student survey available) - CH3085 War, Peace and the Economy (2022 – 2024) (no student survey available)
London School of Economics and Political Science (BSc + MSc)
- IR499 Dissertation in International Relations
(2020 – 2022) (no student survey available) - IR485 Dissertation in International Political Economy
(2020 – 2022) (no student survey available) - IR102 Thinking Globally: Studying International Relations
(2020 – 2021) (student survey: 9.4 out of 10) - IR100 International Relations: Theories, Concepts and Debates (2019 – 2020) (student survey: 9 out of 10)
ACADEMIC SERVICE
Reviewer
Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Cooperation and Conflict, International Political Sociology, International Security, Political Geography, Review of International Studies, Space Policy
Editor
- Associate Editor, Millennium: Journal of International Studies, volume 50 (2020 – 2021)
- Editor, Millennium: Journal of International Studies, volume 49 (2019 – 2020)
Convenor
- Founder and convenor, Multispecies Politics Workshop (2024 – present)
- Founder and convenor, Seminar Series in International Political Sociology, Amsterdam (2021 – 2025)
- Convenor, Seminar Series in International Political Sociology, London (2019 – 2020)
Representative
- Vice-President of the Mansfield Middle Common Room, University of Oxford (2017 – 2018)
- Staff-Student Liaison Committee Representative, London School of Economics and Political Science (2015 – 2016)
- Student Representative at the Selection Committee for the Position of Assistant Professor in International Relations, University of Amsterdam (2015)
- Program Advisory Committee Representative, University of Amsterdam (2013 – 2015)
Other
- Trained Mental Health Peer Supporter, University of Oxford (2017 – 2018)