Dr. Kirsten Schulze

Biography

Kirsten E. Schulze is a Professor in the Department of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has held various academic positions, including Deputy Director of the LSE Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre from 2014 to 2016 and Head of the LSE Ideas Southeast Asia Programme from 2012 to 2014. Her research interests focus on armed conflict, communal separatist violence, political Islam, and militant jihadism in Indonesia and the Middle East. Professor Schulze has contributed significantly to the field through various publications and presentations on topics such as the Arab-Israeli Conflict, Indonesian History, and ethnic communal conflict. A graduate of Oxford University with a DPhil, she has previously lectured at Queen’s University Belfast. She supervises PhD students on a range of topics, including the role of peacekeeping in the Arab-Israeli conflict and the dynamics of Indonesian militant Islamism. Professor Schulze's teaching has garnered recognition, and she was a runner-up in the student-led Teaching Excellence Awards at LSE. Her ongoing research examines complex violent conflicts in Southeast Asia and has implications for understanding local and global security challenges.

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