Dr. Laura Welty

Biography

Laura Welty is a Lecturer in Political Science at the Australian National University. She completed her PhD, titled "Preventing Countering Salafist Radicalisation in Bosnia Herzegovina," at the University of Sydney in 2022. Welty holds an MA in Non-Proliferation and Terrorism Studies from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, completed in 2014, and a dual BA in History and Political Science from Franklin University Switzerland. Her research primarily focuses on ethnic and religious conflict, international relations, comparative politics, and public policy, with a keen interest in the intersection of ethnic and religious identity conflicts, terrorism, and the normative discourse surrounding identity. Laura has previously served as a Project Coordinator for the Electoral Integrity Project and as a Survey Administrator for the Global Party Survey. Additionally, she was a Postgraduate Teaching Fellow at the University of Sydney and has engaged in research as an assistant for the Sydney Policy Lab. Currently, she is the Book Reviews Editor for Nationalism and Ethnic Politics and has been teaching courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels since 2017, including international relations and comparative politics. In 2024, she will be convening several key political science units at ANU.

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