Dr. Sorana Cristina Jude

Biography

Sorana-Cristina Jude is a Lecturer in Defence Studies at King’s College London within the Joint Services Command Staff College of the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom. Her research focuses on Critical Military Studies, exploring the intersection of feminist international relations, critical geopolitics, and the sociology of emotions. Jude investigates security and gender in relation to (post)colonial and (post)socialist militarized spaces. Her work aims to deepen the understanding of military subjectivity and the socio-political utility of justifying military violence. Jude's interests also include military dissent, anti-militarism, and cultural expressions within Western and non-Western spaces. She previously held positions at Newcastle University as a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow and as a Lecturer in Politics. Jude earned her PhD in International Politics from Aberystwyth University in 2018, where her doctoral dissertation, 'Israel’s Military: Emotions, Violence and Limits to Dissent', was awarded the Dissertation Award by the European International Studies Association in 2019. She is currently engaged in projects examining NATO’s war preparations in Romania.

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