Dr Stef Jansen

 

As honorary professor I can't take on any new doctoral supervisees at Manchester. If you are enrolling on a PhD programme that allows the engagement of external supervisors, you can contact me on stef.jansen[at]ff.unsa.ba

current PhD supervision (July 2022):

  1. Aleksandra Szymczyk: Democracy and its discontents: populist mobilisation and everyday politics in small-town Poland [second supervisor: William Wheeler]
  2. Alexandra Ciocănel: Liquid homeownership: time, money and residential property in Bucharest, Romania [second supervisor: Soumhya Venkatesan]
  3. Laura Mafizzoli: Gulag memoryscapes: narratives and practices of Gulag memory-making in contemporary Tbilisi [co-supervisor: Madeleine Reeves]
  4. Sam Rumé: Creating a 'tramway culture': conflicting mobilities and the politics of infrastructure in Cuenca, Ecuador [first supervisor: Penny Harvey]

completed PhD supervision:

  1. Rozafa Berisha, awarded PhD 2022: After triumphalism: young women, hope, and the state a decade after Kosovo's independence [second supervisor: Michelle Obeid]
  2. Judy Thorne, awarded PhD 2022: 'What do you want the world to be like in the future': utopian ethnography in the crisis-ordinary of late 2010s Patra, Greece [second supervisor: Nicholas Thoburn]
  3. Francesco Montagnani, awarded PhD 2021: Who knows what: the politics of activism and urban requalification in Palermo [first supervisor: Angela Torresan]
  4. Panos Achniotis, 2020-transferred 2021: The cultural politics of sovereignty in Catalunya: the visual and temporal lives of independentismo [first supervisor: Madeleine Reeves]
  5. Anna Balázs, awarded PhD 2020: In-between futures: urban transformation in an East Ukrainian frontline city [second supervisor: Madeleine Reeves / William Wheeler]
  6. Guilherme Moreira Fians, awarded PhD 2019: Of revolutionaries and geeks: mediation, space and time among Esperanto speakers [second supervisor: Angela Torresan]
  7. Juan Manuel Del Nido, awarded PhD 2018: Uber in Buenos Aires: the post-political as a modality of reasoning [second supervisor: Angela Torresan]
  8. Ahmad Moradi, awarded PhD 2018: Politics of persuasion: making and unmaking revolution in Iran [first supervisor: Michelle Obeid]
  9. Amelia Abercrombie, awarded PhD 2017: Purity and mixture: language and social relations among Roma in Prizren [co-supervisor: Yaron Matras]
  10. Milorad Kapetanović, awarded PhD 2017: Roadside architecture in Bosnia and Herzegovina between consumerism and vernacularity [Balkanski študiji, University of Ljubljana (SLO); first supervisor: Marjan Hočevar]
  11. Samar Kanafani, awarded PhD 2017: Institutional neglect and deliberate debris: an ethnography of urban renewal and the aesthetic of space in Beirut [first supervisor: Michelle Obeid]
  12. Deana Jovanović, awarded PhD 2016: Imagining the future and crafting life projects: ‘normality’ in a mining city in Eastern Serbia [second supervisor: Madeleine Reeves]
  13. Goran Dokić, awarded PhD 2015: Between warfare and welfare: veterans organisations and social security in rural Serbia [second supervisor: Tony Simpson]
  14. Ivan Rajković, awarded PhD 2015: Struggles for moral ground: problems with work and legitimacy in a Serbian industrial town [second supervisor: Madeleine Reeves]
  15. Vanja Čelebičić-Arielli, awarded PhD 2013: Waiting is hoping: youth and future in a Bosnian border town [second supervisor: Sarah Green]
  16. Andrew Hodges, awarded PhD 2013: The everyday geopolitics of science in post-Yugoslav space: from war and ‘transition’ to economic crisis [second supervisor: Penny Harvey]
  17. Cosmin Radu, awarded MPhil 2013: Crossings and dwellings, or the impossibility of the Black Box: the Romania-Yugoslavia border’s closings and openings, 1940s-1980s [second supervisor: Sarah Green]
  18. Valentina Moise, awarded PhD 2013: The shifting borders of EU expansion: everyday experiences of removing and replacing boundaries on the Italian-Slovenian border [first supervisor: Sarah Green]
  19. Čarna Brković, awarded PhD 2012: Navigating rules and wills: healthcare and social protection in a Bosnian border town [second supervisor: Sarah Green]
  20. Marina Simić, awarded PhD 2009: 'Exit to Europe': state, travel, popular music and 'normal life' in a Serbian town [first supervisor: Sarah Green]
  21. Ainhoa Montoya, awarded PhD 2011: Democracy and its shadows: violence and statecraft in post-war El Salvador [first supervisor: John Gledhill]
  22. Lisa Riedner, 2008 - transferred 2011: (Un)documented migrant workers, precarity and labour/mobility regimes in Germany [first supervisor: Nina Glick-Schiller]
  23. Alice Bryer, awarded PhD 2009: Politics of value-creation: struggles for self-determination and social responsibility in the empresas recuperadas (Argentina) [first supervisor: John Gledhill]
  24. Aliaa Remtilla, awarded PhD 2012: Re‐producing social relations: political and economic change and Islam in post‐Soviet Tajik Ishkashim [first supervisor: Soumhya Venkatesan]
  25. Hannah Lewis, awarded PhD 2008: Interrogating community: dispersed refugees in Leeds [first supervisor: Gary Craig]
  26. Julia Holdsworth, awarded PhD 2005: Post-Soviet uncertainties: chaos and coping in Donetsk, Ukraine [first supervisor: Andrew Dawson]