Dr. Laura Luciani
Laura Luciani is a postdoctoral researcher at the Ghent Institute for International and European Studies and an affiliated researcher at the VUB Research Centre for Democratic Futures. Her current research explores everyday experiences of in/security in the Eastern European and South Caucasus region. Laura's research interests revolve around the local effects and negotiations of EU interventions, post-socialist civil society and activism, the geopolitics of gender and sexuality, and meaning-making in international politics.
Laura received her PhD degree in Political Sciences from Ghent University in 2022. Previously, she has interned at the European Endowment for Democracy (Brussels), volunteered for women’s rights causes in Georgia, and wrote with Italian media outlets covering Eastern Europe.
She is a member of the Steering Committee of Ghent University's Eureast Platform and a co-convenor of IPS Belgium, part of the international network Doing International Political Sociology.
Research interests
- EU external relations
- Post-Soviet Eurasia, especially the South Caucasus
- Civil society and social movements
- Human rights and democratisation
- Gender, peace, and security
- Interpretive methodologies
GIES research areas
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