The School of International Studies at the University of Trento awards one PhD thesis prize in memory of Dr. Brett William Campbell.
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, on 27 July 1979, Brett was admitted to the PhD programme in International Studies at the University of Trento in 2012 . His work focussed on U.S. counterterrorism and the Drone War. He left us on 29 July 2018 after losing his battle against cancer. This second edition is also in memory of Dr. Masa Anisic, Brett’s wife and life companion, who left us in April 2021. Masa was a dedicated scholar of human rights and particularly of the rights of persons with disabilities – on which she wrote her PhD thesis at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa.
Applicants may submit their PhD thesis in the fields of political science, sociology, philosophy, economics, or law and pertaining to one of the following thematic areas:
1. Security, human rights, and/or identity in International Studies in light of the multiple crises affecting our contemporary world, including the crisis of multilateralism, democratic crises, migration crises, humanitarian crises, environmental crises, global health crises, and emergency regimes;
2. The way in which international actors position themselves in the face of the crises mentioned above;
3. The way in which these crises are changing and challenging International Studies as a field of practice and/or study.
Application deadline extended to 03 August 2022
For further information visit the webpage of the prize