School of Social and Political Science

Background

Antonia Juelich  is a doctoral candidate in International Development at the School of Social and Political Science. She is also an International Security Program Predoctoral Research Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center. Her doctoral research focuses on extremism, internal armed group dynamics and displacement in Northeast Nigeria. Specifically, it examines how and why civilians cooperate with insurgents following violent occupation and abduction. Based on interviews with people who lived under Boko Haram’s authority, it shows how diverse pathways of cooperation emerge from individuals’ navigation of war zones that provide constraints and possibilities for civilian – and armed group – survival. Her research is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.

Antonia holds an MSc in African Studies from the University of Edinburgh, MSc in Development Studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a BA in Social Sciences from Humboldt University Berlin. She has worked for the United Nations, the German Corporation for International Development (GIZ) and non-governmental organizations.