Xymena Kurowska is a social and International Relations theorist engaged in interpretive policy analysis. She received her doctorate in political and social sciences from European University Institute in Florence, Italy. She works within International Political Sociology, with emphasis on security practices, and uses affect theory, psychosocial and anthropological approaches, and relational and interpretive methodologies. She further explores the ethics of academic practice. She has been a grantee of the European Foreign and Security Policy Studies Programme and a Marie Skłodowska-Curie senior research fellow at the Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth University. She has also served as the CEU principal investigator for the Global Norm Evolution and Responsibility to Protect project, chair of International Political Sociology section at International Studies Association, academic rapporteur for the EU Cyber Direct project, and co-editor-in-chief of Journal of International Relations and Development.
She teaches and supervises in the areas of international intervention, norms, security theory and practice, political anthropology, epistemic politics, posthumanism, and interpretive methods. She received the 2023 CEU Teaching Excellence Award. For details on approach to research, writing and teaching, have a read of her interview for E-IR; on academic journey have a listen at The Hayseed Scholar Podcast.