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Dr. Anna Finiguerra

Assistant Professor in International Relations
Dr Anna Finiguerra holds a PhD in Political Science from Queen Mary University of London. Her PhD research, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, won the 2024 EISA Best Dissertation Award. She collaborated as a Postdoctoral Research Associate on the ESCR-funded project New Investigator Project ‘Practice, Assemblage, and Emergence in the Governance of Freight Shipping’ in the Department of Defence Studies at King’s College London. She has held teaching positions at Queen Mary University of London, King’s College London and the University of Hertfordshire. She joined Forward College in 2025.
Research Interests
- International Relations Theory
- Critical Migration Studies
- Science and Technology studies.
- Politics of expertise and knowledge
- Mobility and Infrastructure
Current teaching
- EMFSS Programme: IR1198 International Relations: Theories, Concepts and Debates.
- Open Bachelor Programme: PLIR112 Fundamentals and Perspectives of International Relations.
Selected publications and outputs
- 2025, “Integrated Modelling and Ontologies of Energy Futures: The Decarbonisation of Maritime Transport” with Dr Alex Gould, Energy Research and Social Science, 127
- 2025, “Practically Becoming International: Expertise, Infrastructure and Classification Societies in Maritime Governance” with Dr Alex Gould, European Journal of International Relations, 0(0).
- 2023, “A Boat’s Afterlife: Multiple Translations of Migratory Debris”. European Journal of International Relations, 29(3)
- 2022, “Re-imagining Mobility: From (In)visibility to Multiple Processes of Making Present”. Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 51(1)
