Dr Marnie Howlett

Dr Marnie Howlett
Departmental Lecturer in Russian and East European Politics
Department of Politics and International Relations ; Nuffield College
marnie.howlett@area.ox.ac.uk

Dr Marnie Howlett is a Departmental Lecturer in Russian and East European Politics in the Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR) and Oxford’s School of Global and Area Studies (OSGA). She is also an Associate Member at Nuffield College.

Marnie's research lies at the nexus of geopolitics, cartography, borders, and nationalism within the former Soviet Union, particularly Ukraine. She has conducted extensive fieldwork in the country analysing the role of borders in shaping grassroots dynamics. She is currently finalising her first book monograph, which explores how imagined and territorial cartographies shape contemporary Ukrainian politics. Since the beginning of the Russia-Ukraine war, she has been working on several projects related to Ukrainian nation-building at the grassroots, including running public opinion and conjoint experiment surveys in the country. She has also begun work on her second book, which qualitative examines the motivations of ordinary Ukrainians who joined the Armed Forces immediately following Russia's 2022 invasion. Her main research interests also include qualitative methodologies and research ethics, as well as the use of digital, visual, and spatial methods for political science research.

Marnie holds a PhD in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), as well as a MA in Political Science and BA (High Honours) in International Studies from the University of Saskatchewan.

 

Supervisees: Eliska Vinklerova

Supervision Interests: Nationalism; Territory; International Relations; Ukraine; Research Methods and Ethics

 

X handle: @marnie_howlett

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marnie-howlett-a32a3b2ab?utm_source=share&ut...

 

Media Coverage:

TIME: https://time.com/6965892/ukraine-military-mobilization-conscription-law/

News Talk: https://www.newstalk.com/podcasts/highlights-from-talking-history/modern...

New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/28/world/europe/ukraine-russia-peace-tal...

Aljazeera: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/11/16/dutch-judges-to-deliver-mh17-t...

Conference Board of Canada: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/ep-29-marnie-howlett-on-ukraine-as...

CBC Saskatchewan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJl8rS_MD2o

CBC Saskatoon Morning: https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-88-saskatoon-morning/clip/1590053...

CBC BlueSky: https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-189-blue-sky/clip/15906901-as-war... Times Radio: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/radio/show/20220402-13203/2022-04-02.

Astro Awani: https://www.astroawani.com/video-malaysia/consider-ukraine-part-2-territ...

 

Research Interests

Research Disciplines:

  • Politics, international relations

 

Research Keywords:

  • Nationalism, cartography, borders, identity politics, borderlands, geopolitics qualitative methods

 

Countries:

  • Ukraine, USSR, European Union
Affiliation

Government and Politics Network.

Contact Information

Email: marnie.howlett@politics.ox.ac.uk

Publications

Books

Dall’ Agnola, Jasmin, Allyson Edwards, and Marnie Howlett (eds). 2022. Researching in the Former Soviet Union: Stories from the Field. London, UK: Routledge.

 

Articles

Dill, Janina, Marnie Howlett, and Carl Müller-Crepon. 2023. ‘At Any Cost: How Ukrainians Think About the Proportionality of Self-Defence.’ American Journal of Political Science. Howlett, Marnie and Valeria Lazarenko.

2023. “How and When Should We (Not) Speak? Ethical Knowledge Production About the Russia-Ukraine War.” Journal of International Relations and Development. Konken Lauren C. and Marnie Howlett.

2023. ‘When “Home” Becomes the “Field:” Ethical Considerations in Digital and Remote Fieldwork.’ Perspectives on Politics 21(3): 849-862. Howlett, Marnie.

2023. “The Russia-Ukraine War as a Battle for a Bordered Land, Not Borderland.” Political Geography 101 (March 2023). Howlett, Marnie.

2022. “Looking at the ‘Field’ Through a Zoom Lens: Methodological Reflections on Conducting Online Research During a Global Pandemic.” Qualitative Research 22(3): 387-402. Howlett, Marnie.

2022. “Nation-Building from (Below) the Grassroots: Everyday Nationalism in Ukraine’s Bomb Shelters.” Nations and Nationalism 29(1): 63-69. Howlett, Marnie.

2022. “Playing Near the Edge: An Analysis of Ukrainian Border Youths’ Engagement with the Euromaidan.” Problems of Post-Communism. 69(2): 206-217.