Mr Michiel Piersma

Michiel is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of International Relations, and an associate of the Architectures for Peace Lab. Prior to this, he worked as a sessional lecturer in this department, as well as in the Crawford School of Public Policy and the School of Politics and International Relations (SPIR).

He was awarded a PhD in Politics from the University of Liverpool in 2024.

My research examines the politics, everyday, intimate contests of land, water, memory, representations, and life itself, through an interdisciplinary lens of political science, political ecology, and political geography.

I currently work on a co-authored article on imaginaries of emptiness in International Relations. I also collaborate on a cross-disciplinary ANU research project on academic notions of human-nature relations.

BSc Political Science, University of Amsterdam, 2016
MSc Nationalism Studies, University of Edinburgh, 2017 (distinction)
PhD Politics, University of Liverpool, 2024