Dr Julia Rone has spent the last decade doing research on social movements, politics and the utopias and dystopias of digital media. Before joining VU, Julia was a Research Associate at MCTD, CRASSH at the University of Cambridge, where she pursued a project exploring the democratisation of digital sovereignty. In 2019-2020, Julia was a Wiener-Anspach postdoctoral researcher for the project “Conflicts of Sovereignty in a European Union in crisis” at the Université libre de Bruxelles and the University of Cambridge. She focused in particular on sovereignty conflicts around Brexit and free trade agreements such as CETA and TTIP.
Julia holds a PhD in social and political science from the European University Institute in Florence and an MSc degree from the Oxford Internet Institute, which she pursued thanks to a Dulverton scholarship. She has a BA degree in History and Theory of Culture from Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski.
At the VU, Julia is teaching Comparative Politics.
