Pauline Zerla

My work sits at the intersection of feminist international relations, visual politics, and critical security studies. I am in the final year of my PhD in the department of war studies at King’s College London. My doctoral research examines the everyday experiences of war and its aftermath through the liminal spaces of reintegration in Central Africa. Anchored in the study of embodiment, the everyday and war experience, the thesis examines wartime experiences among local communities and ex-combatants through film, drawing and life stories. 

In parallel of, and in complement to, my PhD, my current research is focused on landscapes of memory and of home as sites where civil wars continuities are embodied. 

I am also a GTA in the department of Defence Studies at KCL and co-editor of the Millennium Journal of International Studies. 

In 2022-2023, I was a fellow on the Civil War Paths project at the University of York.