UCC PhD Student Rojin Mukriyan has been awarded the PhD Excellence Scholarship

24 Aug 2023

Congratulations to Rojin Mukriyan on receiving the CACSSS PhD Excellence Scholarship.

Rojin Mukriyan (Fatemeh Mostafavi) is a PhD candidate in the Department of Government and Politics. She has obtained a BA and MSc from UCC after fleeing from Iran in 2014. For her BA,  she double majored in Philosophy and Politics. She then obtained an MSc in Government and Politics from UCC with a thesis on the application of classical republican conceptions of domination and political liberty to the Kurds of Rojava (West Kurdistan). Presently, She is doing a PhD research project that is focused on a detailed analysis of jailed Kurdish political theorist, Abdullah Öcalan, and his conceptions of democratic confederalism and democratic civilization.

Her main research areas are in political theory and Middle Eastern politics, especially Kurdish politics. So far, She has published articles in the Journal of International Political Theory, Philosophy and Social Criticism, and Theoria. Her publications have focused on the areas of Kurdish liberty, Kurdish statehood, and Kurdish political friendship. She has also published many think tank commentaries and reports on recent political developments in eastern Kurdistan (Rojhelat), or north-western Iran, at The Kurdish Peace Institute, The Kurdish Centre for Studies and the Mesopotamian Observatory of Justice.