Dr Jade McGlynn
Leverhulme Early Career Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research interests
- Security
- History
Biography
Jade McGlynn is a Leverhulme EC Researcher in the War Studies department at King’s College London. She holds a DPhil from the University of Oxford, where she previously worked as a Lecturer in Russian. She is a frequent contributor to international media, including BBC, CNN, DW, Foreign Policy, The Times, The Telegraph and The Spectator. Jade researchers the Ukrainian territories currently occupied by Russia and studies sociopolitical trends and direct and indirect attitudes towards the war in Ukraine and Russia, including via frequent fieldwork in east Ukraine.
Qualifications:
- DPhil Oxford (Russian)
- MA by Research (Russian and E European Studies) Birmingham
- BA/MA (Oxon) Russian and Spanish (Oxford)
Research interests
Memory politics, identity construction, Russian war on Ukraine since 2014, media and propaganda
Policy Papers
- Crossing thresholds: Ukrainian resistance to Russian occupation, CSIS. May 2024.
- Putin’s regime ideology: is it sustainable? CSIS. December 2023.
Publications
- Jade McGlynn and Maria Snegovaya, Dissecting Putin’s Regime Ideology’, Post-Soviet Affairs, June 2024. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1060586X.2024.2386838
- Jade McGlynn, Illiberal Memory across Borders: Russian Conceptualizations and Uses of History Abroad, Journal of Illiberalism Studies, Fall 2023. https://www.illiberalism.org/illiberal-memory-across-borders/
- Jade McGlynn, Russia’s War, Polity Press, 17 March 2023 https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=russias-war--9781509556755
- Jade McGlynn, Memory Makers: The Politics of the Past in Putin’s Russia, Bloomsbury Press, June 2023. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/memory-makers-9781350280762/
- Jade McGlynn and Oliver T. Jones, eds., Researching Memory and Identity in Russia and Eastern Europe: Interdisciplinary Methodologies, Palgrave Macmillan/Springer Press, 2022, https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-99914-8#toc
Peer-Reviewed Articles:
- ‘The Alliance of Victory: Russo-Serbian Memory Diplomacy’. In Memory Studies. First published Online First March 2022. Co-authored with Jelena Đureinović. Open Access.
- ‘United by History: Government Appropriation of Everyday Nationalism during Vladimir Putin’s Third Term’ in Nationalities Papers. Volume 48, Issue 6. Pp 1069-1085. October 2020. Open Access
- ‘Historical framing of the Ukraine Crisis through the Great Patriotic War: Performativity, cultural consciousness and shared remembering’ in Memory Studies. Volume 13. Issue 6. Pp 1058- 1080. First published Online First 2018.
Book Chapters:
- ‘Living Forms of Patriotism: Engaging Young Russians in Military History?’ in Youth and Memory in Europe: Defining the Past, Shaping the Future. Berlin: De Gruyter, April 2022.
- ‘The Great Unifier? War Narratives and Military History Tours in Kalmykia’ in Young Forum of Slavic Literary Studies 2020 Collected Papers. Stuttgart: Ibidem, May 2022.
- ‘Introduction to Memory and Methodology’ in Researching Memory and Identity in Russia and Eastern Europe – Interdisciplinary Methodologies (co-authored with Oliver Jones). Basingstoke:Palgrave Macmillan. September 2022.
- ‘Beyond Analogy: Historical Framing Analysis of Russian Political Discourse’ in Researching Memory and Identity in Russia and Eastern Europe – Interdisciplinary Methodologies. Basingstoke:Palgrave Macmillan, September 2022.
Research
Centre for Grand Strategy
The Centre for Grand Strategy seeks to bring a greater degree of historical and strategic expertise to statecraft, diplomacy and foreign policy.
News
King's continues to share crucial insights on the war in Ukraine
As the war in Ukraine enters its third year, academics from across the School of Security Studies at King’s College London continue to use their expertise to...
Academic insights on Israel and Gaza
Academics and researchers from King’s have shared their expertise around events in Israel and Gaza and the wider consequences of the ongoing conflict.
King's brings experts together to discuss the geopolitical impact of the War in Ukraine
The School of Security Studies at King's College London hosted the 60th Conflict Research Society Conference, an annual event that brings together experts to...
New book explores Russian support for the invasion of Ukraine
Dr Jade McGlynn, Researcher in the Department of War Studies, launched her recently published book 'Russia's War' at King's. The book provides new insights...
Events
Ax:son Johnson Institute presents the Engelsberg Applied History Annual Lecture 2024 with Professor Angela Stent
The United States, Europe, Russia, China and the New World Disorder.
Please note: this event has passed.
Book Launch: 'Who Will Defend Europe?' by Keir Giles
If the US steps away from the defence of Europe, and the British Armed Forces are hollowed out and still shrinking, who is left to protect us?
Collisions: The global origins of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Collisions is a book that explores the origins of Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
Please note: this event has passed.
Book launch 'Russia's War'
Join us for a discussion panel with Jane McGlynn, author of the book 'Russia's War' and researchers from the Department of War Studies.
Please note: this event has passed.
Research
Centre for Grand Strategy
The Centre for Grand Strategy seeks to bring a greater degree of historical and strategic expertise to statecraft, diplomacy and foreign policy.
News
King's continues to share crucial insights on the war in Ukraine
As the war in Ukraine enters its third year, academics from across the School of Security Studies at King’s College London continue to use their expertise to...
Academic insights on Israel and Gaza
Academics and researchers from King’s have shared their expertise around events in Israel and Gaza and the wider consequences of the ongoing conflict.
King's brings experts together to discuss the geopolitical impact of the War in Ukraine
The School of Security Studies at King's College London hosted the 60th Conflict Research Society Conference, an annual event that brings together experts to...
New book explores Russian support for the invasion of Ukraine
Dr Jade McGlynn, Researcher in the Department of War Studies, launched her recently published book 'Russia's War' at King's. The book provides new insights...
Events
Ax:son Johnson Institute presents the Engelsberg Applied History Annual Lecture 2024 with Professor Angela Stent
The United States, Europe, Russia, China and the New World Disorder.
Please note: this event has passed.
Book Launch: 'Who Will Defend Europe?' by Keir Giles
If the US steps away from the defence of Europe, and the British Armed Forces are hollowed out and still shrinking, who is left to protect us?
Collisions: The global origins of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Collisions is a book that explores the origins of Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
Please note: this event has passed.
Book launch 'Russia's War'
Join us for a discussion panel with Jane McGlynn, author of the book 'Russia's War' and researchers from the Department of War Studies.
Please note: this event has passed.