Truman Venters

Truman is a PhD Candidate in International Relations at the University of St Andrews. His project examines the legitimacy of the State and its institutions and seeks to recontextualize the concepts of consent and resistance, recognition, and personhood in the current era of Digital Governance.

Truman's project is supervised by Dr Natasha Saunders from the School of International Relations and by Dr Ognjen Arandjelovic from the School of Computer Science.

His main areas of interest and research include state theory, digital/algorithmic governance, Internet Politics, ethics in AI and Big Data, and human-computer interactions. Truman holds an MA in Political Science from the University of Liège (Belgium) and an MA in European Studies in Society, Science, and Technology from the University of Maastricht (Netherlands). He is fluent in German, English, and French; and is a recipient of the AD Links Foundation Scholarship at St Andrews.

Graduate Teaching Assistant

IR1005: Concepts in Global Politics

Researcher on Scotland's Future Series project Ethical Digital Nation (September-December 2024).