Personal profile

Research overview

Truman is a PhD Candidate in International Relations and a Fellow at the Centre for Global Law and Governance. His project examines the legitimacy of the State and the Law and seeks to recontextualize the concepts of consent and resistance, and 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 Democracy, Constitutional Theory, Social Contract Theory, Justice and Injustice, 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.

Teaching activity

Graduate Teaching Assistant

IR1005: Concepts in Global Politics

IR1006: Foreign Policy and Diplomacy in Global Politics

Keywords

  • BJ Ethics
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Big Data
  • D204 Modern History
  • science and technology
  • JA Political science (General)
  • JC Political theory
  • Political Philosophy
  • Phenomenology
  • Idealism
  • Anarchism
  • Post-colonialism
  • Post-structuralism
  • science and technology
  • JF Political institutions (General)
  • HM Sociology
  • K Law (General)
  • Theory