Raluca Soreanu is Research Fellow at the Institute for Public Knowledge, and Doctoral Candidate in International Relations at University College London, United Kingdom.

Raluca’s research interests lie within sociology of knowledge, sociology of disciplinary change, sociology of creativity, sociology of emotions and critical theories in International Relations. Her doctoral dissertation looks at the ‘constructivist turn’ in the academic discipline of International Relations, while proposing a theory of outlaw emotions to account for change in intellectual fields, and while advancing a reflection on the nature and process of creativity. Another accent of Raluca’s research falls on feminist knowledge production and the ways in which various feminist projects have reshaped the organisation of knowledge in the social sciences. In her more recent work, Raluca looks at modes of identity advocacy and norm entrepreneurship in diplomatic exchanges during international crises, while aiming to formulate a theory of the diplomatic habitus.

Previously, Raluca was Teaching Fellow at University College London, with the course ‘International Relations Theories: Continental Perspectives’, and Visiting Scholar at the Wagner Graduate School, New York University. She holds an MA in International Relations and European Studies form Central European University in Budapest, Hungary (2006); an MA in Cultural Studies from Lund University, Sweden (2005); a BA in Sociology (2005) and a BA in Political Science (2005) from 'Babes-Bolyai' University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.