Lena received her PhD from the university of Massachusetts Amherst in 2007. While completing her dissertation, she was a teaching assistant at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a visiting lecturer at Mount Holyoke College. Her dissertation focused on the role of identity in the decisions that states make regarding territorial disengagement.
Research interests include: IR theory, constructivism, identity, decolonisation, and Southeast Asian politics and security.
Publications include a book chapter on Indonesia’s disengagement from East Timor, and a reader on Asian politics (co-edited with Howard Wiarda).

BA (Smith College),
MSc (LSE),
PhD (Massachusetts)
Room 4N4
Office Hours:
Weds 3-5
Research Day:
Thursday