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.