Dr. Giulia Garbagni

Giulia Garbagni joined the Centre for Statecraft and National Security at KCL as a Ax:son Johnson Post-doctoral Research Fellow in September 2023, after completing her PhD at the University of Cambridge. Her doctoral dissertation, titled ‘Presidential, Post-Imperial and Personal: Envoy Diplomacy in Japan, 1960s-1980s’ investigated the role of special envoys and executive agents in postwar Japanese diplomacy, drawing on research in Japanese, British, American, and South Korean archives. During her PhD, she was a AHRC IPS Fellow at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, in Washington DC; a Japan Foundation Doctoral Fellow at the University of Tokyo; and a Korea Foundation Fellow at Sogang University in Seoul.

Giulia holds a bachelor’s degree in international relations from the University of Bologna; a double MSc in International Affairs from Peking University and the London School of Economics; and a MSc in Modern Japanese Studies from the University of Oxford. Her research has been published in Cold War History, Nations and Nationalism, and The Journal of Burma Studies.

She is currently an Early Career Research Fellow at Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge.