Complicity Studies

• Ana Leticia Blasi Magini (PhD student, Law, Cambridge)
• Sophie Dixon (PhD student, Criminology, Cambridge)
• Danny Shanahan (PhD Student, English, Cambridge)

Ana Leticia Blasi Magini is a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge, developing a thesis on individual culpability and collective participation in international crime. She has an LLM degree from the University of Cambridge and a law degree from the University of London. Before starting her PhD, Ana worked for two years as a legal officer at the International Criminal Court in The Hague. Ana taught LLM workshops in international criminal law at the University of Cambridge and was a lecturer at the University of Tallinn in international humanitarian law and cyber warfare. She has also served as a research assistant at the Harvard Law School Program on International Law and Armed Conflict, contributing to a research initiative on the protection of the environment in relation to international peace and security.

Sophie Dixon is a PhD candidate at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where she researches Network-Based Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE). Sophie completed a BSc in Psychology at the University of Birmingham in 2018 and an MPhil in Criminological Research at Magdalene College, Cambridge, in 2019. Sophie’s current research, funded by the ESRC Doctoral Training Partnership, focuses on the co-offending networks perpetrating CSE; their composition, modus operandi and network dynamics.

Danny Shanahan is a third-year PhD at the University of Cambridge. He completed his BA and MA in Comparative Literature at King’s College London, with his MA thesis concentrating on governmental complicity in sectarian violence in Irish and Indian partition fictions. His PhD project examines the relationship between literature and emergency law in Kashmir and Northern Ireland. He is one of the organisers of the graduate postcolonial and related literatures research group at Cambridge.