Dr. Julian Schmid is an Assistant Professor in Security and Global Studies at American University in the Emirates. His research explores a wide range of topics, many of which focus on the intersections between popular culture and world politics, geopolitics, and violence. His doctoral thesis, completed at the University of Warwick (2021) focused on the role of superhero films and cinema for the construction of post-‘9/11’ security discourses and the ‘War on Terror’, and was nominated for the PSA Shirin M. Rai Prize for the best dissertation in International Relations.
He is the author of the recently released monograph “Marvel, DC and US Security: The Superhero Genre and Foreign Policy in the 21st Century”, published with Edinburgh University Press.
He has also previously taught on courses at the University of Warwick, Central European University, Sciences Po Paris, Charles University, Virginia Tech, Liverpool John Moores University, University of Lausanne, Vienna School of International Studies, and Coimbra University and Krems University. His current research interests encompass areas such as security discourses, political communication, US foreign policy, critical terrorism and military studies, as well as visual and digital politics.