Emeritus Professor of Politics

• Director of Studies of Sandra Barkhof’s doctoral thesis: ‘European Integration and the Construction of a Common European Identity. University of Plymouth, 1999-2007
• Supervisor of Ian Murphy’s doctoral thesis: ‘An Analysis of the Potential for the use of Private Military and Security Companies in Conflict Handling and Peacebuilding’, 2006-2011
• Director of Studies of Bartosz Lyszkewicz’ doctoral thesis: ‘Nation Building and Nationalism in Poland Since 1918’: 2010-14
• Director of Studies of Adina Huma’s doctoral thesis: ‘Reproducing ‘geopolitics’ – national identity representations of foreign affairs in Moldova, 2010-15
• Director of Studies of Aneta Brockhill’s doctoral thesis: How does Structural Violence Affect Israeli-Palestinian Relations: the Barrier; a Case Study, 2011-2017
• Director of Studies of Annabelle Wolff’s doctoral thesis: The British Labour Party and the German Social Democratic Party: Changing Attitudes Towards the Welfare State, 2010-2017

• Comparative European Politics
• Ethnopolitics in Europe

K Cordell: ‘German Political Cultures, Continuity and Change’: Departmental Occasional Paper, Plymouth Polytechnic, 1987.

K Cordell: ‘Coming to Terms with Europe; The SPD in transition 1945-1957’. The European Unity in Context Conference, The University of Hull, September, 1990.

K Cordell: ‘Nation-Building in the GDR; The Failure of the SED’: The Annual European Consortium for Political Research Conference, The University of Essex, April, 1991

K Cordell: ‘Germany in Flux’: The Third Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, The University of Aalborg, August, 1992.

K Cordell: ‘The Re-awakening of the German National Right’: Research Seminar Paper at The University of Keele, February, 1993.

K Cordell: British Perspectives on German Unification: The Colloquium: Church-State-Society-Opposition in the GDR, The University of Leipzig, June, 1993.

K Cordell: The Churches in Leipzig and The Politics of Opposition; At the first Symposium, of the Everyday Life in Leipzig Research Consortium, The University of Keele, December, 1993.

K Cordell: Coming to Terms With Die Wende: The Churches in Leipzig Today: The Second Symposium of the Everyday Life in Leipzig Research Consortium, The University of Leipzig, March, 1994.

K Cordell: ‘European Union and the Nation State: The Politics of Hope Encounters the Politics of Experience’: The Fourth Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, The University of Graz, August, 1994.

K Cordell, T Sullivan: ‘Upper Silesia: From Conflict to Co-operation’: The Political Studies Annual Conference, University of York, April, 1995

K Cordell: ‘Retreat From Ethnicity:? Upper Silesia and Polish-German Relations’: Plymouth, Plymouth International Papers No. 2, April, 1995.

K Cordell: ‘Minority Rights and the Creation of a Civic Culture: The Case of Upper Silesia’: The Second Pan-European Conference in International Relations; National Foundation of Political Science, Paris, September, 1995.

K Cordell: ‘Nation and Citizenship in Upper Silesia’: The International Conference on the Constitutional Relationship of Ethnic Relations; The University of Ljubljana, March, 1996.

K Cordell: ‘Constitutional Protection, Education and the Preservation of Identity: The German Minority in Poland Today’: Conference on The Regulation and Monitoring of Ethnic Relations and Conflict, The Institute for Ethnic Studies, Ljubljana, Slovenia, November, 1997.

K Cordell: ‘The Politics of the Re-organisation of Regional and Local Government in Poland: the Case of Upper Silesia’, The Annual European Consortium for Political Research Conference, The University of Mannheim, March, 1998.

K. Cordell: ‘The Declining Relevance of the German Minority in Upper Silesia’, Presented at the Association for the Study of Nationalities Special Conference, Forli, Italy, 4-9 June, 2002

K. Cordell: The Creation of a ‘Multicultural Estonia’ and the Decline and Disappearance of the last of the Baltic Germans. Presented at the International Conference ‘Multicultural Estonia’. The Integration Foundation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Estonia. Tallinn, 24-25 October, 2002

K. Cordell: German-Polish Relations: Continuity and Change. Presented in the panel German-Czech, German-Polish Relations in the Twenty-First Century, a Comparison, at the European Consortium for Political Research Conference, University of Marburg, 18-21 September, 2003.

 K. Cordell: Only the Stones Remain. The Vanished Germans of Estonia and Latvia: Presented at ‘The Baltic States: New Europe or Old’ Conference, The University of Glasgow, 22-23 January 2004.

 K. Cordell: ‘Self Determination, Conflict Resolution and Civil Society in the wake of 11, September, 2001: the Case of Angola’, Presented at the European Consortium for Political Research Conference, Budapest, 8-11 September, 2005.

 K. Cordell: ‘Ethnicity and European Politics’, Presented at The Ethnicity Research Symposium, University of the West of England, 16 January 2006

 K. Cordell & S. Wolff: ‘Germany as a kin-state: the development and implementation of a norm-consistent foreign policy towards Central and Eastern Europe’, Presented at the Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, New York City, 15-19 April, 2006

 K. Cordell, Klose, Poldolski and Trochowski: Born in Poland, but Playing and Scoring for Germany, BMW Center for German and European Studies, University of Georgetown Working Paper, April 2009

 K. Cordell & S. Wolff, Imagined legacies: Memory and power-sharing in Opole Silesia, Presented at the panel: The Role of Memory and History in the Shaping of State Strategies for Managing Minority Nationalism in Post-Communist Europe, 15th ASN World Convention, Columbia University, New York City, 15-17 April 2010

 K. Cordell, Coming to Terms with the Past: The Role of Memory in German-Polish-Relations German Diaspora Workshop at Durham University, 22-3 June 2012

K. Cordell & S. Wolff, ‘Special Status: Can the Moldovan-Transnistrian Conundrum be Resolved by Consociational Democracy?” Presented at the Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Uppsala, 3 December 2013

 In addition, I review books and articles for journals including Contemporary European Politics, Contemporary Politics, Europe-Asia Studies, The European Journal of Political Research, German Politics, The Journal of Regional and Federal Studies and Nationalities Papers, Nations and Nationalism, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Political Studies, Slavic Review, and review manuscripts and proposals for Polity, Routledge and Palgrave/Macmillan. I have also reviewed research proposals on behalf of the ESRC.

Since 2007 I have been a member of the editorial board of Nationalities Papers, the first house journal of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN)

Since 2005, I have co-edited the fully externally refereed academic journal Ethnopolitics, published by Taylor & Francis. Ethnopolitics, which is the successor to The Global Review of Ethnopolitics, is now the second house journal of ASN.

In 2007 Taylor & Francis commissioned the editors of Ethnopolitics and Nationalities Papers as general editors for a series on politics and ethnicity, which has resulted in a number of publications.

In 2009, I became Associate Editor of the fully externally refereed academic journal Civil Wars, published by Taylor & Francis