Elicia Coles
PhD candidate
Senior Graduate Teaching Assistant
Advice and feedback hours (term-time only): Tuesdays 10:30-11:30am in E2.03
Teaching email: elicia.coles.1@warwick.ac.uk
Research email: elicia.coles@warwick.ac.uk
Profile
I am a PhD student within the PAIS department. My supervisors are James Brassett and Christopher Browning.
My thesis explores the role that consumption plays in shaping, constructing and constituting US identity, exceptionalism and power at the individual, domestic and international level. It draws upon literature from popular culture and world politics to explore this.
Research
Alongside my current research, I am also interested in:
- The belief in American exceptionalism and the American Dream
- Popular culture and world politics
- US foreign policy
- US security studies
- International Political Economy
- The Everyday
- Constructivism and Critical Theory
Teaching
I am a seminar tutor for the 2025/26 academic module PO207: Politics of the USA.