Linnea Turco
Linnea Turco Pronouns: she/her Office: 1155 E 60th St, 291E Email
Assistant Instructional Professor

Linnea Turco is Assistant Instructional Professor in the Committee on International Relations. She received her PhD in Political Science from the Ohio State University in 2021 where she specialized in international relations and political methodology. She holds a BA in International Affairs from the Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University (2014). Dr. Turco's research is broadly motivated by an interest in international morality and a desire to understand how moral discourse shapes international politics. Her work uses text-as-data methods to investigate states' preferences and moral commitments vis-a-vis issues such as nuclear weapons and climate change. Dr. Turco is the primary instructor of the Global Governance, Rights and Norms core seminar in CIR. She also offers an elective course on international ethics and normative approaches to global politics. In her spare time, she enjoys playing tennis.