• African history and politics
• Postcolonial theory and global North-South relations
• Political violence and anti-colonial struggles
• International humanitarian law

Working title: The Politics of Definition in Public International Law: The Case of Occupation in Western Sahara

Since September 2025: Assistant for European Global Studies (Prof. Ralph Weber) at the Institute for European Global Studies, University of Basel

October 2024 – July 2025: Internship at the Embassy of Switzerland in Maputo, Mozambique

August 2023 – August 2024: Student Assistant at the Institute for European Global Studies, University of Basel

May 2022 – September 2024: Student Assistant for the SNSF Research Project Reversing the Gaze – Towards Post-Comparative Area Studies, Centre for African Studies, University of Basel

September 2021 – July 2024: M.A. in European Global Studies, University of Basel (insigni cum laude), title of M.A. thesis: ‘Terrorist, Freedom Fighter or Combatant? Analysis of Processes of Categorisation in Social Constructionism andInternational Humanitarian Law and their Impact on Non-State Actors Engagedin Anti-Colonial Struggles’

September 2017 – June 2021: B.A. in European Studies, Trinity College Dublin (first class honours)

O’Neill, N. and Ndahafa Ilunga, N. (2025). Trade Unions and the Reform of the Migrant Labour Systems in Namibia and Switzerland, 1970–2007. In L. Lenggenhager et al. (Eds.), Histories and Legacies of Migrant Labour in Namibia and Switzerland. Basel: Basler Afrika Bibliographien, 102–171. https://www.baslerafrika.ch/product/migrant-labour-in-namibia-and-switzerland/. 

O’Neill, N. (2025). Bridging Meaning across Disciplines: Construction, Interpretation and Categorisation in Armed Conflict. Global Europe – Basel Papers on Europe in a Global Perspective 126, 36–63. https://europa.unibas.ch/fileadmin/user_upload/europa/PDFs_Basel_Papers/EIB_BP_126_03.pdf.