Education

Ph.D.  2004  University of Southern California School of International Relations (with Distinction)

• Graduate Certificate in Gender Studies
• Committee: Ann Tickner, Haywar Alker, Alice Gambrell
• Dissertation Title: "Gendering Just War: Feminist Ethics, Justice, and the Wars in Iraq"

J.D.    2007  Boston College Law School (Cum Laude)

• Specialization: Race, Gender, and International Law
• 2006-2007, Visiting Scholar, University of North Carolina Law School

B.A.    2001 University of Chicago, in Political Science and History, with High Honors

• History Thesis: "Can We Trust Trusteeship?"
• Political Science Thesis: "Towards a Feminist Theory of Sanctions"
• Extracurricular Activities: Policy Debate, Mock Trial, Model United Nations

Other Training

Summer 2009: Basin Harbor Workshop on Teaching Security Studies, run by Johns Hopkins University.

Summer 2008: Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research. Courses taken: Regression II, Matrix Algebra, Time Series Analysis

2007: Journeys in World Politics, University of Iowa

2005-2006: From Harvard Square to the Oval Office, Executive Education Training for Women Interested in Seeking Public Office, Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government

Winter 2003: Institute for Qualitative Research Methods (IQRM)

Summer 2002: Women in International Security Summer Symposium

Summer 1999: Alan Sagner Fellow, The Century Foundation Public Policy Training Program

Academic Appointments

Assistant Professor, Political Science, University of Florida, 2009-

Assistant Professor, Political Science (with faculty affilatins with Women's Studies and the Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Thought (ASPECT)), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 2007-2009

Visiting Assistant Professor,  Political Science, Duke University, 2006-2007

Visiting Assistant Professor, Women’s Studies, Merrimack College, 2006

Lecturer, Politics and Women’s Studies, Brandeis University, 2005-2006

Research Appointments

Faculty Affiliate, Women and Public Policy Program, Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government, 2008-2009

Visiting Scholar, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, University of Michigan, Summer 2008

Research Fellow, Women and Public Policy Program, Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government, 2006-2007

Postdoctoral Fellow, Women and Public Policy Program and Belfer Center for Science in International Affairs, Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government, 2005-2006

Postdoctoral Fellow, The Boston Consortium on Gender, Security and Human Rights, Tufts University, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, 2005-2006

Research and Teaching Interests
Gender and feminist theory in national and global politics, international security and conflict, quantitative and qualitative methods, the Middle East

Publications
Books (details)

Gender, Justice, and the Wars in Iraq. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2006.

(with Caron Gentry) Mothers, Monsters, Whores: Women’s Violence in Global Politics. London: Zed Books, 2007.

Gendering Global Conflict: Towards a Feminist Theory of War (under contract, Columbia University Press)

Edited Volumes

(with Amy Eckert) Old Solutions to New Problems: Rethinking 21st Century Security, London: Zed Books, 2009.

(with Carol Cohn) Women and War: Contested Histories, Uncertain Futures. London: Polity, forthcoming, 2009.

Gender and International Security: Feminist Perspectives. London: Routledge, forthcoming, 2009.

Gender, War, and Militarism (edited with Sandra Via, under review)

Journal Special Issue

Security Studies: Feminist Contributions. Security Studies 18(2), 2009.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles (details)

The Gendered Realities of the Immunity Principle: Why Gender Analysis Needs Feminism. International Studies Quarterly v.50, n.4, December 2006, 889-910.

Agency, Militarized Femininity, and Enemy Others. International Feminist Journal of Politics v.9, n.1, January 2007, 82-101.

Gender and Personal Pedagogy:  Some Observations. International Studies Perspectives v.8, n.3, Summer 2007, 336-339.

Why Just War Needs Feminism Now More Than Ever. International Politics, v.45, n.1, January 2008, 1-18.

(with Caron Gentry) Reduced to Bad Sex: Narratives of Violent Women from the Bible to the War on Terror. International Relations, v.22, n.1, March 2008, 5-23.

The Norm of Tradition: Gender Subordination and Women’s Exclusion in International Relations. Politics and Gender, v.4, n.1, March 2008, 73-80.

Scaling IR Theory: Geography’s Contribution to Where IR Takes Place. International Studies Review, v.10, n.3, August 2008, 471-499.

(with Caron Gentry) Profiling Terror: Gendering the Strategic Logic of Suicide Terror and other Narratives. Austrian Journal of Political Science, 2008/2: 181-196.

Feminist Interrogations of Terrorism/Terrorism Studies. International Relations, v.23, n.1, March 2009.

Introduction to Security Studies: Feminist Contributions. Security Studies, 18, no.2 (Apr-June 2009): 183-213

Book Series

"Gender and Political Violence," edited series, New York University Press

Book Chapters

(with J. Ann Tickner) Feminism. In International Relations Theories, edited by Steve Smith, Tim Dunne, and Milja Kurki, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. (second edition 2009)

Sanctions as War: Clausewitz, Bentham, Communication, and Punishment. In New Problems, Old Solutions: Rethinking 21st Century Security, eds. Amy Eckert and Laura Sjoberg. London: Zed Books, 2008.

Feminism and Styles of Political Leadership. In Political Leadership, edited by Mikhail Molchanov and Joe Masciulli, London: Ashgate, 2008.

(with Jillian Martin) Feminist Security Theory. In International Studies Compendium, ed. Bob Denemark. London: Blackwell, forthcoming, 2009.

Gendering Power Transition Theory. In Gender and International Security, ed. Laura Sjoberg. London: Routledge, 2009

Gender, Just War, and Non-State Actors. In Ethics, Authority, and War: Non-State Actors and the Just War Tradition, ed. Brent Steele and Eric Heinze, New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2009.

Feminist Perspectives on International Relations. With J. Ann Tickner. Handbook of International Relations (2nd edition), ed. Walter Carlsnaes, Beth Simmons, and Thomas Risse, London: Sage, forthcoming, 2010.

Feminist Perspectives on Political Violence, Ashgate Research Companion to Political Violence, ed. Marie Breen-Smyth, Aldershot: Ashgate, forthcoming, 2010.

Reconstructing Womanhood in Post-Conflict Rwanda, in Women, War, and Violence: Personal Perspectives and Global Activism, ed. Robin M. Chandler, Lihua Wang, and Linda K. Fuller , Palgrave, forthcoming, 2010.

Women and the Genocidal Rape of Other Women: Gendered Dynamics of Gendered War Crimes,” in Confronting Gender Justice: Women’s Lives, Human Rights, eds. Debra Bergoffen, Paula Ruth Gilbert, Tamara Harvey, and Connie L. McNeely, Routledge, forthcoming.

Other

Civility in Rwandan Reconstruction. Case Study, Atlantic Coast Conferemce Inter-Institutional Academic Collaborative Student Leadership Conference, February 20-22, 2009.

Finding Women in Wars and Conflicts, Essay in the Newsletter of the Academic Council of the United Nations System (ACUNS). February 2009.

Mothers, Monsters, Whores: Women's Violence in Global Politics. Meeting Report of the Boston Consortium on Gender, Security, and Human Rights, October 31, 2007.

Gendering the War in Iraq. Meeting Report of the Boston Consortium on Gender, Security, and Human Rights, February 13, 2007.

Emerging Issues: Youth, Gender, and the Changing Nature of Armed Conflict (with Ibrahim Bangura, Myriam Denov, Jennifer Klot, Irma Specht, Julie Stevens, and Christina Yeung), Report for PeaceBuild: The Canadian Peacebuilding Network, February 2008.

The Paradox of Double Effect: How Feminism Can Save the Immunity Principle. Boston Consortium on Gender, Security and Human Rights Working Paper 3-1; www.genderandsecurity.org/working.htm

(edited with Paul Chaiken) Maine Rules of Professional Conduct, Maine Bar Association, 2006.

Reviews Published

Bormann, Natalie. 2008. National Missile Defence and the Politics of U.S. Identity: A Poststructural Critique in Presidential Studies Quarterly  (December 2009), p.957-58.

Robin L. Riley and Naeem Inayatullah, Interrogating Imperialism: Conversations on Gender, Race, and War (International Studies Review, July 2009).

Cynthia Cockburn. 2007. From Where We Stand: War, Women’s Activism, and Feminist Analysis, Zed Books (Feminist Review, February 2009)

Yasmin Husein Al-Jawaheri. 2008. Women in Iraq: The Gender Impact of International Sanctions, IB Tauris (European Journal of Women’s Studies, 2009)

George Fletcher and Jens Davis Ohlin. 2008. Defending Humanity: When Force Is Justified and Why, Oxford University Press (Choice, September 2008)

Monique Deveaux. 2007. Gender and Justice in Multicultural Liberal States, Oxford University Press (Choice, May 2008)

Joost Hiltermann. 2007. A Poisonous Affair: America, Iraq, and the Gassing of Halabja, Cambridge University Press (Choice, February 2008)

Julie Mertus and Jeffrey Helsing, eds. 2006. Human Rights and Conflict: Exploring the Linkages between Rights, Law, and Peacebuilding, United States Institute of Peace (Choice, September 2007)

David Malone. 2006. The International Struggle over Iraq: The Politics of the United Nations Security Council, Cambridge University Press(Choice, August 2007)

Under Review

 “The Gendered Just War Narrative as a Linchpin of the Gendering of Security,” revised and resubmitted, Security Dialogue

(edited with Sandra Via) Gender, War, and Militarism, under review, University of Pennsylvania Press

“Gendering the Empire’s Soldiers: Gendered Ideologies, the United States Military, and the War on Terror,” for inclusion in Gender, War, and Militarism

(edited with J. Ann Tickner) Conversations in Feminist International Relations, under review, Columbia University Press

WomenFighters and the "Beautiful Soul Narrative," invited contribution to the International Review of the Red Cross

Current Research Projects

Book project: Gendering Global Conflict

Book project: Sex and Sex Subordination: Women and the Genocidal Rape of Other Women (for my series at NYU Press)

“Feminism for Realists: Strategy and Gender in National Security Policy,” for submission to International Security

“What’s Wrong with the Democratic Peace? Views from a Feminist Perspective,” for submission to the American Political Science Review

Gender Hierarchy as a Permissive Cause of War,” for submission to Politics and Gender

(at prospectus stage, textbook, commissioned) International Relations as if Gender Mattered, Rowman and Littlefield

Professional Service and Affiliations

Leadership Positions

Feminist Theory and Gender Studies Section of the International Studies Association: Program Chair, 2007-2009; Section Chair, 2009-2010; Webmaster, 2006-Present

International Studies Association, West Region: Program Co-Chair, 2007-2009; President for 2009-2010; Webmaster, 2006-Present

International Studies Association, Northeast Region: Program Chair, 2009-2010, President-Elect 2010-2011, President 2011-2012

Member, 2009-2012, International Studies Association Governing Council

Member, 2009-2011, International Studies Association Professional Development Committee

Member, Editorial Board, Feminist Theory and Gender Studies Section, International Studies Compendium

Northeast Political Science Association Women’s Caucus, Program Chair, 2006-2008

Boston Consortium on Gender, Security and Human Rights: Member of the Board of Directors, 2006-Present; Webmaster, 2006-Present

Awards

• International Studies Association Working Group Grant, 2010 ($5000)
• Service Award, Feminist Theory and Gender Studies Section of the International Studies Association, 2009
• “Simulating Comparative Politics,” University Provost’s Office Summer Sessions Grant, Virginia Tech, 2008 ($5000)
• (with Craig Brians), “Learning Outcome Assessment for Political Science/International Studies,” Office of Academic Assessment Grant, Virginia Tech, 2008 ($2100)
• (with Craig Brians), “Interdisciplinary Learning Outcome Assessment for the Social Sciences,” Center for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Interdisciplinary Teaching Grant, 2008 ($2880)
• Institute for Society, Culture, and the Environment, Virginia Tech, Research Grant, 2008 ($5000)
• Best Paper Award, Women in Politics, American Political Science Association, 2006
• International Studies Association Workshop Grant, Security Studies: Feminist Contributions, 2007 (with Susan Peterson, editor-in-chief of Security Studies) ($5000)
• International Studies Association Workshop Grant, Old Solutions to New Problems: Rethinking 21st Century Security (with Amy Eckert, co-Program Chair of ISA-West) ($5000)
• Departmental Research Grant, Duke University, Department of Political Science, 2006-2007 ($200)
• Kenan Institute for Ethics Faculty Grant, Duke University, 2006 ($2000)
• University of Southern California, University Best Dissertation, 2004 ($1000)
• Boston College Law School Merit Scholarship, 2004-2007
• International Studies Association Travel Grants, 2005, 2006
• International Studies Association Northeast Travel Grant, 2005
• University of Southern California Center for International Studies Dissertation Fellowship, Summer 2004 ($5000)
• University of California at Santa Barbara Center for the Study of Sexuality in the Military Research Fellowship, 2003-2004 ($500)
• Contributing Editor, Journal of Public and International Affairs, 2003.
• Best Student Paper Award, ISA-West, 2002 ($500)
• University of Southern California Center for International Studies Pre-Dissertation Fellow, Summer 2002 ($3000)
• Bannerman Foundation Fellow in International Relations, 2001-2002 ($18000)
• Alan Sagner Fellow, the Century Foundation, 1999-2000

Selected Recent Invited Presentations

1. "Gender and Security," University of Florida Political Science Honors Society, September 28, 2009
2. “Gender and Alternative Dispute Resolution,” University of Florida Frederic Levin College of Law, September 22, 2009
3. “Gender Hierarchy as a Permissive Cause of War,” Invited Address to the Women and Public Policy Program, Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government, April 23, 2009
4. “Women: Armed and Dangerous,” Invited Presentation at Lancaster University, March 20, 2009
5. “Issues in Wartime Rape,” Virginia State University, February 27, 2009
6. “Gender and Leadership,” Atlantic Coast Conference Inter-University Academic Collaborative, February 21, 2009
7. “Mothers, Monsters, Whores: Women’s Violence in Global Politics,” Invited Address to the Political Science Club at the University of Virginia, November 19, 2008
8. “Through Feminist Lenses: Women’s Violence in Global Politics,” Invited Address in the “Through Feminist Eyes” Annual Lecture Series, Women’s Studies Program and Campus Women’s Center, Virginia Tech, November 12, 2008
9. “Exploring the Implications of Women’s Violence against Women,” Invited Presentation to the Women’s Studies Faculty, Virginia Tech, November 10, 2008
10. “How Will ‘She’ Decide? Gender Expectations and Political Leadership,” Invited Presentation to the student body, Hollins University, April 8, 2008
11. “Can Gender Improve Strategy? Unlikely Bedfellows of Feminism and Realism,” Invited Presentation, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government, November 1, 2007
12. “Gendering the Empire’s Soldiers: Gendered Ideologies, the United States Military, and the War on Terror,” Invited address to a conference on Gender, War, and Militarism, University of Pennsylvania, October 26, 2007
13. “Mothers, Monsters, Whores: Women’s Violence in Global Politics.” (with Caron Gentry), Invited Presentation, Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government, April 9, 2007
14. “Will There Be a Just End in Iraq? Observations from a Feminist Standpoint,” Invited Presentation, Boston Consortium on Gender, Security and Human Rights, Tufts University, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, February 14, 2007
15. “Gender, Justice, and the Wars in Iraq,” Invited Address to the Graduate Consortium on Gender Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, February 13, 2007
16. “Gender and the Political Practice of Just War Stories” Invited Presentation, Institute for Women and Gender Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, December 1, 2006
17. “Gender, Justice, and the Wars in Iraq” Invited Presentation, Department of Political Science, University of Michigan, Dearborn, November 30, 2006
18. “Mean Girls: Women’s Violence in Global Politics.” Invited Presentation, Political Science Department, Duke University, November 26, 2006
19. “Empathetic War-Fighting.” Invited Presentation, Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government, November 9, 2006

Selected Research Presentations

2010 Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association
1. (with Catia Confortini) “The Power of Peace”
2. “Gender and the Causes of War”

2009 Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association-Northeast, “Feminist Security Theorizing”

2009 Annual Meeting of the International Studies-Association-West
1. “Gender, Just War, and Non-State Actors”
2. “Economic Sanctions and Bentham” on Authors Meet Critics Panel for Laura Sjoberg and Amy Eckert, eds. Rethinking the 21st Century
3. “Gender and War: A System-Level Theory?”

2009 Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association,“The Gendered Dynamics of Gendered War Crimes: Women’s Perpetration of Genocidal Rape”

 2008 Annual Meeting of the National Women’s Studies Association, “Gendering the Empire’s Soldiers: Just War and Gendered Hero Stories”

2008 Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association-Northeast (in October 2008), “Gendering Global Conflict: Towards a Feminist Theory of War(?)”

2008 Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association-West (in September 2008)

1. Authors Meet Critics Panel: Mothers, Monsters, Whores: Women’s Violence in Global Politics, by Laura Sjoberg and Caron Gentry
2. “Gendered Strategies: Towards a Feminist Theory of War”

2008 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (in August 2008)

1. with Lisa Prugl, organizing and teaching a short course for 50 people on “Doing Feminist Research in International Relations”
2. Organized panel, “The Personal is International: Women’s Lives, Gender Roles, and International Security”
3. “Gendered Tales of Gendered Perpetrators: Looking for ‘the Women’ in the Rwandan Genocide”

Global Gender Justice Conference, George Mason University, April 17, 2008, “Women and the Genocidal Rape of Other Women: Studies in Gender Subordination?”

2008 Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association

1. “Sanctions and Economic Coercion: Can Old Solutions Address New Dilemmas?”
2. “Will They Every Understand? Looking Forward from 20 Years of Feminist IR”
3. “Gender, Power Transitions, and the Rise of China”
4. (roundtable presentations) “The State of the Field: Feminist IR,” “Confronting Terrorism: Bridging Multiple Divides,” and “Democracy and the FTGS Section”

2007 Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association-West

1. “Will We Ever Make Anything of Feminism and Realism?”
2. (with Douglas Becker) “The Teacher Never Calls on Me: Gender and Active Learning”
3. (at “New Problems, Old Solutions” Workshop) “Bentham, sanction, and Sanctions”
4. 2007 Journeys in World Politics conference, “Feminism, Realism: Strategy, Fortuity”

2007 Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association

1. “Feminism for Realists and Realism for Feminists: A Theory of International Relations”
2. (with Caron Gentry) “Mean Girls: Seeing Gender Subordination with Women’s Violence”
3. (roundtable presentations) “The Status of Women in the International Studies Association” and “Gender and Active Learning”
4. (at “Security Studies: Feminist Contributions” Workshop) “Gendering Power Transition Theory”
5. (with Christopher Marcoux) “The Rational Design of International Institutions? A Study of the Kyoto Protocol”

2006 Annual Meeting of International Studies Association-Northeast, “Whither the Relevance of Realism to Feminist International Relations Theory?”

2006 Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association-West

1. (roundtable) “Author Meets Critics: Gender, Justice, and the Wars in Iraq”
2. (with Caron Gentry) “Reduced to Bad Sex: The Racialized Pornographization of Violent Women in the War on Terror”
3. (roundtable presentation) “Gender and Active Learning”
4. “Feminism for Realists: Gender and Grand Strategy in the 21st Century”

2006 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association,

1. (with Christopher Marcoux) “Was Iraq a Threat to International Peace and Security? A Multimethod Approach”
2. “The Gendered Realities of the Immunity Principle: Why Gender Analysis Needs Feminism” (winner, Best Paper, Women and Politics Research Section)

2006 Annual Meeting of the New England Political Science Association

1. "Feminism for Realists: Strategy and the Implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325"
2. "Empathy as a Guiding Principle for Just War theory”

2006 Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association,

1. "Does the female sex criminal turn feminism upside down? Women, the State, and War”
2. (roundtable presentation) “The state of feminist security theory”

2005 Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Political Science Association

1.  “Feminist justice for just war ”
2.  “Gendered Torture: Observations from Abu Ghraib"

2005 Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association-West, “Feminist insights into gender for the 21st century”

2005 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, “Moving Just War Theory into the 21st century”

2005 Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, “Race, Sex, and Torture: Feminist Visions of the War in Iraq”

2004 Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association,

1.  “Emancipatory Feminist Method: Some Applicatory Suggestions”
2.  (roundtable presentation) “The Implementation of Resolution 1325 in Iraq”   

2003 Annual Meeting of the Western Social Science Association (WSSA), “‘Just War’ or Just War:  Feminisms, Just War Theory, and Sanctions on Iraq"

2003 Annual Meeting of the Northeast Political Science Association 2003, “Gendering Just War: Feminist Evaluations of ‘Operation Iraqi Freedom.’”

2003 Annual Meeting of International Studies Association-West

1. “Gendering Just War: Feminist Evaluations of Economic Sanctions”
2. “Mathematics as Emancipatory Feminist Method”

2003 Annual Meeting of the National Women’s Studies Association, “The Gendered Humynitarian situation in Iraq: A Postmodern Feminist Interpretation”

2003 Institute on Qualitative Research Methods (IQRM), “Snapshots in Security: Feminisms’ Reformulations of Economic Sanctions on Iraq”