My name is Laura Sjoberg. I am currently assistant professor of political science at the University of Florida. I am a graduate of the International Baccalaureate Program at Pensacola High School in Pensacola, Florida. I received my B.A. from the University of Chicago in 2001, my Ph.D. from the University of Southern California School of International Relations in 2004, and my J.D. from Boston College in 2007.

I am also an avid football fan (entirely coincidental, actually, but a Florida Gator; embarrassingly, my website has been orange and blue for years, as a gator tribute), a collector of puzzles, model trains, stuffed animals, and chihuahua puppies ... an amateur baker (emphasis on amateur), and a total geek for terrible reality TV shows. I am into web design enough to do it frequently, but never do it well. I have recently been learning a few cooler webtricks (some weak active server programming and some automatic blog uploading) that I will introduce soon.

I am the author of Gender, Justice, and the Wars in Iraq (Lexington Books, 2006) and, with Caron Gentry, Mothers, Monsters, Whores: Women's Violence in Global Politics (Zed Books, 2007), along with several edited volumes. My work has been published in a number of international relations journals, including the International Feminist Journal of Politics, International Studies Quarterly, International Studies Review, International Relations, International Politics, International Studies Perspectives, Politics and Gender, Feminist Review, and the Austrian Journal of Political Science. I teach courses in International Relations Theory, International Security, and Gender and International Relations. I have been a research fellow with the Center for International Studies at the University of Southern California, the Century Foundation, the Bannerman Foundation, the Boston Consortium for Gender, Security, and Human Rights, and the Women and Public Policy Program and Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

For now, this site encompasses my CV and research interests, my law school experience, and a number of other serious things, along with some cute puppy pictures.