University Associate Professor in Gender Studies and Director, University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies, 2021- present (Senior Lecturer 2019-2021, title converted in 2021)
Deputy Director of the University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies. September 2013- Present.
Fellow, Selwyn College, Cambridge, 2014-Present.
PAST POSITIONS
Charles and Amy Scharf Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University. August 2011-August 2013
EDUCATION
2011 Ph.D. Political Science. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. Subfields: International Relations and Political Theory. Graduate minor in Feminist Studies. Dissertation Title: The Body of International Relations.Committee: Raymond Duvall (adviser), Ronald Krebs, Nancy Luxon and Naomi Scheman.
2004 M.Sc. International Relations. London School of Economics and Political Science. Distinction. Thesis: “Just and Manly Wars: Feminist Critiques of the Just War Tradition.”
2003 B.A. International Studies and Political Science, summa cum laude. Macalester College, MN USA
BOOKS, SINGLE-AUTHORED
Bodies of Violence: Theorizing Embodied Subjects in International Relations. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.
Best Book Award, International Theory Section, International Studies Association, 2016. Best Book Award, Feminist Theory and Gender Studies Section, International Studies Association, 2017. Honorable Mention, Yale Fergusen Book Award, ISA-North East, 2016.
ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS
“Colonial Lives of the Carceral Archipelago: Rethinking the Neoliberal Security State.” International Political Sociology 15, no 3 (2021): 415-439. Collective Discussion with Ida Danewid, Sabrina Axster, Matthew Mahmoudi, Cemel Burak Tansel, and Asher Goldstein.
“Politics of the Living Dead: Race and Exceptionalism in the Apocalypse” (With Stefanie Fishel). Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 45 no. 3, (2017), pp. 335-355. Special issue on Racialized Realities in International Relations.
“Practicing Gender, Queering Theory,” Review of International Studies 43, no 5 (2017), pp. 789-808.
“Drones, Swarms, and Becoming-Insect: Feminist Utopias and Posthuman Politics” Feminist Review, Special issue on Feminist Utopias and Dystopias. 116 no. 1 (2017), pp. 25-45.
“Embodying Algorithmic War: Gender, Race, and the Posthuman in Drone Warfare.” Security Dialogue 48 no. 1 (2017), pp. 11–28.
“Securing Methods, Practicing Critique: A Review of Methods and Critical Security Studies.” International Studies Review, 18 (2016), pp. 702–713.
“Explosive Bodies, Bounded States: Abjection and the Embodied Practice of Suicide Bombing,” International Feminist Journal of Politics, 16:1 (2013), pp. 66-85. (2012 Cynthia Enloe Award Honorable Mention).
“Gendering the Cult of the Offensive.” Security Studies 18:2 (Summer 2009) pp. 24-40. Reprinted in Gender and International Security, ed. Laura Sjoberg, 61-82. New York: Routledge, 2009.
CHAPTERS IN EDITED VOLUMES
“Swarm Warfare.” In More Posthuman Glossary, edited by Rosi Braidotti, Emily Jones, and Goda Klumbyte. London: Bloomsbury Academic Publishing, Forthcoming 2021.
“The Gender Politics of the Drone.” In Drone Imaginaries: The Power of Remote Vision, edited by Kathrin Maurer and Andreas Graae, 110-129. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2021.
“Bodies and Embodied Subjectivity.” In Routledge Handbook on Critical International Relations. Edited by Jenny Edkins, 305-318. London; New York: Routledge, 2019.
“Gendered Bodies in Securitized Migration Regimes.” In Handbook on Migration and Security, edited by Phillipe Bourbeau, 87-104. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017.
“Drones.” in Visual Global Politics. Edited by Roland Bleiker. London and New York: Routledge, 2017.
“Bodies.” In Making Things International I: Circulation. Edited by Mark Salter, 201-211. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015.
“Machines that Matter: The Politics and Ethics of ‘Unnatural’ Bodies.” In Battlestar Galactica and International Relations, Edited by Iver Neumann and Nicholas Kiersey. Routledge, 2013.
“Dying is Not Permitted: Sovereign Power and Force-Feeding at Guantánamo Bay.” In Torture, Democracy and the Human Body, edited by Shampa Biswas and Zahi Zalloua, 101-128. University of Washington Press, 2011.
“Gender, Justice and the Ethics of War and Peace.” In The International Studies Compendium Project, edited by Robert Denemark et al. 2714-2731. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
JOURNAL FORUMS
“The Biopolitics of the War on COVID-19.” In “Thinking Theoretically in Unsettled Times: COVID-19 and Beyond.” Jennifer Sterling-Folker, ed. International Studies Review, 23 no 3. (2021): 1100-1125.
“Drone Warfare and the Making of Bodies out of Place” Critical Studies of Security, 3 no. 1 (2015): 127-131.
“Queer Theory and the “Proper Objects” of IR,” forum on Queer International Relations. International Studies Review, 16 no. 4 (2014): 612-615.
“Making Bodies Matter in IR,” Forum on Iver Neumann, “International Relations as a Social Science,” Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 43 no. 1 (2014): 359–364.
“Beyond Sex/Gender: The Feminist Body of Security,” Politics & Gender 7 (December 2011): 595-600
BOOK REVIEWS
Review of Laura Sjoberg, Gendering Global Conflict for ISSF H-Diplo, Roundtable, Summer 2016.
Review of Megan Daigle, From Cuba With Love: Sex and Money in the Twenty-first Century (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2015), Times Literary Supplement, 22 May 2015.
Review of Banu Bargu, Starve and Immolate: The Politics of Human Weapons (New York: Columbia University Press, 2014), Radical Philosophy 191 (May/June 1015).
“Women’s Security and the Global Political Economy: Broadening the Research Agenda of Violence against Women,” review of Jacqui True, The Political Economy of Violence Against Women (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), International Studies Review 16:1 (March 2014) 123-125
Review of Helen Kinsella, The Image before the Weapon: A Critical History of the Civilian/Combatant Distinction (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2011), Contemporary Political Theory (2013) 12.
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