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Laura Sjoberg Laura Sjoberg University of Florida [email protected] Department of Political Science 352.575.8603 PO Box 117325 Anderson Hall www.laurasjoberG.com Gainesville, Florida 32611-7325 Education J.D. (Cum Laude), Boston ColleGe Law School Ph.D. (with Distinction), University of Southern California School of International Relations B.A. (with HiGh Honors) University of ChicaGo, in Political Science and History Academic Appointments 2012- Associate Professor, Political Science, University of Florida 2009-2012 Assistant Professor, Political Science, University of Florida 2008-2011 Faculty Research Affiliate, Women and Public Policy ProGram, Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government 2007-2009 Assistant Professor, Political Science, VirGinia Tech 2007 VisitinG Scholar, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, University of MichiGan 2006-2007 VisitinG Assistant Professor, Political Science, Duke University 2005-2006 Post-Doctoral Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and Women and Public Policy Program, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University 2006 VisitinG Assistant Professor, Women’s Studies, Merrimack ColleGe 2005 Lecturer, Politics and Women’s Studies, Brandeis University Special Training • Basin Harbor Workshop on Teaching Security Studies, Johns Hopkins University, 2009 • Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, University of MichiGan, 2008 • Journeys in World Politics, University of Iowa, 2007 • Executive Education: From Harvard Square to the Oval Office: Women in Politics, 2005-2006 • Graduate Certificate in Women’s Studies, University of Southern California, 2004 • Institute on Qualitative Research Methods (IQRM), Tempe, Arizona, January 2003 • Women in International Security Summer Symposium, June 2002 Areas of Research, Teaching, Speaking, and Media Consulting Feminist International Relations: gender and international security, gender and political leadership, women's violence in Global politics, Gender and terrorism, Gender and war ethics International Security: just war theorizinG, war ethics, civilian victimization, terrorism and terrorism studies Active Learning: gender and pedagogy, mock trial, model united nations, policy debate Law: race, Gender, and intersectionality; international law 1 Publications Books • Rape Among Women: Women Genocidal Rapists in Wars’ Histories, New York University Press, under contract, in proGress. • Gendering Global Conflict: Towards a Feminist Theory of War, Columbia University Press, 2013. • (with Caron Gentry) Mothers, Monsters, Whores: Women’s Violence in Global Politics. London: Zed Books, 2007. • Gender, Justice, and the Wars in Iraq. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2006. Textbooks • (with Sinan Birdal), (Gendered) International Relations, Oxford University Press, under contract, in proGress. • Gender, War, and Conflict, Polity Press, under contract, in proGress. Edited Books • (with Caron Gentry) Women, Gender, and Terrorism, Athens, GA: University of GeorGia Press, 2011. • Feminism and International Relations: Conversations about the Past, Present, and Future (with J. Ann Tickner), 2011. • (with Sandra Via) Gender, War, and Militarism, New York: Praeger Security Int’l, 2010. • Section Editor, Feminist Theory and Gender Studies, International Studies Compendium (general editor Bob Denemark); New York: Wiley-Blackwell (first edition, 2010). • Gender and International Security: Feminist Perspectives. London: RoutledGe, 2010. • (with Amy Eckert) Rethinking 21st Century Security: ‘New’ Problems, ‘Old’ Solutions, London: Zed Books, 2009 (translated into Arabic and published by the National Center for Translation in EGypt, 2012) Journal Editorships International Feminist Journal of Politics (with Cynthia Weber and Heidi Hudson), 2011- Book Series • “Gender and Political Violence,” Edited Book Series at New York University Press. • “The Oxford Series in Gender and International Relations,” Co-Edited Book Series (with J. Ann Tickner) at Oxford University Press. Journal Special Issues • “Security Studies: Feminist Contributions,” Edited Special Issue of the Journal Security Studies, 18(2), July 2009, 183-369. • “The State of Feminist Security Studies,” Edited Critical Perspectives section (with Jennifer Lobasz) of the Journal Politics and Gender, December 2011, 7(4):573-604. 2 Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles • “International Peace One Hundred Years on: Views through Gender Lenses,” Ethics and International Affairs 27(2) (2013):1-13. • “The Terror of Sex: Significations of Al Qaeda Wives,” Journal of Post-Colonial Cultures and Societies, forthcominG, May/June 2013. • “Feminist IR 101: Teaching Through Blogs,” International Studies Perspectives, forthcominG, published online before in an issue: DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-3585.2012.00475/x. • “Towards Transgendering International Relations?,” International Political Sociology, 6(4) (2012): 337-354. • (with Laura Shepherd) “Trans-Bodies in/of Wars: Cis-privileGe and Contemporary Security Strategies,” Feminist Review, 101 (July 2012): 5-23. • “Gender Hierarchy, International Structure, and the Causes of War” International Theory 4(1) (2012): 1-38. • “Looking Forward: Conceptualizing Feminist Security Studies,” Politics and Gender 7(4) (December 2011): 600-4. • “Emotion, Risk, and Feminist International Relations Research,” International Studies Review, 13(4) (December 2011): 699-703. • (with Jessica Peet) “A(nother) Dark Side of the Protection Racket: Targeting Women in Wars,” International Feminist Journal of Politics 13(2) (July 2011):163-82. • “The Paradox of Double Effect: How Feminism Can Save the Immunity Principle,” Women’s Policy Journal 7(1) (May 2011): 1-25. • “Gender, the State, and War Redux: Feminist International Relations Across the ‘Levels of Analysis’” International Relations, March 2011, 25(1): 108-134. • “Women Fighters and the ‘Beautiful Soul’ Narrative,” International Review of the Red Cross, 92(877) (March 2010): 53-68. • “Security Studies: Feminist Contributions.” Security Studies, 18(2) (June 2009): 183-213. • “Feminist InterroGations of Terrorism/Terrorism Studies.” International Relations, 23(1) (March 2009): 69-74. • (with Caron Gentry) “ProfilinG Terror: GenderinG the Strategic Logic of Suicide Terror and other Narratives.” Austrian Journal of Political Science, 2008/2: 181-196. • “Scaling IR Theory: Geography’s Contribution to Where IR Takes Place.” International Studies Review, 10(3) (August 2008): 471-499. • “The Norm of Tradition: Gender Subordination and Women’s Exclusion in International Relations.” Politics and Gender, 4(1) (March 2008): 73-80. • (with Caron Gentry) “Reduced to Bad Sex: Narratives of Violent Women from the Bible to the War on Terror.” International Relations, 22(1) (March 2008): 5-23. • “Why Just War Needs Feminism Now More Than Ever.” International Politics, 45(1) (January 2008): 1-18. • “Gender and Personal Pedagogy: Some Observations.” International Studies Perspectives 8(3) (Summer 2007): 336-339. • “Agency, Militarized Femininity, and Enemy Others.” International Feminist Journal of Politics 9(1) (January 2007): 82-101. 3 • “The Gendered Realities of the Immunity Principle: Why Gender Analysis Needs Feminism.” International Studies Quarterly 50(4) (December 2006): 889-910. Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters • (with Jonathon Whooley) “New Discourse, Old Orientalism: A Critical Evaluation of the ‘Arab SprinG for Women’?,” in John Davis, ed. The Arab Spring and Arab Thaw: Unfinished Revolutions and the Quest for Democracy, AshGate, forthcominG, 2013. • “Gender-Based Violence in War,” in Jennifer Mathers, ed. Handbook on Gender and War, Edward ElGar PublishinG, forthcominG, 2013. • (with J. Ann Tickner) “Feminism.” In International Relations Theories, edited by Steve Smith, Tim Dunne, and Milja Kurki, Oxford: Oxford University Press (3rd edition, forthcoming, 2013; 2nd edition, 2010; first edition, 2006), 185-222. • “Feminist Approaches to Political Leadership,” in Paul ‘t Hart and R. A. W. Rhodes, Oxford Handbook of Political Leadership, Oxford University Press, forthcominG, 2013. • “Morality, Legality, and Health: The Influence of the Grounds of Abortion LeGality on Abortion-Related Health Issues,” in Lyn Boyd-Judson and Patrick James, Women’s Global Health: Ethical Norms and State Policies, Vanderbilt University Press, forthcominG, 2013. • “The Inseparability of Gender Hierarchy, Just War, and the LeGitimacy of War(s)” in Cian O’Driscoll, Anthony Lang, and John Williams, eds. The Just War Tradition: The Practice of Authority and Authorty in Practice, GeorGetown University Press, forthcominG, 2013. • “Just War without Civilians,” in The Future of Just War: New Critical Essays, eds. Amy Eckert and Caron Gentry, Athens, GA: University of GeorGia Press, forthcominG, 2013. • (with J. Ann Tickner), “Feminist Perspectives on International Relations,” in Handbook of International Relations, 2nd edition, eds. Walter Carlsnaes, Thomas Risse, and Beth Simmons, London: Sage, 2012, 170-194. • (with Jeffrey Horowitz) “Quantitative Methods in Critical Security Studies,” in Laura J. Shepherd, ed. Critical Approaches to Security: Theories and Methods, Routledge, 2012. • “Feminist Reflections on Political Violence,” Ashgate Research Companion to Political Violence, ed. Marie Breen-Smyth. Aldershot: AshGate, 2012, 261-280. • “ArGuing Gender and International Relations,” in Unbounded International Relations: An Alkerian Approach to Global Studies in an Interconnected World, ed. Renee Marlin-Bennett. London: Routledge, 2011, 55-68. • (with Grace Cooke and Stacey Reiter
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