Contributor Information
Linda Åhäll was awarded her PhD from the University of Birmingham, UK, in 2011. Her research interests include post-structuralist feminism, critical security studies, popular culture and IR as well as the role of emotions in world politics. Recent publications include journal articles in the International Feminist Journal of Politics and Security Dialogue, as well as the co-edited volume Gender, Agency and Political Violence with the chapter ‘Confusion, Fear, Disgust: Emotional communication in representations of female agency in political violence’. She is Lecturer in International Relations at Keele University. Academic profile page: http://www.keele.ac.uk/spire/staff/ahalllinda/.
Soumita Basu is an Assistant Professor of International Relations at the South Asian University (SAU), New Delhi. Her research interests include critical security studies, feminist International Relations, and the United Nations. She holds a PhD in International Politics from Aberystwyth University, and has conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles (as Hayward R. Alker Postdoctoral Fellow) and Kenyon College in Ohio (as Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow). Soumita has worked with Women in Security, Conflict Management and Peace (New Delhi) and the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (New York). Currently, she co-edits the Conversations section of the International Feminist Journal of Politics. Academic profile page: http://www.southasianuniversity.org/Faculties/FSS/IR/Soumita_webpage.html.
Shampa Biswas is Associate Professor of Politics at Whitman College. Her research interests include issues of nationalism, security, globalization, global development, postcolonial theory and South Asian politics. She has a co-edited (with Sheila Nair) volume titled Margins, Peripheries and Excluded Bodies: International Relations and States of Exception (Routledge, 2009) and various other publications on South Asian nuclearization, political violence, race in international relations, religious nationalisms, and the nation-state in the context of globalization.
Ruth Blakeley’s research focuses on the use of state violence and state terrorism, particularly by liberal democratic states. She is currently working on a project, funded by the ESRC, which analyses the Globalization of Extraordinary Rendition and Secret Detention. She is the author of State Terrorism and Neoliberalism: The North in the South (Routledge, 2009), and has published articles in a number of leading journals. She acted as academic consultant to investigative journalist John Pilger for his documentary War on Democracy, screened in UK cinemas and on ITV1 during 2007. Academic profile page: http://www.kent.ac.uk/politics/about-us/staff/members/blakeley.html.
Stefan Borg is a PhD candidate in the School of Politics and Global Studies at Arizona State University. His dissertation is entitled The Desire for Europe: European Integration and the Question of State Violence. He is (together with Leonardo E. Figueroa Helland) the author of ‘The Lure of State Failure: A Critique of State-Failure Discourse in World Politics’ forthcoming in Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies.
Anthony Burke is an Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, UNSW, Canberra, Australia. He is the author of the books Beyond Security, Ethics and Violence: War against the Other (Routledge. 2007) and Fear of Security: Australia’s Invasion Anxiety (Cambridge, 2008), and co-editor of Critical Security in the Asia-Pacific (Manchester UP, 2007) and An Introduction to International Relations (Cambridge, 2008, 2012). Personal blog: http://worldthoughtworldpolitics.wordpress.com/.
Charli Carpenter is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at University of Massachusetts-Amherst. She specializes in human security, human rights and humanitarian affairs, and has a particular interest in the gap between intentions and outcomes among advocates of human security. She has published three books and numerous journal articles and has served as a consultant for the United Nations. Dr Carpenter’s current research focuses on global agenda-setting, investigating why certain issues but not others end up on the human security agenda. Academic profile page: http://people.umass.edu/charli/.
Chris Farrands is a Principal Lecturer in International Relations at Nottingham Trent University. He was a graduate student at Aberystwyth and at the London School of Economics, and has taught at a number of UK universities as well as having held posts as a visiting Professor at several US and French universities. He works on International Political Economy, and the theory and philosophy of International Relations. He has authored and edited a wide range of books and articles on these issues. He has, most recently, published a book co-edited with Cerwyn Moore, International Relations Theory and Philosophy: Interpretive Dialogues (Routledge, 2010) and co-edited (with Lloyd Pettiford, Imad el-Anis and Roy Smith) The New A–Z of International Relations Theory (I.B.Tauris). He is currently working on ethical debates and energy security issues in IR. Academic profile page: http://www.ntu.ac.uk/apps/Profiles/65613-1-2/Dr_Chris_Farrands.aspx.
Emma Foster is a Lecturer in the Department of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK. Her research interests include gender and sexuality, international and sustainable development and the work of Michel Foucault. Emma is currently researching issues of gender and sexuality broadly in relation to (queering) Sustainable Development. Emma has published articles in British Politics (2008), Globalizations (2011), Political Studies Review (2011) and the BJPIR (forthcoming). Academic profile page: http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/government-society/staff/profiles.aspx?ReferenceId=4472.
Marc Froese is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the International Studies Program at Canadian University College in Lacombe, Alberta. His research interests include the evolution of trade policy in the USA, the links between trade and national development strategies, the domestic politics of trade liberalization in Canada, the USA and Mexico, and the evolution of international economic law as it relates to the development of the global trading system. He is the author of Canada at the WTO: Trade Litigation and the Future of Public Policy (University of Toronto Press, 2010) and a number of journal articles published in Canada, Europe, and Asia. Personal website, Public Policy, Global Politics and International Economic Law: https://sites.google.com/site/marcfroese/.
Penny Griffin is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of New South Wales (Australia). Her research explores the creation and reproduction of human identity, particularly forms of and assumptions about gendered identity, in the global political economy and includes publications with Palgrave Macmillan (Gendering the World Bank: Neoliberalism and the Gendered Foundations of Global Governance) and in the journals New Political Economy, Review of International Political Economy, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Australian Journal of International Affairs, Globalizations and Men and Masculinities. Academic profile page: http://ssis.arts.unsw.edu.au/staff/pennygriffin-1083.html.
Eric Hartmann is an independent consultant supporting nonprofit and higher education institutions’ efforts in collaborative community development. He has advanced university community engagement in more than a dozen communities around the world, supporting water harvesting and women’s rights in Tanzania, tutoring and cultural sharing in the Navajo Nation, and increasing educational opportunities in Bolivia. His research and writing focuses on educational strategies that recognize human dignity across borders and engage students as community members and continuous learners. Currently teaching at Temple and Drexel Universities in Philadelphia, he is completing Building a Better World: The Pedagogy and Practice of Global Service-Learning (Stylus).
Oz Hassan is an Assistant Professor in US National Security at the University of Warwick. His main research area is on US and EU policy, with a particular focus on democracy promotion in the Middle East and North Africa. His expertise in computer-assisted qualitative data analysis software (CAQDAS) has involved him in teaching it internationally at institutions such as the United Nations University in Bruges, and also on multiple projects for the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) and intelligence community. He is the creator of the Freedom Agenda Collection and the Warwick Wikileaks Forum, which combine his research interests in security with CAQDAS techniques. Academic profile page: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/pais/people/hassan/. Twitter: @ozhassan.
Jeff Horowitz is an Honours student at the University of Florida, studying political science and economics. Jeff’s areas of study focus on trade policy, particularly economic sanctions and their role in US foreign policy, as well as ontological security as it pertains to security policies across nations. Jeff recently finished his undergraduate research thesis, Economic Sanctions and States’ Sense of Self: A Game Theoretic Model, and is currently revising it for publication later this year.
Natalie Florea Hudson is an Assistant Professor in Political Science at the University of Dayton specializing in human security, human rights and women’s activism. Her book Gender, Human Security and the UN: Security Language as a Political Framework for Women (Routledge, 2009) and numerous journal articles evidence her ongoing concern and research on women’s advocacy strategies and discourse in international security circles. Academic profile page: http://www.udayton.edu/directory/artssciences/politicalscience/hudson_natalie.php.
Lee Jarvis is a Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Swansea University. He is author of Times of Terror: Discourse, Temporality and the War on Terror (Palgrave, 2009) and co-author with Richard Jackson, Marie Breen Smyth, and Jeroen Gunning of Terrorism: A Critical Introduction (Palgrave, 2011). His work on security and terrorism has been published in a number of journals including Security Dialogue, Contemporary Politics, Critical Studies on Terrorism and Journal of American Studies. His most recent project is the ESRC-funded Anti-Terrorism, Citizenship and Security in the UK, with Dr Michael Lister. Academic profile page: http://www.swansea.ac.uk/staff/academic/artshumanities/pcs/jarvisl/. Personal website: http://www.leejarvis.com/.
Alex Kreidenweis is an anti-human-trafficking activist and a graduate student completing the MPA program at the University of Dayton, after which he intends to pursue a PhD in security studies.
Cerwyn Moore is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations in POLSIS at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of Contemporary Violence: Postmodern War in Kosovo and Chechnya (MUP, 2010) and co-editor, with Chris Farrands, of International Relations Theory and Philosophy: Interpretive Dialogues (Routledge, 2010). His research focuses on post-Soviet security, and he has a particular interest in terrorism and insurgency related to the North Caucasus and Central Asia. He also works on interpretive approaches to International Relations. He has published widely on these two areas of interest in Alternatives, Global Society, Europe–Asia Studies, International Affairs, The British Journal of Politics and International Studies, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, and The Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics. Academic profile page: http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/governmentsociety/staff/profiles.aspx?ReferenceId=4498.
João Nunes is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Warwick. His research interests include critical security studies, global health politics and food security. He holds a PhD from Aberystwyth University and was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Gothenburg Centre for Globalization and Development. He is the author of Security, Emancipation and the Politics of Health: A New Theoretical Perspective (Routledge, forthcoming 2013) and one of the editors of the volume Critical Theory in International Relations and Security Studies: Interviews and Reflections (Routledge, 2011). Academic profile page: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/pais/people/nunes/.
Jonna Nyman is an ESRC-funded doctoral researcher in the Department of Political Science and International Studies (POLSIS) at the University of Birmingham, researching securitization of energy and energy security discourses in US–China relations. She has also spent some time as a visiting scholar at Renmin University, China. She is interested in critical security studies more broadly, and in particular critical theoretical approaches to security and critical energy security. Academic profile pages: http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/government-society/students/doctoral-researchers/profiles/nymanjonna.aspx and http://bham.academia.edu/JonnaNyman.
Laura J. Shepherd is Associate Professor in International Relations at the University of New South Wales, Australia. Her research focuses on gender politics, including feminist theory and feminist International Relations theory, as well as security in theory and policy discourse and the politics of representation. She has published widely in scholarly journals including International Studies Quarterly, International Feminist Journal of Politics, Journal of Gender Studies, and Review of International Studies. She is author of Gender, Violence and Security: Discourse as Practice (Zed, 2008) and editor of Gender Matters in Global Politics: A Feminist Introduction to International Relations (Routledge, 2010). Academic profile page: https://research.unsw.edu.au/people/dr-laura-shepherd.
Anca Simionca is a Doctoral Candidate at the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. Her main areas of research and interest are the sociology of work, the sociology of professions, and economic sociology and anthropology. She is also interested in exploring the critical potential of formal methods such as Social Network Analysis and Sequence Analysis.
Laura Sjoberg is faculty in the Political Science Department at the University of Florida. Her research focuses on gender and security, particularly feminist security theorizing and work on women’s violence in global politics. She is the author of Gender, Justice, and the Wars in Iraq (Lexington, 2006), Mothers, Monsters, Whores: Women’s Violence in Global Politics with Caron Gentry (Zed, 2008), and Gendering Global Conflict: Towards a Feminist Theory of War (Columbia, forthcoming), and editor of five books, including, most recently (with Caron Gentry) Women, Gender, and Terrorism (UGA Press, 2012). She currently serves as co-Editor of the International Feminist Journal of Politics. Her work has been published in dozens of political science and gender studies journals. CV: http://www.laurasjoberg.com/cv.htm.
Raluca Soreanu is a Research Associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. She received her PhD in International Relations from University College London in 2011. Her research interests lie in sociology of emotions, sociology of creativity, and critical theories in International Relations. Her post-doctoral agenda is to theorise synchronicity from an interactionist perspective, while looking at the relationship between social suffering, creativity, and collective process, in the case of new social movements in Europe and Latin America. She has published articles in International Political Sociology, Millennium, and Studia Sociologia.
Cai Wilkinson is Lecturer in International Relations at Deakin University, Australia. Cai’s research interests focus on fieldwork-based securitisation studies and the localisation of norms and resistance. Empirically, Cai’s work focuses primarily on the former Soviet Union, particularly Krygyzstan and Russia. Cai has published in Security Dialogue and contributed to edited collections on fieldwork and securitisation theory.
Elizabeth Shannon Wheatley is a Lecturer in the School of Politics and Global Studies at Arizona State University, where her research focuses on human rights, dignity, and everyday cosmopolitical practices along the US–Mexico border. With Roxanne L. Doty she is currently researching the profound effects of the privatization of border security. She teaches a variety of courses that range from postcolonialism to the politics of humor. Academic profile page: https://webapp4.asu.edu/directory/person/696097.