Keera Allendorf is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan. She received her doctorate in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and was a Fulbright Fellow in India. Dr. Allendorf has also worked at the International Center for Research on Women and the Social Development Unit in South Asia at the World Bank. Her research focuses on the intersections of demography, gender, and family in South Asia. Much of her work has explored the determinants and consequences of women’s agency. Currently, she is focusing on family relations, household structure, and family formation, including examining how these structures are changing over time and their links to well-being.
Rae Lesser Blumberg is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia. She received her Ph.D. from Northwestern in 1970 and joined the Sociology Department at the University of Virginia in 1998. She is also Professor Emerita of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego. Her academic work revolves around two theories. First is a general theory of gender stratification found in such works as Stratification: Socioeconomic and Sexual Inequality (Wm. C Brown, 1978); “A General Theory of Gender Stratification” (Sociological Theory 1984); and Gender, Family, and Economy: The Triple Overlap (Sage 1991). The second is an evolving theory of gender and economic development as described in such works as “Making the Case for the Gender Variable: Women and the Wealth and Well-being of Nations (U.S.A.I.D. 1989) and EnGENDERing Wealth and Well-being: Empowerment for Global Change, edited by Blumberg, Cathy Rakowski, Irene Tinker and Michael Monteon, (Westview, 1995). Largely in pursuit of her theories, she has worked in over 40 countries on every continent except Antarctica.
Lisa D. Brush is Associate Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, where she conducts research on poverty, battering, work, welfare, and the state. She teaches a variety of graduate and undergraduate courses in sociology, women’s studies, and cultural studies. She practices French horn and Iyengar yoga.
Isabel Casimiro is a feminist scholar and activist, based at the Centre of African Studies, Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo, Mozambique since 1980. She is co-founder of WLSA (Women and Law in Southern Africa Research Trust) Regional (1988) and WLSA Mozambique (1990), its first national coordinator from 1990-1995 and founder of the Department of Women and Gender Studies at the Centre of African Studies (1990). She is also a member of various feminist organizations in Mozambique including Fórum Mulher (Woman’s Forum) a network of about 80 organizations on women human’s rights. She is also co-founder of Cruzeiro do Sul – Instituto de Investigação para o Desenvolvimento José Negrão (Southern Cross – José Negrão Research Institute for Develoment, 1998). She was a member of Parliament on behalf of Frelimo Party during 1984-89, after the first multy party elections. She wrote “’Peace on Earth and War at Home,’ Feminism and Women Organizations in Mozambique” (2004); and recently “African Women’s Movements. Changing Political Landscapes,” organized by Aili Mari Tripp, with Joy Kwesiga and Alice Mungwa (2009).
Stephanie Chaban is working as a Project Manager in the Ramallah Office of the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF) Office with the Palestinian Women and Security Project. She is the co-author of the DCAF publication, “Palestinian Women and Security: Why Palestinian Women and Girls Do Not Feel Secure.” Stephanie’s research and work experience have specifically focused on Palestinian women and gender-based violence. Prior to joining DCAF, she was the Program Manager at the Palestinian Women’s Research and Documentation Center. Before moving to Ramallah, she worked in the United States as a victim advocate with civilian and military families experiencing relationship violence. Stephanie holds a M.A. in Women’s Studies.
Hae Yeon Choo is a doctoral candidate in Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research interests include migration, citizenship, race-class-gender, sociology of culture, and ethnography. Her previous works include “Practicing Intersectionality in Sociological Research” (in Sociological Theory, forthcoming 2010)(with Myra Marx Ferree) and “Gendered Modernity and Ethnicized Citizenship: North Korean Settlers in South Korea” (in Gender & Society, 2006), and she is a translator of Patricia Hill Collins’s Black Feminist Thought to Korean (2009). She was awarded the Fulbright scholarship (2004-6) and the Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Research Fellowship (2008-9). Currently, she is writing her dissertation, an ethnographic examination of citizenship in practice in the experiences of Filipina migrant women in relation to the South Korean state and civil society.
Wendy M. Christensen is a doctoral candidate in Sociology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Wendy’s interests include sociology of gender, sociology of culture, qualitative methods, social theory (classical, contemporary and feminist), war and the military, discourse analysis, internet technology, and communications. She is currently working on her dissertation, Mobilizing Military Motherhood: Negotiating Support, Activism and Politics in the U.S. War on Terrorism, which uses theories of gender, discourse, and political mobilization to analyze the experiences of mothers of members of the U.S. Armed Forces. Her publications include “Technological boundaries: Defining the Personal and the Political in Military Mothers’ Online Support Forums” (Women’s Studies Quarterly: Special Issue on Technology 2009) and “Cowboy of the World? Gender Discourse and the Iraq War Debate” with Myra Marx Ferree (Qualitative Sociology: Special Issue on Political Violence 2009). She is currently working on a paper that builds on the work of feminist sociologist Dorothy Smith to suggest a framework for studying Web 2.0 technologies that centers on how individuals’ experiences online are shaped by technological power.
Karen Engle is Cecil D. Redford Professor in Law at The University of Texas School of Law, and founding director of the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice. She is also an affiliated faculty member of Latin American Studies and of Gender and Women’s Studies, and is a Senior Fellow at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law. She teaches courses and specialized seminars in public international law, international human rights law and employment discrimination. Professor Engle writes and lectures extensively on international human rights law. Her recent works include “The Force of Shame” (in Rethinking Rape Law, forthcoming 2010)(with Annelies Lottmann), “Judging Sex in War” (Michigan Law Review, 2008), “Calling in the Troops: The Uneasy Relationship Among Human Rights, Women’s Rights and Humanitarian Intervention” (Harvard Human Rights Journal, 2007), and “Feminism and Its (Dis)contents: Criminalizing War-Time Rape in Bosnia and Herzegovina” (American Journal of International Law, 2005). Her book, The Elusive Promise of Indigenous Development: Rights, Culture, Strategy, is forthcoming by Duke University Press in 2010. Professor Engle received a Bellagio Residency Fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation (2009) and is a Fulbright Senior Specialist.
Yakin Ertürk, who holds a PhD in development sociology from Cornell University, is a professor of sociology and the head of the Gender and Women’s Studies Programme at the Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara, Turkey. She also taught at the Centre for Girls, at King Saud University in Riyadh from 1979 to 1982 and from 1979 to 1981 served as its chair. Between 1997 and 1999 she was director of the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW) for the United Nations in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. She then served as director of the UN Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW) at its headquarters in New York from 1999 to 2001. In August 2003, she was appointed special rapporteur for the United Nations Commission on Human Rights on violence against women, its causes and consequences, a post she occupied until December 2009. She was elected by the ministers of the Council of Europe to serve a four-year term in the European Committee on the Prevention of Torture (CPT). Ertürk has worked for many national and international agencies on rural development and women in development projects. Her academic areas of interest include: international human rights regimes; identity politics, conflict and violence against women; globalization and population movements; household labor use patterns; and women in development.
Christina Ewig teaches courses on gender and politics, global feminisms, comparative gender and welfare policy and Latin American politics. Her research centers on gender, race and class and social policy in Latin America. Her forthcoming book analyses the politics of neoliberal health sector reforms and their impacts on women’s lives in Peru. Her second project, entitled “Gendered Paradigms of Neoliberalism” consists of a series of articles that compare the politics of health sector reforms and their effects on gender equity in Peru, Mexico, Colombia and Chile. In addition to contributions to edited volumes, she has published articles in the Latin American Research Review, Social Politics, Feminist Studies and Social Science & Medicine. Her research has been supported by a Fulbright New Century Scholars award and a Rockefeller residential fellowship.
Myra Marx Ferree is the Martindale-Bascom Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for German and European Studies at the University of Wisconsin, where she is also a member of the Women’s Studies Program. Her recent books include Global Feminisms: Transnational Women’s Organizing, Activism, and Human Rights (co-edited with Aili Mari Tripp, NYU Press, 2006) and Shaping Abortion Discourse: Democracy and the Public Sphere in Germany and the US (with William A. Gamson, Jürgen Gerhards and Dieter Rucht, Cambridge University Press, 2002). In 2005 she was a Berlin Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin and in 2004 the Maria-Jahoda Visiting Professor at the Ruhr University Bochum. She has written numerous articles about feminist organizations and politics in the US, Germany and internationally, as well as about gender inequality in families, the inclusion of gender in sociological theory and practice, and the intersections of gender with race and class. She has been the recipient of the Jessie Bernard Award (sociology’s highest honor for work in gender), vice-president of the American Sociological Association and deputy editor of its leading journal, president of Sociologists for Women in Society and recipient of its mentoring and feminist scholarship awards. Her current work focuses on comparisons between US and German feminist movements and gender policy developments since the 1960s as well as the development of feminist identities in transnational women’s organizations.
Laura J. Heideman is a Ph.D. candidate in the Sociology department at University of Wisconsin—Madison. Her dissertation examines the peacebuilding apparatus in Croatia in the aftermath of the breakup of Yugoslavia. She finds that in Croatia, peacebuilding occurred under the guise of civil society building projects, and that this approach to peacebuilding raises important questions about accountability, responsibility, and power relationships in the aftermath of conflicts. This research was funded by a Fulbright fellowship and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. Heideman has long-term interests in post-conflict studies, development studies, and political sociology. She has done previous research on the long-term reintegration of guerrilla ex-combatants in South Africa.
Narda Henríquez is a Peruvian sociologist with a long trajectory in the areas of social change and poverty studies, and gender studies. Dr. Henríquez is a professor at the Catholic University of Peru (PUC), Peru’s leading university and one of the 500 best universities in the world according to European ranking systems (The Higher Education Chronicle of The Times, 2003). Dr. Henríquez was one of the founders of the first women’s studies program (also at her university) and has produced several books on issues of social and political change. She was a major gender consultant to the Commission on Truth and Reconciliation. Dr. Henríquez is the current president of the Peruvian Association of Sociologists.
Elizabeth Holzer is a PhD Candidate in Sociology and Charlotte W. Newcombe Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research explores political engagement during humanitarian interventions. Her dissertation focuses on the repression of social protests among Liberian refugees in the Buduburam Refugee Camp, Ghana (2006-2008).
Natalie Florea Hudson received her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Connecticut and is an Assistant Professor at the University of Dayton. She specializes in gender and international relations, the politics of human rights, international security studies, and international law and organization. Her work has appeared the following academic journals: International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Human Rights, International Journal, Simulation and Gaming, and Global Change, Peace and Security. Her book, Gender, Human Security and the UN: Security Language as a Political Framework for Women (Routledge, 2009) examines the organizational dynamics of women’s activism in the United Nations system and how women have come to embrace and been impacted by the security framework, locally and globally. Dr. Hudson has also done some consulting work related to gender mainstreaming and UN Security Council Resolution 1325 for the European Union and the United Nations.
Edith Kinney is a Doctoral Candidate in the Jurisprudence & Social Policy program at the University of California, Berkeley, and also holds a J.D. from Berkeley Law. Her research interests include law & social movements, feminist legal theory, and the politics and ethics of feminist advocacy. She spent a year in Thailand as a Fulbright Fellow researching the operation of taskforces combating human trafficking and sexual exploitation, as well as the work of advocacy networks addressing the rights of migrants, ethnic minorities, and sex workers. In addition to her dissertation project, Edith is currently working on a World Health Organization research project mapping global laws affecting sexual health and sexual rights.
Helen M. Kinsella is an assistant professor in the Political Science Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research and teaching interests include contemporary political theory, feminist theories, international law, especially international humanitarian and human rights, armed conflict, and especially gender and armed conflict. She is a graduate of University of Minnesota-Minneapolis and prior to her appointment at Wisconsin held pre and post doctoral fellowships at, respectively, Harvard University and Stanford University. Her book manuscript entitled “The image before the weapon: a critical history of the ‘combatant’ and ‘civilian’ in international law and politics” is under contract to Cornell University Press.
Chaitanya Lakkimsetti is a doctoral candidate in the department of Sociology at UW-Madison. Her dissertation research is a comparative study of contestations around state regulation of homosexuality and sex work in contemporary postcolonial India. Her research interests are broadly in transnational feminisms, postcolonial studies, and sexuality.
Susana Lastarria-Cornhiel is a sociologist who has worked on international development issues throughout her career. She contributes to the Urban and Regional Planning Department’s international development planning program and currently offers a course on international development and gender. Her current research focuses on gender and land rights, particularly the impact of land rights on women’s status, economic opportunities, and well being.vPrior to joining URPL in mid-2004, Dr. Lastarria-Cornhiel worked as senior researcher at the Land Tenure Center, the leading university-based research institution on land policy in the world. She maintains a research affiliation with the Center, and her past policy-oriented research focused on issues of property privatization, land markets, land conflicts, and gender in Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, and Eastern Europe. She is also an affiliate of the Women’s Studies Program. Dr. Lastarria-Cornhiel regularly collaborates with international development agencies such as the World Bank, USAID, Ford Foundation, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and other United Nations divisions such as Habitat and Division for the Advancement of Women. Her recent publications include: The Women of Isoso: Livelihoods, Governance and Natural Resources in the Gran Chaco, Bolivia (2008), Feminization of Agriculture: Trends and Driving Forces (2006), and Shared Tenure Options for Women: A Global Overview (2005).
Peace A. Medie is a doctoral student at the University of Pittsburgh’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA) and specializes in security and development policy. Currently, her research focuses on violence against women in post-conflict states. She plans to conduct field research over the summer on the framing of violence against women and how this affects the policy process. She is currently a research assistant at the Ford Institute of Human Security at the University of Pittsburgh and has worked on projects in the areas of transnational agenda setting and women’s business participation in the United States. Peace has received a fellowship from the American Association of University Women and two others from GSPIA. She has also been awarded a research grant from the Women’s Studies Department at the University of Pittsburgh.
Katharine H.S. Moon is Professor in the Department of Political Science at Wellesley College. Moon received her B.A. from Smith College, magna cum laude, and her Ph.D. from Princeton University, Department of Politics. Moon is the author of Sex Among Allies: Military Prostitution in U.S.-Korea Relations (Columbia University, 1997; Korean edition by Sam-in Publishing Co., 2002) and other publications on the U.S.-Korea alliance and social movements in Korea and Asia (e.g. democratization, women’s movements, migrant workers, human rights). They are available in edited volumes and academic journals such as Asian Survey and The Journal of Asian Studies and Korean publications such as Changjak gwa Bipyeong,and Dangdae Bipyeong. Currently, Moon is completing a book manuscript Protesting America, Pursuing Democracy:Korean Civil Society in Alliance Politics (forthcoming, GAIA/University of California Press). Moon received a Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship in 2002 to conduct field research in Korea on this subject and was a visiting scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Sigur Center for Asian Studies at the George Washington University in 2002-03.
Carol Mueller is Professor of Sociology and currently Interim Director of the Division of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Arizona State University. She has written extensively on the women’s movement (eg. See “Women’s Movements” in Blackwell Handbook on Social Movements with Myra Ferree and Women’s Movements of the U.S. and Western Europe with Mary Katzenstein) and social movement theory. For the last few years, her research has focused on the transnational advocacy networks that have sought to address the femicide in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
Fionnuala D. Ní Aoláin is concurrently the Dorsey & Whitney Chair in Law at the University of Minnesota Law School and a Professor of Law at the University of Ulster’s Transitional Justice Institute in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She is co-founder and Associate Director of the Institute. Professor Ní Aoláin received her LL.B. and Ph.D. in law at the Queen’s University Law Faculty in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She also holds an LL.M. degree from Columbia Law School. Professor Ní Aoláin was a Visiting Professor at the University of Minnesota Law School in 2003-04. Her teaching and research interests are in the fields of international law, human rights law, national security law, and feminist legal theory. She has published extensively in the fields of emergency powers, conflict regulation, transitional justice, and sex-based violence in times of war. Her most recent book, Law in Times of Crisis (Cambridge University Press, 2006), was awarded the American Society of International Law’s preeminent prize in 2007: the Certificate of Merit for creative scholarship. She was a representative of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia at domestic war crimes trials in Bosnia (1996-97). In 2003, she was appointed by the Secretary-General of the United Nations as Special Expert on promoting gender equality in times of conflict and peace-making.
V. Spike Peterson is a Professor in the School of Government and Public Policy at the University of Arizona, with affiliations in Gender and Women’s Studies, Institute for LGBT Studies, International Studies and Center for Latin American Studies. She is also an Associate Fellow of the Gender Institute at the London School of Economics (2008-2011). Her 2003 book, A Critical Rewriting of Global Political Economy: Reproductive, Productive and Virtual Economies, introduced an alternative analytics for examining intersections of ethnicity/race, class, gender and national hierarchies in the context of neoliberal globalization. She and Anne Sisson Runyan have recently published Global Gender Issues in the New Millennium. Peterson has held Visiting Research Scholar Fellowships at Australian National University, University of Bristol, University of Göteborg and the London School of Economics. Her current research focuses on global householding, informalization, intersectionality, and global insecurities. She regularly teaches a General Education course (Politics of Difference: Race/Ethnicity, Class, Gender and Sexualities), undergraduate courses in political science and international relations that are cross-listed with Gender and Women’s Studies, and graduate seminars on contemporary social theory and global political economy.
Taylor Price is a Ph.D. student in the department of political science at UW-Madison. She studies comparative politics, with a regional focus on southern Africa. Her research interests include the intersection of chieftaincy, tradition, and democratization; gender equality policies; and state responses to gender-based violence.
Dörte Rompel holds a M.A. in Political Science and Social Anthropology from Frankfurt University, Germany. Her major fields of study are gender, democratization and peace and conflict research. Regionally, she is specialized on West Africa. Her dissertation project deals with women’s political change and peace building in Liberia. Presently, she works as a visiting scholar at the Center for Research on Gender and Women at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Ellie Schemenauer is an assistant professor in the Department of Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. She earned her Ph.D. in International Relations from Florida International University in Miami, Florida in 2006. She teaches introductory courses in women’s studies as well as upper-division courses on women and international relations and gender in cross-cultural perspective. Her research has focused on gender, security and illicit drug trafficking in the Americas.
Gay Seidman is professor of Sociology and director of African Studies at UW-Madison. Her articles on gender and the women’s movement in Southern Africa have appeared in Signs and Feminist Studies.
Valerie Sperling is Associate Professor of Government and International Relations at Clark University. She is the author of Altered States: The Globalization of Accountability (Cambridge University Press, 2009), Organizing Women in Contemporary Russia: Engendering Transition (Cambridge University Press, 1999), and the editor of Building the Russian State (Westview, 2000). Her research on the Russian women’s movement, as well as on militarism and patriotism in Russia, has been published in Nations & Nationalism, Women & Politics, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, and numerous edited volumes. She is a Faculty Associate at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, and a founding (and continuing) member of the Editorial Board of Politics & Gender. Sperling received her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 1997. She is currently working on a study of how youth activism (both Kremlin-sponsored and opposition-oriented) is gendered in Russia. At Clark, she teaches Revolutions and Political Violence, Mass Murder and Genocide under Communism, Transitions to Democracy, Russian Politics, Introduction to Women’s Studies, Globalization and Democracy, and Political Science Fiction.
Elizabeth Stites is a Senior Researcher in Conflict and Livelihoods at the Feinstein International Center, Tufts University. Her work focuses on the effects of conflict on civilian livelihoods, and ways in which communities, households and individuals adapt or change their livelihood strategies in conflict environments and the repercussions of these changes. She is particularly interested in the shifts that occur within households and how these changes are experienced by different genders and generations. At the policy level, Ms. Stites is interested in the effects of international and national policies on community-based livelihood and coping strategies. Her work on livelihoods began with three years of research on post-apartheid land restitution in South Africa in the1990s, and she has also worked in Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Afghanistan and Bosnia. Since 2005 she has focused on Uganda, examining civilian livelihoods and protective strategies in the LRA-affected north and the inter-related livelihood and conflict issues in the pastoral northeast. She is currently co-teaching a graduate class on gender and complex emergencies at Tufts University. Ms. Stites holds a BA from Wesleyan University (CT, USA), a MA from the University of Cape Town (South Africa), a MALD from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University (MA, USA), and is currently working towards her PhD. She is based in New York.
Mangala Subramaniam is Associate Professor of Sociology at Purdue University. Her primary areas are gender, social movements including transnational women’s movements, and research methods. Her monograph, The Power of Women’s Organizing: Gender, Caste, and Class in India (2006) focuses on the women’s movement in India with specific attention to dalit women’s organizing. She is currently working on a book on social movements (local, national and transnational contexts) forthcoming through Cambridge University Press. Her ongoing research projects focus on socio-cultural scripting in dissemination of information about HIV/AIDS in India and community resistances to the privatization of water resources in the context of globalization.
Aili Mari Tripp is Professor of Political Science and Gender & Women’s Studies. She is also director of the Center for Research on Gender and Women. Her research has focused on women and politics in Africa, women’s movements in Africa, transnational feminism, African politics (with particular reference to Uganda and Tanzania), challenges of democratization as they relate to hybrid regimes, and on the informal economy in Africa. She is co-author (with Isabel Casimiro, Joy Kwesiga, and Alice Mungwa) of African Women’s Movements: Transforming Political Landscapes (2009) and author of Museveni’s Uganda: Paradoxes of Power (forthcoming), Women and Politics in Uganda (2000) and Changing the Rules: The Politics of Liberalization and the Urban Informal Economy in Tanzania (1997). She is currently working on a project on women’s rights in post-conflict countries. She is currently working on a project on women’s rights in post-conflict African countries, including Uganda, Liberia, Angola and DR Congo. Aili Tripp co-edits the journal Politics & Gender of the Women and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association (APSA). Tripp has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the Victoria Schuck award of APSA for the best book on women and politics and has served as vice president of the organization.
Shannon Drysdale Walsh is a doctoral candidate in political science at the University of Notre Dame. Her dissertation, “Engendering State Institutions: State Response to Violence Against Women in Latin America,” explains the development and variation in practices within three types of specialized institutions (policy agencies, police units, and the courts) that address violence against women in Latin America. In this dissertation, she conducts a structured, focused comparison of Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica and generates a broader explanation of strengthening institutions and state capacity in Latin America to address the needs of marginalized groups. She has conducted extensive fieldwork in Central America supported by several fellowships, including a Fulbright-Hays. One recent publication includes an article, “Engendering Social Justice: Strengthening State Responses to Violence Against Women in Central America,” which may be found at www.nd.edu/~swalsh2, along with additional information regarding her ongoing projects. Shannon Drysdale Walsh holds an M.A. from the University of Notre Dame and a B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her primary interests include comparative politics in Latin America, women and politics, institutions, comparative democratization, human rights, gender and public policy, human security, and violence against women.
Annick T.R. Wibben (University of San Francisco) received her Ph.D. in International Politics from the University of Wales in Aberystwyth, UK. She has also holds an M.Soc.Sc. in IR and European Studies from the University of Tampere in Finland and a Vordiplom in Economics from the University of Hamburg, Germany. Prof. Wibben continues to be affiliated with the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University where she has been working with the Information Technology, War and Peace Project since 2001. Prof. Wibben teaches International Politics and specializes in security studies, IR theory, and feminist IR. Before joining the USF faculty, she taught at Brown University, Bryant College, and Wellesley College. In the fall of 2003, she was a Rockefeller Humanities Fellow for Human Security with the National Council for Research on Women and the Center for the Study of Women and Society at the City University of New York Graduate Center. Prof. Wibben is currently working on her book on Feminist Security Studies. She is also presenting numerous papers in the area of feminist IR and critical security studies, including a paper on “A Continuum Approach to Security Theory” at the 2007 International Studies Association conference. During the summer of 2007 she presented a research seminar “Toward Feminist Security Theory” at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth and a paper on “The Continuing Impact of Cold War Security Narratives” at a the University of Manchester in the UK. Her Narrating Experience: Raymond Aron and Feminist Scholars Revis(it)ed was published in 1998.
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