Research Interests
My research interests lie more generally in the interplay of gender, religious, human rights, and security discourses in domestic, transnational, and international political contexts. I focus in particular on the ways competing discourses shape political conditions of possibility.
Articles in Refereed Journals
"Introduction to the State of Feminist Security Studies: A Conversation." With Laura Sjoberg. Politics & Gender 7, no. 4 (2011): 573-76.
"Beyond Border Security: Feminist Approaches to Human Trafficking." Security Studies 18, no. 2 (2009): 319 - 344. (link)
"The Woman in Peril and the Ruined Woman: Representations of Female Soldiers in the Iraq War." Journal of Women, Politics & Policy 29 (2008): 305-334. (link)
"Fixing the Meaning of 9/11: Hegemony, Coercion, and the Road to War in Iraq." With Ronald R. Krebs. Security Studies 16, no. 3 (2007): 409-451. (link)
Essays in Edited Volumes
"Teaching International Relations with Film and Literature: Using Non-Traditional Texts in the Classroom." With Brandon Valeriano. In Handbook of Teaching and Learning in Political Science and International Relations, edited by John Ishiyama, Will Miller, and Eszter Simon. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishers, 2015. (link)
"The Sound of Silence: Rhetorical Coercion, Democratic Acquiescence, and the Iraq War." With Ronald R. Krebs. In American Foreign Policy and the Politics of Fear: Threat Inflation since 9/11, edited by Jane K. Cramer and Trevor A. Thrall, 117-134. Oxford: Routledge, 2009. (link)
"Beyond Border Security: Feminist Approaches to Human Trafficking." In Gender and International Security, edited by Laura Sjoberg, 214-234. Oxford: Routledge, 2009.
Book Reviews
“An Introduction to Feminist Security Studies.” Review of International Security and Gender by Nicole Detraz. International Studies Quarterly 16, no. 1 (2014): 145-147.
Workshops and Presentations (selected)
National Institute of Justice Expert Working Group on Human Trafficking Research. Sponsored by the United States Department of Justice, Washington DC, 24-25 April 2014.
Presentation, “Trafficking Scholarship, World-Traveling, and Loving Perception.” Sponsored by The Center of Studies of Diversity, Equality and Integration at University West, Trollhatten, Sweden, 17 September 2013.
Working Group on Theorizing Hierarchy in Anarchy: Political, Economic and Social Perspectives. Sponsored by the International Studies Association, San Francisco CA, 1-4 April 2013.
“Ethical Challenges Posed by Alternative Spring Breaks.” Presbyterian Campus Ministry Orientation for Alternative Spring Break in Haiti, University of Delaware, 17 March 2013.
Organizer and co-chair, Working Group on Feminist Security Studies. Sponsored the
International Studies Association, New Orleans, LA, February 2010.
Organizer and participant, Roundtable on International Relations Pedagogy. Sponsored by the International Studies Association-Northeast, Baltimore, MD, October 2009.
Invited participant, Workshop on Interpretive Methods in Political Science. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation, Toronto, Canada, September 2009.
Invited participant, Panel on Human Trafficking. Sponsored by the United Nations Association of Minnesota and the University of Minnesota Institute for Global Studies, Minneapolis, MN, March 2008.
Invited participant, Workshop on Feminist Security Studies. Sponsored by the International
Studies Association, Chicago, IL, February 2007.
Invited participant and discussant, Workshop on Gender in an International Context. Sponsored by the University of Minnesota Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change, Minneapolis, MN, April 2006.
Invited participant, Workshop on Interpretive and Relational Research Methodologies.
Sponsored by the International Studies Association-Northeast, Philadelphia, PA, November
2005.
