Women in Conflict and Security Studies
Preliminary list of women scholars in conflict and security studies!
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@nihadaboud.bsky.social
@amirajadoon.bsky.social
@triciabacon.bsky.social
Associate Professor at American University. Former State Department CT analyst.
@rebeccabestir.bsky.social
Assoc Prof of Political Science at UMKC; armed conflict, terrorism, women combatants, women in peace processes, and veteran reintegration
@judithverweijen.bsky.social
Assistant professor at Utrecht University. Researching militarization, resource conflict & violence at the intersection of conflict studies, political ecology & geography. Focus on eastern DRC.
@judithgeology.bsky.social
Plate tectonics to earthquakes & everything in between. Currently Visiting Asst Prof @CornellEAS; prev @ EOS_SG, Caltech, Harvard. Mom (x3). Read my earthquake newsletter: earthquakeinsights.substack.com
@emmamurphy.bsky.social
Postdoctoral researcher at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Researching transitional justice, agonistic peace, gender, identity. she/her
@mariyaparodi.bsky.social
Comms for good professional (Current: Media advisor to CIVICUS & advisor to CSP. Past: Amnesty International, UNICEF, IRC, PEN America, StoryCorps). Lecturer at Schiller International University on peace & conflict. "Mama" to my 3-year-old.
@drgholmes.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Politics & International Studies @OpenUniversity and Lecturer in Politics at Imperial College London; Peacekeeping, military, UN, gender, global governance, SSR, Classical/Spanish guitar player
@aejuncos.bsky.social
Professor of European Politics at University of Bristol | #EUForeignPolicy #security #conflict #peacebuilding #diplomacy | Editor, Journal of European Integration | Vice-Chair of SGEU | RTs ≠ endorsement | views mine not employer's
@ameliefreiberg.bsky.social
Postdoc @ University of Mannheim Ph.D. @ Trinity College Dublin Former Fellow @ Civil War Paths Fellow, University of York Focus on Armed Conflict, Rebel Groups, Conflict-related Sexual Violence, Rebel Socialisation, Africa
@geraldinebustos.bsky.social
PhD Candidate @Uniessexgovt - MSc @LSEGovernment Fellow at @CivilWarPaths Ideology - Patterns of Violence - Armed Groups - Civil Wars - Colombia - Machine Learning
@icafernandez.bsky.social
Pseudoacademic, int’l devt/gov escapee. Works on what hurts: governance, peace processes, displacement, land rights, memory and contestation. Pilipinas/SEA. PhD researcher, University of Cambridge.
@atrwibben.bsky.social
Anna Lindh Professor for Gender, Peace & Security @ Swedish Defence University she/ her #FHSgps #FemWars #FemSecSt #FeministFP
@elinberg.bsky.social
PhD student in War Studies | Gender, Peace & Security at the Swedish Defense University. Previously @GVAGrad & @UU_Peace. Views my own. I like politics, peace, parmesan & Paris (she/her)
@eolivius.bsky.social
Peace and conflict scholar at Umeå University with an interest in gender politics, post-war transformations, varieties of peace, and diaspora politics. Book reviews editor @ International Feminist Journal of Politics.
@hedstrom.bsky.social
Feminist. Teaches and researches Myanmar, war and politics at the Swedish Defence University.
@priscyll.bsky.social
Feminist War Studies 📚 Assistant Prof. Swedish Defence University Working Fundación Lüvo 🐘 Member FBA Research Groups Instagram: cyppp_🌻
@drmmartind.bsky.social
Research Professor @ugent and editor @JISB. Unapologetically feminist. Anti-war. Researching gender & peacebuilding in an era of environmental catastrophe.
@jkotajoki.bsky.social
PhD candidate in Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University & visiting fellow, Geneva Graduate Institute. International interventions, non-state armed groups & civil war dynamics.
@sophie-neiman.bsky.social
Journalist covering conflict and human rights | living in Kampala | trying to keep print reporting alive | she/her
@louraisonnier.bsky.social
Ph.D Candidate @uottawa.bsky.social School of Political Studies Working on French ISIS returnees MA Sciences Po Paris • BA @mcgill.ca SSHRC Scholar • Network for Strategic Analysis Chair of Ukrainian Studies🇺🇦 🇫🇷🇨🇦🇪🇺
@cnwillis.bsky.social
Incoming TT AP at Old Dominion University; VAP at Skidmore College; PhD at University at Albany, SUNY Research: US military, East/Southeast Asia, contentious politics, economic sanctions, pedagogy, fieldwork. Website: cnwillis.com She/her 🏳️🌈#BLM
@eliseferon.bsky.social
Senior Research Fellow at the Tampere Peace Research Institute, Finland Feminist Peace Research, Diaspora Studies, Disappearance Studies, Aftermath of Wars PI of @re-embody.bsky.social Co-editor in chief of @jdsjournal.bsky.social She/Her 🌱
@okgaby.bsky.social
Political Science Lecturer | PhD from UNT Political Science | Comparative Politics & International Relations | #COYG | RTs ≠ endorsements | she/her/hers
@mkguliford.bsky.social
Philadelphia Liaison for the Kansas Board of Tourism Jayhawk Born; Quaker Educated; Jumbo Trained, Dragon Employed
@purekimminess.bsky.social
True to the Kimminess Conflict/methods/pol econ teaching and rocking research methods crsslab.com "Doom scrolling (it's back again)" "check it, wreck it, let's begin" "I'm incredible....cuz I does what I do." -Craig Mack
@marinegueguin.bsky.social
Lecturer in Security Studies and IR at Leeds Beckett Uni | PhD in Security Studies at Uni of Leeds | Research Interests: Terrorism, Counterterrorism & Decolonial CT, France, Sahel | Co-host and co-creator of Insecure: A Security Podcast
@texasinafrica.bsky.social
Political scientist, tired. Development, governance, & conflict in Africa. T1D, Texas Longhorns 🤘🏻, & other stuff. I don't share my location on social media. Thanks for not asking! (she/her)
@ajars.bsky.social
Prof at the Dep of Government, Uppsala University. Lead the Varieties of Peace research network: varietiesofpeace.com. My research focuses on powersharing, Relational Peace, and the dilemmas emerging when democracy and peace is promoted simultaneously.
@careiling.bsky.social
Assistant prof, Political Science and International Studies at Washington College. I'll tell you stories about Western Nebraska, West Africa, and how bell peppers ruin everything. carriereiling.com
@vmkitchen.bsky.social
University of Waterloo prof. I study security. www.teamkitchenresearch.ca
@sofiako.bsky.social
Working on CVE & CT at the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) Germany | focus on 🇩🇪 🇫🇷 & (returning) foreign fighters | former DGAP | King's College London alumna
@carlottasallach.bsky.social
PhDing in International Relations @weareceu.bsky.social | Alumna Conflict Studies & PIL @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social |Interested in all things gender, pol violence, (int) law & courtroom ethnography | former consultant @boell.de & @dgap.org
@editamiftari.bsky.social
Women, Peace and Security Programme Specialist at UN Women 🇺🇳🇧🇦 Security and Gender Studies, Fulbrighter, based in Sarajevo. Mainstreaming gender into life, the universe and everything. Views my own.
@malikacoexist.bsky.social
Researching online extremist communities (Islamic State, AQ, white supremacy) | @GNET_research contributor
@munira.bsky.social
Founder and CEO of @chasseur.group. Fellow at Verve Research, Visiting Fellow at ICCT Hague 2023, former nonresident Fellow at New Lines Institute of Strategy & Policy in DC. Conflict, CT, and emerging security challenges in Southeast Asia and beyond.
@nicolematejic.bsky.social
Author, PRVE Pracademic & NatSec Behavioural Economist. Radicalisation, Violent Extremism, Info Disorder, IO, AI, Cyber Crime, FICINT. Adj Lecturer @Terrorism_AU Views mine. Fan of acronyms. 🖖🐾🦻| 🦘& 🇳🇿
@ctpuzzlepieces.bsky.social
🎓Security Ph.D. Hostage AGAA📚 Extremism, VE, Terrorism #NatSec Pracademic MA#Female extremism. 📚 | Interested in iconography, lexicons, 'patriots', apocalypticism, accelerationalism🚓 BA Psychology (Forensic), www.unmaskingextremism.com
@marketao.bsky.social
Researching security and military-society interaction at @ifzo.bsky.social, Greifswald Uni | Israel/Palestine and Baltic Sea | PhD from @tcddublin.bsky.social | #FirstGen | photographer, yogi, knitter 🌐 https://marketao.github.io 📸 Jerusalem
@firuzesezgin.bsky.social
Visiting Researcher at Uppsala University, Peace and Conflict Research. | Asst. Prof. at Bahçeşehir University. | Consultant at UN Women. Conflict and peace studies, UN peacekeeping.
@lindsaypcohn.bsky.social
Political Scientist (all views own), Visiting Assoc Prof @ Columbia SIPA; civ-mil relations, military orgs/manpower, public opinion, foreign policy, militarized policing, democratic theory, intl/natsec law, pol econ
@betcy.bsky.social
global norms | IHL | civilians in war | part-time baker | Proud Keralite
@sarameger.bsky.social
Senior lecturer in International Relations, University of Melbourne. Interested in critical political economy, security and feminist theory.
@sch-ir.bsky.social
Associate Professor of International Affairs at Lewis & Clark College, Portland OR. I research & teach human rights, international law, state repression, and nonprofits during closing civic space
@aspainbradley.bsky.social
Professor of Law @ UCLA and Faculty Director of the Promise Institute for Human Rights UCLA and Europe. Author of #GlobalRacism (OUP, coming in 2025) & Human Choice in Int'l Law (CUP, 2021).
@aradami.bsky.social
NATO's role in the development of environmental law. 1st year PhD @EUI, LLM Humans Rights and Social Justice (UConn). Apostle of Latvian bread, bicycling, Interrail and DIPAs. Supposedly the only one who uses the word "interesting" wholeheartedly.
@adeeweller.bsky.social
Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at Emory University. I study how violent economic actors, like organized criminal groups and armed corporations, govern under contested authority. Colorado native. https://adee-weller.com/
@onglynette.bsky.social
http://LynetteOng.com Distinguished Prof of Chinese Politics, University of Toronto. Senior Fellow, Asia Society. Author of “Outsourcing Repression” https://shorturl.at/qtNj8. Autocracies. Repression. Violence. Protests. Development. Also Southeast Asia.
@brewerosorio.bsky.social
Political Scientist, Latin Americanist, UArizona Assistant Professor, Peace and Conflict Scholar researching reintegration and community peacebuilding in Colombia, Val's mom, rescue dog&cat mom, runner, feminist, crocheter, tanguera.
@astridcoracini.bsky.social
International law @unisalzburg.bsky.social and @univie.ac.at | into use of force, international humanitarian law, international criminal justice & protection of cultural heritage
@christianew.bsky.social
Research on international law, armed conflict, and civilian harm. Professor at Carleton U, Legal Studies. Cyclist, hiker, looking forward to sabbatical.
@llkoch.bsky.social
Book: Nuclear Decisions, available at Oxford University Press. Associate Professor of Government. IR, nonproliferation, foreign policy. https://llkoch.weebly.com/
@oonahathaway.bsky.social
Professor at Yale Law School & Professor of Political Science at Yale University; Executive Editor at Just Security; former Special Council at U.S. Department of Defense
@herazhar.bsky.social
Doctoral researcher at University of Southampton and Imperial War Museum | War & influence in digital age | Prev: York + LSE, 🗞️, CVE policy | Sandwiches, cats, duvet caves | Really just all over the place | Views mine
@nadineansorg.bsky.social
PolIR • Kent • GIGA Hamburg • WIASN • Interests: post-conflict, security, feminism, cats, bikes • Transiberica 2023 • TransAtlantic Way 2023 • TCRNo8
@maureenfubara.bsky.social
PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam, researching subnational electoral violence in Nigeria.
@aditimalik.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Political Science, College of the Holy Cross. Author of Playing with Fire: Parties & Political Violence in Kenya & India (CUP 2024). Political Violence | GBV | Africa & S. Asia Boston - Delhi - Cape Town aditimalik.net
@sophiahatz.bsky.social
Researcher at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University. Studies state repression, police misconduct, citizen perceptions, causal inference.
@kyungmekim.bsky.social
Peace and conflict researcher @Swedish Defence University | Climate security, environmental peacebuilding, and transboundary water | SIPRI | PhD on civil resistance against dams in Myanmar |🇸🇪🇰🇷😺👧
@mironovavera.bsky.social
Author of “From Freedom Fighters to Jihadists. Human Resources of Non State Armed Groups”(OUP). Affiliations @Harvard @MiddleEastInst and @ForeignPolicy.
@marietheresemeye.bsky.social
Doctoral Researcher at the Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences at the University of Mannheim; researching political violence in democracies; she/her
@husneakgol.bsky.social
PhD candidate @UU_Peace women’s wartime mobilisation, post-war patriarchal backlash MA @uniessexgovt formerly @UNHCRTurkiye
@langlotzsarah.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Development Economics at UGoettingen. Affiliated with HiCN, NEPS, CeMig, and HIGH. Co-organizing @3dseminar.bsky.social. More: https://sites.google.com/view/sarah-langlotz
@lisrosvold.bsky.social
Associate professor in political science @NTNU. Conflict dynamics, disasters, aid, climate mitigation and adaptation.
@golafs.bsky.social
Postdoc @ SCGG, SU & Researcher @ DPCR, UU. Researching intersections between elections, democratization, autocratization, global governance, and boycotts.
@corinnebara.bsky.social
PhD, Senior Researcher at ETH Zürich, passionate about peace and conflict research and data science.
@allthingsct.bsky.social
@allthingsct on Twitter | OSINT, counterterrorism, financial crime, cyber enabled crime, security | Author, http://goo.gl/9tTfsn | Views = personal | Likes for collation only |
@allisonwkoh.bsky.social
researcher, R nerd, city rat 🏳️🌈 (she/they) research fellow in NLProc @ university of birmingham • 💭📝 geopolitics of emerging tech; genAI for human rights monitoring https://allisonkoh.github.io
@hathaonguyen.bsky.social
Last name Hà. IR PhD student at Vanderbilt, studying civil war dynamics using formal theory and network analysis, with a side of emotion in foreign policy. I have too many hobbies. #Rstats
@igallino.bsky.social
International Humanitarian Law | Protection of Civilians | Ethics in War. Advisor@ICRC. PhD Candidate @University of Helsinki, researching how International Humanitarian law is currently being (mis)used.
@mariaamjad.bsky.social
PhD candidate @University of Genoa | Formerly: CICAM @radboudpol.bsky.social; CivilWarPaths; Unibo; LUMS | peace processes; rebel diplomacy; civil war; #Afghanistan; #Pakistan
@tmitts.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
@idarudolfsen.bsky.social
Senior researcher at Peace Research Institute Oslo, desk editor at Journal of Peace Research. Mass mobilization, state repression, societal organizations, food insecurity, causal inference.
@sedefaslitopal.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at Ripon College, studying conflict processes, rebel group behavior and the Middle East and African Politics.
@christinaboyes.bsky.social
Poli sci ass. prof at CIDE in #Mexico City. All things #conflict #resources #politicalviolence and #climatechange. #Hiker, mom, unabashedly obsessed with my kids. Avid #stressbaker.
@winniexia.bsky.social
Postdoc research fellow at Aarhus; PhD from Essex; protest violence; computational social science 🔬 https://www.winniexia.com
@mirandasimon.bsky.social
Associate professor at University of Essex Department of Government. Study migration, public attitudes toward immigration. www.mirandasimon.net
@cwiehler.bsky.social
Specialized in mediation support for ceasefires & process design | Working at Berghof Foundation and the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue | Work experience in South Asia, Latin America, and West Africa | Dr. sc. @ETH Zurich | She/her
@fkhalifa.bsky.social
PhD Candidate at the University of Essex | researching violence against peacekeepers, rebel strategies, and post-conflict outcomes in #Africa | formerly Peacebuilding Lead at CCCPA, PSU at IOM South Sudan
@tvincent.bsky.social
PhD Candidate at the University of Maryland. Co-organizer for the Violence, Instability and Peace Workshop. Previously: Cornell Gender and the Security Sector Lab Predoc Fellow.
@roxanagutz.bsky.social
Prof of Policy & Quantitative Methods at Queen Mary University of London. PhD Economics, University of Cambridge. Political economy, conflict, migration, gender violence, applied economics.
@yaseminsivri.bsky.social
PhD Candidate at the University of Amsterdam | Researching propaganda, disinformation, and legitimacy in competitive autocracies
@noyonikadas.bsky.social
PhD candidate at University of Amsterdam | Research on election violence, political parties and territorial control
@belengonzalez.bsky.social
Head of Research for International Security, Peace, and Conflict at the Department of Political Science, University of Zurich | https://belengonzalezsimon.weebly.com Guest Professor, University of Konstanz | DFG Project: The Dynamics of Mass Protest Event
@swebera.bsky.social
Postdoc at Immigration Policy Lab Stanford | PhD in Political Science from UCL | Research on migration, displacement, conflict dynamics sigridweber.com
@reginesonja.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Researcher at Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF). Studying civil wars, non-state armed groups and wartime institutions. Interested in Middle Eastern Politics and Societies. https://www.regineschwab.org/
@hannapfeifer.bsky.social
Head of Research Area "Societal Peace and Internal Security" at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg @ifshhamburg.bsky.social
@cbrandt.bsky.social
Berkeley Ph.D., Sylff Fellow at Uppsala University Scholar of civil conflict peace agreements and international interventions. Lost southerner. She/her.
@janakrause.bsky.social
Professor, Political Science @UniOslo; Director MA PECOS; ERC ResilienceBuilding; Author of Resilient Communities
@corinnajentzsch.com
Political Violence, Civil War, African Politics, Security Studies, Fieldwork Ethics, Gender | Political Scientist @Leiden University | Author of "Violent Resistance: Militia Formation and Civil War in Mozambique" (https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108936026)
@hyyppati.bsky.social
Doctoral researcher Univ Helsinki, civil wars, civilian agency, rebel governance, political violence, Syria. Member of board of NSMES and editorial board of Babylon.
@cloyle.bsky.social
Associate Prof, Penn State, Political Science, Global Fellow, PRIO, Studies Armed Conflict, Human Rights, Transitional Justice
@annedeglow.bsky.social
Associate Senior Lecturer/Assistant Professor, Department of Peace and Conflict Research (Uppsala University). Organized violence | Policing and crime | Elections | Democracy.
@jzulver.bsky.social
📍 Wallenberg Academy Fellow, Swedish Defence University 📍 Senior Researcher at Ladysmith 📕 Author: High-Risk Feminism in Colombia: Eng http://bit.ly/36wtfGz Esp http://bit.ly/3BGTNlQ
@burcusavun.bsky.social
Political scientist studying political violence and forced migration at Pitt. Feline and canine enthusiast
@katiezimmerman.bsky.social
Al Qaeda, Islamic State, Middle East, Africa. A lot on Yemen, US counterterrorism strategy, & Salafi-jihadi groups. katherinezimmerman.substack.com
@gabriellalevy2.bsky.social
AP @ U of Washington | former postdoc @ Brown U | Ph.D. from Duke U | civil wars, political violence, political psychology | gabriellalevy.net
@marybethaltier.bsky.social
New York University's Center for Global Affairs professor; researching & teaching transnational security, political violence, political behavior, nationalism, ethnic conflict, foreign policy. https://www.linkedin.com/in/mary-beth-altier-5795459/