FTGS Nominattions, 2009-2010

Section Chair Nominee (2009-10):

Laura Sjoberg

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

sjoberg@vt.edu

Nominated by

V. Spike Peterson

Seconds:

Mary Meyer, Eckerd College, meyermk@eckerd.edu

Jane Parpart, Centre for Gender and Development Studies, University of West Indies, Trinidad, parpart@dal.ca

Brooke Ackerly, Vanderbilt, brooke.ackerly@vanderbilt.edu

Biography:

I have served as the FTGS program chair for ISA 2007 and ISA 2008, and have been elected to serve as the program chair again for ISA 2009. I have also been the FTGS webmaster for three years, and served on the editorial board for the FTGS section of the ISA Compendium project, editing eight essays and writing one. I want to be the section chair because I deeply care about FTGS, and believe that I have something to offer in that position. As President-Elect of ISA West, and 3-year program chair for our section, I've learned a lot about ISA specifically and leadership generally. I am organized, enthusiastic, and I manage my time well. For those of you who do not know, my work centers around gender issues in international security. I have written Gender, Justice, and the Wars in Iraq (Lexington 2006) and (with Caron Gentry) Mothers, Monsters, Whores: Women's Violence in Global Politics (Zed 2007). My work has also been published in International Studies Quarterly, the International Feminist Journal of Politics, and International Studies Perspectives and is forthcoming in Politics and Gender, International Studies Review, International Politics, and International Relations. I am currently editing a special issue of Security Studies on feminist contributions to the field. I would appreciate the opportunity to continue my hard work for the section.

Program/Vice Chair Nominee (2009-10):

Laura Shepherd

University of Birmingham

l.j.shepherd@bham.ac.uk

Nominated by:

Laura Sjoberg, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, sjoberg@vt.edu

Seconds:

Annick Wibben, University of San Francisco, awibbe@usfca.edu

Brooke Ackerly, Vanderbilt University, brooke.ackerly@vanderbilt.edu

Biography:

Dr. Laura Shepherd has served in 2007-2009 as a member at large for the Feminist Theory and Gender Studies Section, and is an active member of the British ISA Working Group on Gendering International Relations. She has played a key role in the organization of the year of events in celebration of 20 years of British Gender and IR. Laura developed an interest in critical and feminist theory as an undergraduate and continued to focus on the politics of gender during her first MSc degree (Sussex). Having been awarded her PhD (Bristol) in January 2007, she teaches and researches gender politics, including feminist theory and feminist International Relations theory, as well as US foreign policy, security in theory and policy discourse, International Relations theory and the politics of representation. Dr. Shepherd Her work has been published in Millennium, the International Feminist Journal of Politics, the British Journal of International Relations, and Review of International Studies. She has a forthcoming article in International Studies Quarterly, and is anticipating the release of her book: Gender, Violence, and Security (Zed Books, 2008).

Member-at-Large Nominees (2008-10): (3 positions open)

1) Kevin Dunn

Hobart and William Smith Colleges

k-d-@mekons.com

Nominated by:

Jane Parpart, Centre for Gender and Development Studies, University of West Indies, Trinidad, parpart@dal.ca

Seconds:

Marianne Marchand, Professor of International Relations at the University of the Americas, Puebla, Mexico, marianne.h.marchand@gmail.com
Laura Sjoberg, Political Science, Virginia Tech, sjoberg@vt.edu

Biography:

Kevin C. Dunn is associate professor of political science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, NY. He teaches a variety of courses on international relations: Introduction to IR, Theories of IR, American Foreign Policy, and Feminisms in IR. He did his undergraduate work at Davidson College, received a MA from Dalhousie University, and his PhD from Boston University. His monograph Imagining the Congo: The international relations of identity was published by Palgrave in 2003. He has also co-edited three books: Africa's Challenge to International Relations Theory (with Timothy M. Shaw; 2001), Identity and Global Politics: Theoretical and empirical elaborations (with Patricia Goff; 2004) and most recently African Guerrillas: Raging against the machine (with Morten Bøås; 2007). He has also published articles on Africa, international relations theory, and punk rock in numerous academic journals. His most recent work includes "Interrogating White Male Privilege in International Relations" for Jane Parpart and Marysia Zalewski's forthcoming volume Re-Thinking the 'Man' Question in International Politics.

2) Caron Gentry

Abilene Christian University

caron.gentry@pols.acu.edu

Nominated by:

Laura Sjoberg, Virginia Tech sjoberg@vt.edu

Seconds:

Lauren Wilcox, University of Minnesota, laurenbwilcox@hotmail.com

Francine D’Amico, Syracuse University, fjdamico@maxwell.syr.edu

Biography:

Caron E. Gentry is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Abilene Christian University. She participated in the Lilly Summer Fellows Program in 2005. Her work focuses on feminist theory and international security studies. Her co-authored book with Dr. Laura Sjoberg, Mothers, Monsters, Whores: Women's Violence in Global Politics, was published in 2007 with Zed Books. She has work published in Terrorism and Political Violence. She has forthcoming publications with the International Feminist Journal of Politics, International Relations, and the Austrian Political Science Journal. Caron has been a Member-at-large for FTGS for two years and is currently serving as the nominations committee chair.

3) Annick T. R. Wibben

University of San Francisco

awibben@usfca.edu.

Nominated by:

Suzanne Levi-Sanchez, San Francisco State University, levisan@pacbell.net

Seconds:

Ann Tickner, University of Southern California, tickner@usc.edu

Megan MacKenzie, University of Alberta, mhmurphy@ualberta.ca

Laura Shepherd, University of Birmingham, l.j.shepherd@bham.ac.uk

Sandy McEvoy, Clark University, smcevoy@clarku.edu

Biography:

Annick T.R. Wibben is an Assistant Professor of Politics at the University of San Franciso (USF), where she also directs the Peace and Justice Studies Program and is actively involved in the interdisciplinary International Studies Program. She received her Ph.D.in International Politics from the University of Wales in Aberystwyth, UK and 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. In addition to her appointment at USF, Annick 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 [infopeace.org] since 2001.

Annick teaches International Politics and specializes in feminist IR, (critical) security studies, and IR theory. 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.

Annick is currently working on her book on Feminist Security Studies (Routledge 2009). She has presented her work at the intersection of feminist IR and security studies at numerous conferences and has published a few articles in the area, including an often cited piece on "Feminist International Relations: Old Debates and New Directions" in the Brown Journal of World Affairs (2004). She has also co-produced a documentary, After 9/11, with James Der Derian and Udris Productions (2004). Her Narrating Experience: Raymond Aron and Feminist Scholars Revis(it)ed (1998) was published by the University of Tampere.

4) Carrie Currier

Texas Christian University

c.currier@tcu.edu

Nominated by:

Brooke Ackerly, Vanderbilt University, brooke.ackerly@vanderbilt.edu

Seconds:

Laura Shepherd, University of Birmingham, l.j.shepherd@bham.ac.uk

Laura Parisi, University of Victoria, lparisi@uvic.ca

Biography:

Carrie Liu Currier has been an invaluable volunteer for FTGS this year. She has helped with the environmental committee and chaired the poster committee. It will be great for FTGS to have her continue in this work as a member at large this year.

Carrie Liu Currier is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and the Director of Asian Studies at Texas Christian University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Arizona. Her research interests are focused on China's economic reform policies and is based on survey work that examines labor market reform and its impact on women's public and private sphere activities in Beijing, with articles in China Public Affairs Quarterly, the American Journal of Chinese Studies, and the Asian Journal of Women's Studies. In addition, she is working on articles dealing with Chinese Foreign Policy with Iran, and global sex trafficking issues in Southeast Asia.

5) Denise M. Horn

Northeastern University

d.horn@neu.edu

Nominated by:

Debra Lebowitz, Drew University, dliebowi@drew.edu

Seconds:

Carol Cohn, Boston Consortium, carol.cohn@genderandsecurity.org

Heather Turcotte, University of California, Santa Cruz, hmturcotte@juno.com

Biography:

Denise M. Horn is Assistant Professor of International Affairs at Northeastern University in Boston, MA. She served as the Associate Director of the Center for Global Security and Democracy at Rutgers University, where she was instrumental in the development of the Civic Engagement Program (CEPO) at the State University of Moldova in Chisinau, Moldova. The program has expanded to include teacher training, statistical research, and student involvement in local and international NGOs and the community. At Northeastern, Dr. Horn spearheaded the development of the Global Partnership for Activism and Cross-Cultural Training (Global PACT), a peer-to-peer training program in grassroots activism and advocacy, with local trainings in Boston and international trainings in South Africa, Brazil, Thailand, Croatia and Cambodia.

Dr. Horn’s recent research examines the effects of US foreign funding in the development of civil society in transitional states of the former Soviet Union, particularly in the areas of women's issues and women's NGOs. She has written extensively on the effects of US foreign funding upon women’s social and political participation in Moldova and Estonia. Currently, she is researching these effects in Southeast Asia. Her forthcoming book, Gentle Invasions: Geopolitics in a Transitional Era, explores the implications of democracy promotion for US geopolitical strategy and global stability.

Student Representative Nominee (2008-10): (1-2 positions open)

Suzanne Levi –Sanchez

San Francisco Sate University

levisan@pacbell.net

Nominated by:

Annick T.R. Wibben, University of San Francisco, awibben@usfca.edu

Seconds:

Laura Sjoberg, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, sjoberg@vt.edu

Caron Gentry, Abilene Christian University, caron.gentry@pols.acu.edu

Biography:

Suzanne Levi-Sanchez is a Master of Arts graduate student in International Relations at San Francisco State University with a regional focus on Iran. She has been researching the countries of Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan for the past seven years and will likely go to Afghanistan next year to research the Hazara ethnic group for the United States government. Suzanne is currently applying to PhD programs in Political Science and has won several academic awards for her scholarship. She has been published in /WIIS Words/ at Georgetown University, the San Francisco Chronicle, and has an upcoming paper in a journal at the University of Hull in England. She will present two papers at the International Studies Association conference in 2008 as well as the Midwest Political Science Association (2008). All three papers are on Iran either regarding social movement or the nuclear issue. She recently presented to papers at International Studies Association-West in September of 2007. She serves in the capacity of Bay Area Regional Coordinator for Women in International Security (WIIS-West).