Personal statement

I am a feminist scholar of International Relations (IR) and politics, with two overlapping research interests. The first is in feminism and social movement politics, with my books including Making Feminist Sense of the Global Justice Movement (2010) and Feminism and Protest Camps (2023). My second interest is in global nuclear politics and particularly feminist antinuclear critiques. Initially working to extend Western Cold War feminist antinuclear arguments to post-Cold War developments, and to reinterrogate the politics of feminist antinuclear activism and of peace camps in the UK, in recent years I have been developing a research program integrating feminist and post colonial critiques of the global nuclear order. To that end, I co-founded the international, interdisciplinary FemNukes research network in 2020, which produced a special section of International Affairs. I am currently working on projects on transnational antinuclear solidarities and on the material, everyday politics of military/nuclear installations.

In the Department of Government and Public Policy, I teach Honours and Masters-level classes on Feminism and Politics, Feminism and International Relations, and Global Nuclear Politics, and I also contribute to the Masters in Applied Gender Studies. I am Undergraduate Director of GPP and co-Director of Teaching.