Laura Sjoberg
Associate Professor
Ph.D, University of Southern California, 2004
J.D., Boston College, 2007
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Laura Sjoberg (BA, University of Chicago; Ph.D., University of
Southern California School of International Relations; J.D. Boston
College Law School) is Associate Professor of Political Science. Her
research interests are in the area of gender-based and feminist
approaches to the study of international relations generally, and
international security specifically. Her research has addressed gender
and just war theory, women’s violence in global politics, and feminist
interpretations of the theory and practice of security policy.
Dr. Sjoberg is author of Gender,
Justice, and the Wars in Iraq (Lexington, 2006), Mothers, Monsters, Whores:
Women’s Violence in Global Politics (with Caron Gentry,
Zed Books, 2007), and Gendering
Global Conflict: Towards a Feminist Theory of War
(Columbia University Press, forthcoming). Dr. Sjoberg is
currently homebase editor of the International Feminist
Journal of Politics, and editor of several books and journal
special issues, including: Gender
and
International Security: Feminist Perspectives (Routledge,
2009), "Security Studies: Feminsit Contributions" (a special issue of
the journal Security Studies, 2009), Rethinking the
21st Century: New Problems, Old Solutions (with Amy
Eckert, Zed Books, 2009), Gender,
War, and Militarism: Feminist Perspectives (with Sandra
Via, Praeger Security International, 2010), Women, Gender, and Terrorism
(with Caron Gentry, University of Georgia Press, 2011), Feminism and International
Relations: Conversations about the Past, Present, and Future
(with J. Ann Tickner, Routledge, 2011), the Feminist Theory and
Gender Studies Section of the International Studies Compendium. Her
work has also recently been published in International Studies Quarterly,
International Studies
Review, International
Studies Perspectives, International
Politics, International
Relations, Politics
and Gender, and International Political
Sociology, among other places.
Dr. Sjoberg has previously taught at Brandeis University, Merrimack
College, Duke University, and Virginia Tech before coming to the
University of Florida. She has held post-doctoral and faculty research
fellowships with the Women in Public Policy Program and the Belfer
Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of
Government at Harvard University. Dr. Sjoberg has been the President of
the
International Studies Association-West and the International
Studies-Association-Northeast, the Chair of the Feminist
Theory and Gender Studies Section of the International Studies
Association, and a member of the Governing Council of the International
Studies Association. She has received support for her research from the
Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, from the Institute for
Society, Culture, and the Environment at Virginia Tech, from the
International Studies Association, from the Kenan Institute for Ethics
at Duke University, and from the Center for the Study of Sexuality in
the Military at the University of California at Santa Barbara.
