Laura Sjoberg
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., USC, 2004
J.D., Boston College, 2007
Email: sjoberg@ufl.edu
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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 Assistant 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) and Mothers, Monsters, Whores: Women’s
Violence in Global Politics (with Caron Gentry, Zed Books,
2007). She is currently completing a book entitled Gendering Global Conflict: Towards a
Feminist Theory of War, which is under contract with Columbia
University Press. Dr. Sjoberg is editor of Gender and International Security:
Feminist Perspectives (Routledge, 2009), Rethinking the 21st Century: New Problems,
Old Solutions (with Amy Eckert, Zed Books, 2009), Women and Wars: Contested Histories,
Uncertain Futures (with Carol Cohn, Polity, 2010), Gender, War, and Militarism: Feminist
Perspectives (with Sandra Via, under review at the University of
Pennsylvania Press), the Feminist Theory and Gender Studies Section of
the International Studies Compendium, and the Summer 2009 special issue
of Security Studies entitled “Security Studies: Feminist
Contributions.” 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 the International Feminist Journal of Politics,
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 is the President of the
International Studies Association-West, 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.
