Laura Sjoberg


Laura Sjoberg is an American feminist scholar of international relations and international security. Her work specializes in gendered interpretations of just war theory, feminist security studies, and women's violence in global politics.
She is author of Mothers, Monsters, Whores: Women's Violence in Global Politics, Gender, Justice, and the Wars in Iraq,, and Gender, War, & Conflict. She is editor of Gender and International Security: Feminist Perspectives, Rethinking the 21st Century: New Problems, Old Solutions, Feminist International Relations: Conversations about the Past, Present, and Future, Gender, War, and Militarism: Feminist Perspectives, and Women, Gender, and Terrorism.
She served as the Homebase Editor for the International Feminist Journal of Politics, from 2011 until 2017. She also held an editorial position at the International Studies Review, from 2015 until 2017, and an associate editorial position with the International Studies Review, from 2013 until 2015.

Life and career

Education

Sjoberg is an Associate Professor of Political Science and affiliate faculty in women's studies at the University of Florida. She has previously taught and researched at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, Duke University, Boston College, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Brandeis University, and Merrimack College. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree in international relations and gender studies from the University of Southern California and a law degree from Boston College.

Background

Sjoberg formerly held a position as Chair of the International Studies Association Committee on the Status of Women. She has given invited presentations at the University of Florida Law School, Harvard University, Lancaster University, Virginia State University, the University of Virginia, Hollins University, the University of Pennsylvania, Tufts University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Michigan, the University of Minnesota, the University of Wisconsin, the University of Southern California and Duke University, as well as at meetings of the International Studies Association, the American Political Science Association, and the National Women's Studies Association.
Her work has been published in International Studies Quarterly, the International Feminist Journal of Politics, Security Studies, International Studies Perspectives, International Relations, Politics and Gender, International Studies Review, Feminist Review, International Politics, International Political Sociology, and other academic journals and edited volumes. She is editor of book series at New York University Press on "Gender and Political Violence", and at Oxford University Press on "Gender and International Relations".

Books

Writing extensively on the topics she studies, Sjoberg's catalogue of authored books currently includes:
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Dr. Sjoberg also contributes to several book series, including Oxford Studies in International Relations, Perspectives on Political Violence, and Gender and Global Security.
These writings address myriad topics including, but not limited to, the technicalities of war, women in wartime roles that often hold a "masculine" connotation, and sexual violence and assault as a weapon of war.

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