Officers 2012-2013

Cai Wilkinson
SECTION CHAIR | APR 2012 - MARCH 2014
Deakin University
cai.wilkinson@deakin.edu.au

Past Officers 2011-2012

Chair: Sandy McEvoy earned her Ph.D. in Women’s Studies from Clark University and is Associate Director of the Consortium on Gender, Security and Human Rights at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Her research addresses focuses on women's participation in Protestant paramilitary organizations in Northern Ireland and she has worked extensively in the region. Her work seeks to develop gender focused strategies that incorporate perpetrators of political violence into long term conflict resolution strategies. Sandy has published some of her findings in the Journal Security Studies and is preparing a book manuscript for based on her work with women paramilitaries in Northern Ireland.
Contact: Sandra.McEvoy@umb.edu

Vice-Chair: C. Wilkinson is a Lecturer in Russian at the Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham, UK. Her PhD (University of Birmingham, 2009) was entitled "Interpreting Security: Grounding the Copenhagen School in Kyrgyzstan" and explored understandings of security in Kyrgyzstan between 2005 and 2006. Her primary research interests focus on securitization and societal security issues the post-Soviet space, and interpretive methodologies in IR and Area Studies. In addition, she has undertaken research about LGBT communities in Kyrgyzstan and new media in Central Asia. She has previously published in Security Dialogue and has contributed chapters to books on fieldwork, the localization of international agency in Central Asia, and securitization studies.
Contact: c.wilkinson@bham.ac.uk

Secretary/Treasurer: Catia C. Confortini holds a PhD in IR from the University of Southern California. Her dissertation, (“Imaginative Identification: Feminist Critical Methodology in the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, 1945-1975”) received the Peace and Justice Studies Association’s 2009 Best Dissertation Award. At the intersection of feminism, peace studies and international relations, her research focuses on women’s peace movements and their theoretical practices. Her work is published in Peace and Change, International Politics, The International Feminist Journal of Politics and several edited volumes. Starting in September 2010, she will teach for the Peace and Justice Studies Program at Wellesley College.
Contact: cconfort@wellesley.edu

Member-at-Large: Patricia J. Campbell received her B.A. from Illinois State University in Political Science and History and her Ph.D. in International Studies from the University of Denver. After receiving her Ph.D., she served as Professor of Political Science at the University of West Georgia, where she held a variety of positions including Director of Global Studies and interim Department Chair. Her most recent publication, a co-authored textbook on Global Studies (Wiley-Blackwell), was published in March of 2010. Currently, she serves as the Program Director for International Relations, Middle East, and Area Studies at American Public University.
Contact: pcampbell@apus.edu

Member-at-Large: Michael Bosia is assistant professor of comparative politics at Saint Michael’s College in Colchester, Vermont, and his work is situated in the tensions between social movements and the state.  Focusing on empowerment and claims of citizenship or accountability, Bosia studies the role of French AIDS activists globally and locally, as well as local and national reactions to the globalization of food as commodity.  He is active in the LGBT Caucus and French Politics Group at APSA and in ISA. Previously, he worked on HIV/AIDS policy in the California State Legislature and is currently a partner in a restaurant emphasizing local produce in rural Vermont.
Contact: mbosia@smcvt.edu

Member-at-Large: Jennifer Heeg (PhD, Georgetown University) is currently Visiting Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University at Qatar.  Jennifer's dissertation focused on the securitization of Gulf societies in the face of outside influence from "Western culture" and very high levels of expatriate residents.  She has also published on hegemonic masculinity in US foreign policy and popular culture, and feminist IR epistemology, methodology, and method.  Jennifer's main research interests come from the fields of critical security studies and critical political economy broadly understood.  She teaches courses in world politics and the politics of global inequality.
Contact: jch43@georgetown.edu