Jennifer Lobasz
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Biography
Jennifer Lobasz, PhD (University of Minnesota) joined the Department in 2011, with a joint appointment in Political Science, before beginning her full appointment in Women & Gender Studies in 2021. Her teaching and research interests include feminist theory and gender studies, critical international relations theories, interpretive research methodologies, trafficking in persons, and teaching with non-traditional texts.
Degrees
Ph.D., Political Science, University of Minnesota, 2012
Fields: International Relations and Political Theory, Minor in Feminist Studies
M.A., Political Science, University of Minnesota, 2007
B.A., International Studies, Philosophy, American University, 2004
Books
• Constructing Human Trafficking: Evangelicals, Feminists, and an Unexpected Alliance. Palgrave, 2019.
Journal Articles
• “Introduction to the State of Feminist Security Studies: A Conversation.” With Laura Sjoberg. Politics & Gender 7, no. 4 (2011): 573-576. DOI:10.1017/S1743923X11000365
• “Beyond Border Security: Feminist Approaches to Human Trafficking.” Security Studies 18, no. 2 (2009): 319-344. DOI: 10.1080/09636410902900020
• “The Woman in Peril and the Ruined Woman: Representations of Female Soldiers in the Iraq War.” Journal of Women, Politics & Policy 29 (2008): 305-334. DOI: 10.1080/15544770802205996
• “Fixing the Meaning of 9/11: Hegemony, Coercion, and the Road to War in Iraq.” With Ronald R. Krebs. Security Studies 16, no. 3 (2007): 409-451. DOI: 10.1080/09636410701547881
Book Chapters
• “Teaching International Relations with Film and Literature: Using Non-Traditional Texts in the Classroom.” With Brandon Valeriano. In Handbook of Teaching and Learning in Political Science and International Relations, edited by John Ishiyama, Will Miller, and Eszter Simon. Edward Elgar Publishers, 2015: 399-409.
• “Beyond Border Security: Feminist Approaches to Human Trafficking.” In Gender and International Security, edited by Laura Sjoberg, 214-234. New York: Routledge, 2010.
• “The Sound of Silence: Rhetorical Coercion, Democratic Acquiescence, and the Iraq War.” With Ronald R. Krebs. In American Foreign Policy and the Politics of Fear: Threat Inflation since 9/11, edited by Jane K. Cramer and Trevor A. Thrall, 117-134. Oxford: Routledge, 2009.
Current and Past Courses
• HONR 290 First-Year Honors Colloquium: Social/Science/Fiction
• POSC 409 Feminist International Relations
• POSC 816 Philosophy of Science and Research Design
• WOMS 200 Introduction to Sexualities & Gender Studies
• WOMS 201 Introduction to Women & Gender Studies
• WOMS/PHIL 216 Introduction to Feminist Theory
• WOMS 369 The Social Construction of Sex Trafficking
