VIRTUAL: “Being An LGBTQ IR Academic”
Join us on Monday, May 2nd, 12:00-1:00 pm EDT for our first talk in the “Outing IR” speaker series hosted by the Mortara Center for International Studies & the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver.
“Being an LGBTQ IR Academic”
About the speakers:
Desh Girod is an associate professor in the Department of Government at Georgetown University. Dr. Girod is also an affiliate of the Conflict Resolution Program, the African Studies Program, and the Center for Latin American Studies. Dr. Girod specializes in foreign policy, white supremacy, and conflict resolution. Born and raised in Puerto Rico, Dr. Girod grew up thinking about how powerful countries influence their less powerful counterparts. Dr. Girod has deftly researched these dynamics for nearly 20 years, publishing in top-ranked journals, such as the American Journal of Political Science and International Organization. Dr. Girod’s first book, Explaining Post-Conflict Reconstruction, was published by Oxford University Press. In 2020, Dr. Girod was named a Latinx Foreign Policy Expert by the Diversity in National Security Network and an LGBTQIA+ Foreign Policy and National Security Leader by Out in National Security. Dr. Girod’s research has received support from the Political Instability Task Force, the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, Georgetown University’s College of Arts and Sciences and Office of the Provost, and Stanford University’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law.
Miles Kahler is a Distinguished Professor at the School of International Service, American
University and Senior Fellow for Global Governance at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, D. C. Previously, he was Rohr Professor of Pacific International Relations and
Distinguished Professor of Political Science in the School of Global Policy and Strategy and the Political Science Department, University of California, San Diego. He is a member of the editorial board of Global Summitry, Senior Advisor on the editorial board of International Organization, and associate editor in the Cambridge Elements Series in International Relations. He has published widely in the fields of international politics and
international political economy, including articles and books on global governance,
international financial institutions, and Asia-Pacific regionalism. His current research projects
include the development of institutions of complex global governance and the changing role of emerging economies in world politics and global governance.
Anna Meier (she/her/hers) is Assistant Professor of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham. She uses ethnographic approaches and archival documents to examine how security institutions respond to white supremacist violence in Germany and the United States. Her research and commentary have been published in International Studies Quarterly, Critical Studies on Terrorism, Lawfare, Political Violence at a Glance, and The Washington Post, among other outlets. Anna also serves on the ISA–Northeast governing council and is an active member of the University of Nottingham branch of the University and College Union (UCU).
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Naazneen H. Barma is Director of the Doug and Mary Scrivner Institute of Public Policy, Scrivner Chair of Public Policy, and Associate Professor at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. She is a political scientist whose work spans topics including peacebuilding, foreign aid, the political economy of development, and global governance, with a regional focus on Southeast Asia and the Pacific. She is currently co-authoring a book that develops a principled and pragmatic roadmap for modern global liberalism. Her research has been supported by the United States Institute of Peace, the Minerva Research Initiative, and the Berggruen Institute, among others. Dr. Barma is, most recently, the author of The Peacebuilding Puzzle: Political Order in Post-Conflict States and co-editor of The Political Economy Reader: Contending Perspectives and Contemporary Debates. She is one of the founders and a co-director of Bridging the Gap, an initiative devoted to enhancing the policy impact of contemporary international affairs scholarship. Abe Newman is a professor in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and Government Department at Georgetown University. He currently serves as the Director of the Mortara Center for International Studies. His research focuses on international political economy, with a special interest in global regulatory issues. He has completed a project on European global leadership in the area of data privacy and is currently working on international economic governance. His work examines the intersection of comparative political economy and international political economy, specifically how domestic institutions, through transgovernmental cooperation, shape international affairs. He is the author of Protectors of Privacy: Regulating Personal Data in the Global Economy and co-editor of How Revolutionary was the Digital Revolution: National Responses, Market Transitions, and Global Technologies. His work has appeared in a range of journals including Governance, International Organization, and the Journal of European Public Policy.
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