Laura Sjoberg

Laura Sjoberg adalah ilmuwan hubungan internasional dan keamanan internasional feminis. Karya-karyanya membahas interpretasi gender dalam teori perang sah, studi keamanan feminis, dan kekerasan terhadap wanita dalam politik global.

Ia dan Caron Gentry merupakan penulis Mothers, Monsters, Whores: Women's Violence in Global Politics (Zed Books 2007) dan Gender, Justice, and the Wars in Iraq (Lexington Books 2006). Ia juga merupakan penyunting Gender and International Security: Feminist Perspective (Routledge 2010), Rethinking the 21st Century: New Problems, Old Solutions (Zed Books 2009, bersama Amy Eckert), Feminist International Relations: Conversations about the Past, Present, and Future (Routledge 2011, bersama J. Ann Tickner), Gender, War, and Militarism: Feminist Perspectives (Praeger Security International, bersama Sandra Via), dan Women, Gender, and Terrorism (University of Georgia Press 2012, bersama Caron Gentry).

Sjoberg adalah dosen pembantu ilmu politik dan studi wanita di Universitas Florida. Ia pernah bekerja sebagai pengajar dan peneliti di Kennedy School of Government di Universitas Harvard, Universitas Duke, Boston College, Universitas Negeri dan Institut Politeknik Virginia, Universitas Brandeis, dan Merrimack College. Ia mendapatkan gelar Ph.D. di bidang hubungan internasional dan studi gender dari Universitas California Selatan dan gelar hukum dari Boston College.

Sjoberg saat ini merupakan penyunting International Feminist Journal of Politics. Ia menjabat sebagai Ketua International Studies Association Committee on the Status of Women. Ia pernah menyampaikan presentasi di University of Florida Law School, Universitas Harvard, Universitas Lancaster, Universitas Negeri Virginia, Universitas Virginia, Universitas Hollins, Universitas Pennsylvania, Universitas Tufts, Institut Teknologi Massachusetts, Universitas Michigan, Universitas Minnesota, Universitas Wisconsin, Universitas California Selatan, dan Universitas Duke, serta pertemuan International Studies Association, American Political Science Association, dan National Women's Studies Association.

Tulisan-tulisannya diterbitkan di International Studies Quarterly, International Feminist Journal of Politics, Security Studies, International Studies Perspectives, International Relations, Politics and Gender, International Studies Review, Feminist Review, International Politics, dan jurnal ilmiah dan volume suntingan lainnya. Ia merupakan penyunting seri buku Gender and Political Violence yang diterbitkan oleh New York University Press dan Gender and International Relations (bersama J. Ann Tickner) yang diterbitkan oleh Oxford University Press.

• Gender
• Teori perang sah
• Ilmu politik
• Keamanan internasional
• Teori kritis (hubungan internasional)

• Sjoberg, Laura. 2006. Gender, Justice, and the Wars in Iraq. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
• Sjoberg, Laura. 2006. The Gendered Realities of the Immunity Principle: Why Gender Analysis Needs Feminism. International Studies Quarterly 50(4):889-910.
• Sjoberg, Laura. 2007. Agency, Militarized Femininity, and Enemy Others. International Feminist Journal of Politics 9(1):82-101.
• Sjoberg, Laura. 2007. Gender and Personal Pedagogy. International Studies Perspectives 8(3):336-339.
• Sjoberg, Laura and Caron Gentry. 2007. Mothers, Monsters, Whores: Women's Violence in Global Politics. London: Zed Books.
• Sjoberg, Laura. 2008. Why Just War Needs Feminism Now More Than Ever. International Politics 45(1): 1-18.
• Sjoberg, Laura and Caron Gentry. 2008. Reduced to Bad Sex: Narratives of Violent Women from the Bible to the War on Terror. International Relations 22(1): 5-23.
• Sjoberg, Laura and Caron Gentry. 2009. “Profiling Terror: Gendering the Strategic Logic of Suicide Terror and other Narratives.” Austrian Journal of Political Science, 2008/2: 181-196.
• Sjoberg, Laura. 2008. Scaling IR Theory: Geography's Contribution to Where IR Takes Place. International Studies Review 10(3): 471-499.
• Sjoberg, Laura. 2009. Feminist Interrogations of Terrorism/Terrorism Studies. International Relations 23(1).
• Sjoberg, Laura. 2009. Introduction to Security Studies: Feminist Contributions. Security Studies 18(2): 183-213.
• Sjoberg, Laura. 2010. Women Fighters and the ‘Beautiful Soul’ Narrative. International Review of the Red Cross, 92(877) (March 2010): 53-68.
• Sjoberg, Laura and Amy Eckert, eds. 2009. Rethinking the 21st Century: New Problems, Old Solutions. London: Zed Books.
• Sjoberg, Laura, ed. 2010. Gender and International Security: Feminist Perspectives. New York: Routledge.
• Sjoberg, Laura and Sandra Via, eds. 2010. Gender, War, and Militarism: Feminist Perspectives. New York: Praeger Security International.
• Sjoberg, Laura. 2011. Gender, the State, and War Redux: Feminist International Relations Across the ‘Levels of Analysis’. International Relations, March 2011, 25(1): 108-134.
• Sjoberg, Laura and J. Ann Tickner, eds. 2011. Feminist International Relations: Conversations about the Past, Present, and Future. New York: Routledge.
• Sjoberg, Laura and Caron Gentry, eds. 2011. Women, Gender, and Terrorism. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press.
• Sjoberg, Laura and Jessica Peet. 2011. A(nother) Dark Side of the Protection Racket: Targeting Women in Wars. International Feminist Journal of Politics 13(2) (July 2011):163-82.
• Sjoberg, Laura. 2011. Emotion, Risk, and Feminist International Relations Research. International Studies Review, 13(4) (December 2011): 699-703.
• Sjoberg, Laura. 2011. Looking Forward: Conceptualizing Feminist Security Studies,” Politics and Gender 7(4) (December 2011): 600-4.
• Sjoberg, Laura. 2012. Gender Hierarchy, International Structure, and the Causes of War. International Theory 4(1) (2012): 1-38.
• Sjoberg, Laura and Laura Shepherd. Trans-Bodies in/of Wars: Cis-privilege and Contemporary Security Strategies. Feminist Review, 101 (July 2012):5-23.

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