Anne Sisson Runyan

Biography

Anne Sisson Runyan, Professor of Political Science and a faculty affiliate of Women&39;s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Cincinnati (UC), holds a PhD in International Relations from The American University, Washington, DC. She formerly headed the Department of Women&39;s Studies and also served as the Interim Faculty Chair and Director of the Charles Phelps Taft Research Center at UC. She previously founded and directed women’s studies programs at the State University of New York at Potsdam and at Wright State University, where she also held appointments in political science and chaired the Department of Politics at SUNY Potsdam. She has taught in Canada and Europe, including serving as a Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in North American Integration at York University in Toronto and a visiting scholar and fellow at the University of Amsterdam, and studied and guest lectured in many parts of the US and the world, including most recently Mexico and Egypt..A pioneer in the field of feminist international relations and a recipient of the Eminent Scholar Award from the Feminist Theory and Gender Studies Section of the International Studies Association, her books include Global Gender Issues (four editions, fifth in progress under the title Global Gender Politics), Gender and Global Restructuring (two editions), and Feminist (Im)Mobilities in Fortress(ing) North America. She has published widely in journals and volumes on many aspects of feminist world politics,and is currently developing a book on feminist critiques of nuclear colonialism. She serves on a range of editorial boards and is an associate editor of and book review link editor for the International Feminist Journal of Politics for which she organized and hosted its fifth annual conference culminating in a special edition she is guest-editing, In addition to her experience heading five academic departments and programs and a major endowed research center which funds faculty and student research and scholarly events in thirteen liberal arts departments, she has been a leader in several professional organizations, including the International Studies Association, the National Women&39;s Studies Association,and the American Association of University Professors and has directed or co-directed several externally- and internally-funded collaborative research, international exchange, curricular, conference, and speaker projects, currently co-directing a gender equity study for the City of Cincinnati. She has also chaired and/or served on countless campus governance bodies. For her achievements as a feminist researcher, leader, administrator, organizer, and fundraiser, she has received numerous university, college, and department awards for outstanding scholarship and service. She has taught a range of graduate and undergraduate courses particularly in the areas of feminist global political economy and security studies, feminist political and international relations theory, and transnational feminism at multiple institutions as well as chaired and/or served on many MA and PhD committees and was a recipient of the Society of Women in International Political Economy Mentor Award.

Research Interest

Dr. Anne Sisson Runyan specializes in theorizing and analyzing feminist world politics, gender and global political economy, and transnational feminism. Her most recent books include Global Gender Issues in the New Millennium, 4th edition (Westview Press 2014; 5th edition in progress), Feminist (Im)Mobilities in Fortress(ing) North America: Rights, Citizenships, and Identities in Transnational Perspective (Ashgate 2013), and Gender and Global Restructuring: Sighting, Sites and Resistances (Routledge 2011) and is working on a monograph tentatively entitled?Contesting Disposability: Transnational, Decolonial, and Feminist Resistances to Burying Nuclear Waste in Canada. She is particularly interested in how the interlocking power relations of gender, race, class, sexuality, and nationality structure international relations and how (gendered, racialized, and sexualized) international relations structure transnational feminist politics.