Rate My Professor Debbie Lisle

Professor Debbie Lisle is Professor of International Relations in the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics at Queen's University Belfast, affiliated with Politics and International Relations and the Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice. She obtained her BA in Political Science from McGill University in 1992, MA in Political Science from the University of Victoria in 1996, and PhD in International Relations from Keele University in 2000, receiving the British International Studies Association Best PhD Thesis Award. Lisle's research in critical International Relations and International Political Sociology engages with debates on failure, mobility, security, borders, and technology. She explores the role of cultural and visual artifacts like contemporary travel writing, museum exhibits, photographs, art, and war films in world politics, with a particular focus on the entanglements of war and tourism, securitization of leisure spaces post-9/11, and more-than-representational aspects of war such as drones and surveillance. Her seminal book, Holidays in the Danger Zone: Entanglements of War and Tourism (University of Minnesota Press, 2016), won the International Political Sociology Best Book Award in 2018.