Rate My Professor Jelke Boesten

Professor Jelke Boesten is Professor in Gender and Development in the Department of International Development within the Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy at King's College London, where she also serves as Associate Dean for Doctoral Studies. She holds an MA in History and a PhD in Gender Studies from the University of Amsterdam. Prior to joining King's, she held research positions at the University of Bradford in the Departments of International Development (2004-2006) and Peace Studies (2006-2007), and a lectureship in Politics and International Studies at the University of Leeds (2007-2013). She was awarded the Jennings Randolph Senior Fellowship at the US Institute of Peace in Washington DC (2011-2012), an Alberto Flores Galindo Visiting Professorship at the Pontifícia Universidad Católica del Perú (2021), and a Visiting Fellowship at the Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation (CEDLA) in Amsterdam.

Boesten's research focuses on violence against women in war and peace, social policy and transitional justice, and persistent intersecting inequalities, particularly in Peru. At King's, she founded and convenes the Gender Studies Network and co-convenes the Visual and Embodied Methodologies (VEM) network. Her major projects include 'Intimacies of Violence: Veterans accounts of gender and warfare and its aftermath in Peru' funded by the British Academy (2019-2022), 'VEM: Visual and Embodied Methodologies for Imaging Intersectional Gendered Violence' funded by the ESRC (2023-2025), and 'Debating, Performing & Curating Symbolic Reparations and Transformative Gender Justice in post-conflict societies' funded by the AHRC (2016-2018). Key publications comprise the books Sexual Violence during War and Peace: Gender, Power, and Post-Conflict Justice in Peru (2014), Intersecting Inequalities: Women and Social Policy in Peru, 1990-2000 (2010), and Poor Women in Peru: Reproducers of Poverty and Poverty Relievers (2003), as well as recent articles such as 'Debris: autoethnography, feminist epistemology, ethics, and sexual violence' (2024) and the forthcoming Gendered Violence Through Image, Word, and Gesture: A Veminist Research Praxis (2025). She has received the LARR University of Florida Best Article Award (2023), LASA-Peru Section Flora Tristan Best Book Award (2024), and Premio Iberoamericano Book Award Honorable Mention (2024).