Rate My Professor Laura J. Shepherd

Shepherd's research focuses on feminist International Relations, gender politics, security, and peacebuilding, particularly the Women, Peace and Security agenda. Her influential monographs include Narrating the Women, Peace and Security Agenda: Logics of Global Governance (Oxford University Press, 2021), Gender, Peacebuilding and the Politics of Space: Locating Legitimacy (Oxford University Press, 2017), Gender, Violence and Popular Culture: Telling Stories (Routledge, 2013), and Gender, Violence and Security: Discourse as Practice (Zed Books, 2008). She co-authored Civil Society, Care Labour, and the Women, Peace and Security Agenda: Making 1325 Work (Routledge, 2021). Select articles comprise 'The paradox of prevention in the Women, Peace and Security agenda' (European Journal of International Security, 2020), 'Women, Peace and Security: Mapping the (Re)Production of a Policy Ecosystem' (Journal of Global Security Studies, 2020, with Paul Kirby), and 'Gender and countering violent extremism in Women, Peace and Security national action plans' (European Journal of Politics and Gender, 2020, with Doris Asante). Her work garners over 7,000 citations on Google Scholar. Major honors include the International Studies Association Feminist Theory and Gender Studies Book Prize (2019), British International Studies Association Susan Strange Book Prize (2018), and Australian Political Studies Association Carole Pateman Book Prize (2019), all for Gender, Peacebuilding and the Politics of Space; International Studies Association Ladd Hollister Service Award (2021); ARC@UNSW Award for Excellence in Postgraduate Research Supervision (2015); and University of Birmingham Award for Excellence in Teaching (2010).