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by Charli Carpenter

29 July 2013, 1628 EDT

I am delighted to report that Steve Saideman, Robert Kelly and Megan MacKenzie will be joining the ranks of permanent Duck contributors as of today.

This leaves room for new guest bloggers: Stacie Goddard, Johannes Urpelainen and Jillian Schwedler.

Stacie Goddard joins us from Wellesley College where she teaches international conflict, specializing in diplomacy, security studies, weapons and war and network politics. She is the author of Indivisible Territory and the Politics of Legitimacy: Jerusalem and Northern Ireland. Stacie is also a member of the International Studies Association‘s Governing Council, an avid backpacker, and a super-mom.

Johannes Urpelainen is Assistant Professor at Columbia University. His research focuses on international cooperation and institutions, especially in the field of global environmental governance. He is completing a book on international institutions and economic reform, and has published extensively in journals such as Journal of Conflict Resolution, International Theory and European Journal of International Relations. He has consulted for the Government of Finland and blogs at ClimatePolitics.

Jillian Schwedler is in transition from University of Massachusetts-Amherst to join the political science faculty at Hunter College at City University of New York. Jillian is a comparative Middle East specialist with research interests in protest and policing in Jordan, identity politics, contentious politics, and state repression. She is the author of Faith in Moderation: Islamist Parties in Jordan and Yemen -and is currently completing a new book manuscript tentatively titled “Protesting Jordan: Law, Space, Dissent.” In addition to teaching, writing, rock-climbing and raising fabulous twin boys, Jillian spends time galavanting around Middle Eastern revolutions, appearing on Bloggingheads.tv and writing for the Arab Press.

Welcome all!

Charli Carpenter is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. She is the author of 'Innocent Women and Children': Gender, Norms and the Protection of Civilians (Ashgate, 2006), Forgetting Children Born of War: Setting the Human Rights
Agenda in Bosnia and Beyond (Columbia, 2010), and ‘Lost’ Causes: Agenda-Setting in Global Issue Networks and the Shaping of Human Security (Cornell, 2014). Her main research interests include national security ethics, the protection of civilians, the laws of war, global agenda-setting, gender and political violence, humanitarian affairs, the role of information technology in human security, and the gap between intentions and outcomes among advocates of human security.

Charli Carpenter is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. She is the author of 'Innocent Women and Children': Gender, Norms and the Protection of Civilians (Ashgate, 2006), Forgetting Children Born of War: Setting the Human Rights
Agenda in Bosnia and Beyond (Columbia, 2010), and ‘Lost’ Causes: Agenda-Setting in Global Issue Networks and the Shaping of Human Security (Cornell, 2014). Her main research interests include national security ethics, the protection of civilians, the laws of war, global agenda-setting, gender and political violence, humanitarian affairs, the role of information technology in human security, and the gap between intentions and outcomes among advocates of human security.

2 Comments

  1. Jarrod Hayes
    Jarrod Hayes on 29 July 2013 at 22.37 EDT

    very cool

  2. Scott McWilliams
    Scott McWilliams on 30 July 2013 at 22.14 EDT

    Looking forward to more posts from Dr. MacKenzie…and maybe a baby pic or two?