V. Spike Peterson

V. Spike Peterson is an international relations professor at the University of Arizona, as part of the School of Government and Public Policy. Her work included designations in the Institute for LGBT Studies, Department of Gender and Women's Studies, International Studies, and the Center for Latin American Studies. Her research and teaching is cross-disciplinary, with an international focus, specifically concerned with international relations theory, gender and politics, global political economy, and contemporary social theory.[1] Professor Peterson is 'considered to be among the most internationally important senior scholars currently working at the intersections of International Relations, Feminist and Queer Theory, and of International Political Economy.'[2]

Career

Like other feminist scholars in the field of International Relations, Peterson studies the workings of power, and socially-constructed ideas about gender, in global politics. Rethinking the terms of IR analyses, International Relations scholars using a feminist lens seek to broaden the space in which critical approaches to politics are explored - amongst other features of the international system, critiques are applied to the social reproduction of identities and ideologies, heteronormativity, and structural hierarchies. Peterson describes her research and personal interests as concerned with difference, and with crossing borders - both 'conceptually and territorially'.[3] She has written and published over 75 book chapters and journal articles.[4] As well as her role at the University of Arizona, she has been an Associate Fellow at the Gender Institute, London School of Economics (2008-2011), and has held Visiting Research Scholar or Professorships at Durham University (2014), the London School of Economics (2007, 2008), University of Göteborg (2000), University of Bristol (1998) and the Australian National University (1995).[5]

Peterson has been awarded a MacArthur Foundation Research and Writing Grant (1996), a Fulbright Scholarship for research in the Czech Republic (1997), an Udall Center Public Policy Fellowship (2007), and a Rockefeller Bellagio Scholarly Residency (2008).[6] Throughout her career Peterson has received numerous awards, including the national Mentor Award of the Society for Women in International Political Economy (2000), and two awards at the University of Arizona: the Provost's General Education Teaching Award (2001), and the Magellan Circle Award for Teaching Excellence (2008).[7]

V. Spike Peterson holds a Ph.D. in International Relations, from American University, Washington, DC, 1988, an M.A. in Social Science: Anthropology/African Studies, from the University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, 1975 and a B.S. with Honors, in Psychology/Philosophy, from the University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, 1970.[8]

Publications
  • Gendered States: Feminist (Re)Visions of International Relations Theory (Ed.) (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1992). ISBN 978-1555873288
  • Global Gender Issues (Dilemmas in World Politics), with Professor Anne Sisson Runyan (Westview Press, 1993). ISBN 978-0813313108
  • Global Gender Issues in the New Millennium (Dilemmas in World Politics) with Professor Anne Sisson Runyan (Westview Press, 2013).
  • A Critical Rewriting of Global Political Economy: Integrating Reproductive, Productive and Virtual Economies (Routledge, 2003).
  • "Sex Matters." International Feminist Journal of Politics 16 (2014), 3: 389-409.
  • "Transgressing boundaries: Theories of knowledge, gender and international relations" Millenium 21 (1992): 183-206.
  • "Whose Rights? A Critique of the" Givens" in Human Rights Discourse." Alternatives: Global, Local, Political 15.3 (1990): 303-344.
  • "How (the meaning of) gender matters in political economy." New Political Economy 10.4 (2005): 499-521.

References
  1. "V. Spike Peterson | School of Government & Public Policy". sgpp.arizona.edu. Retrieved 2016-12-08.
  2. "Institute of Advanced Study : Professor V Spike Peterson - Durham University". www.dur.ac.uk. Retrieved 2016-12-08.
  3. "V. Spike Peterson". www.u.arizona.edu. Retrieved 2016-12-08.
  4. "V. Spike Peterson | School of Government & Public Policy". sgpp.arizona.edu. Retrieved 2016-12-08.
  5. "V. Spike Peterson | School of Government & Public Policy". sgpp.arizona.edu. Retrieved 2016-12-08.
  6. "V. Spike Peterson Ph.D. | The Department of Gender & Women's Studies". gws.arizona.edu. Retrieved 2018-11-27.
  7. "V. Spike Peterson Ph.D. | The Department of Gender & Women's Studies". gws.arizona.edu. Retrieved 2018-11-27.
  8. Peterson, V. Spike. "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-08-12.
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