“How Sexual Violence Became a Security Issue: The Importance of Advocacy in National and International Affairs”

In celebration of its 20th year, the Zeta Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa welcomes back to campus Dr. Kerry Crawfowd ’07.

Kerry Crawford is an assistant professor of political science at James Madison University. She received a Ph.D. in political science from George Washington University (2014) and a B.A. from St. Mary’s College of Maryland, where she majored in political science (2007). Dr. Crawford’s first book, Wartime Sexual Violence: From Silence to Condemnation of a Weapon of War (2017, Georgetown University Press), examines the impact of advocates’ framing of sexual violence as a weapon of war on international efforts to mitigate conflict-related sexual violence. Her second book manuscript, Human Security: Theory and Practice (2018, Rowman & Littlefield, co-authored with David Andersen-Rodgers) examines the landscape of human security in 21^st century scholarship, policymaking, and security provision. Dr. Crawford was the International Studies Association’s 2015-2016 James N. Rosenau Postdoctoral Fellow. Her research has been published in print in Journal of Global Security Studies, Gender and Development, Armed Forces & Society, and Air and Space Power Journal, and online through openDemocracy, the Monkey Cage (Washington Post), and the United States Institute of Peace.

Dr. Crawford‘s visit is sponsored by the Office of the President and the Department of Political Science.