About Megan MacKenzie
I’m a Professor and Simons Chair in International Law and Human Security in the School for International Studies at Simon Fraser University.
I’m a feminist scholar interested in war, security studies, post-conflict recovery and reconstruction, and military culture.
My work is broadly focused on the ways that gender matters in understanding war and insecurity and the ways that experiences of war and insecurity are shaped by gendered norms and sexism.
I have been studying military culture and gender integration in the military for over a decade, which includes projects on military sexual violence, the integration of women into combat roles, and military suicide. I also have worked on issues related to post-conflict transitions and feminist solutions to ending war. This work includes projects on disarmament programs, amnesty provisions in peace agreements, truth and reconciliation commissions, and a series and edited book on feminist solutions to ending war. I am also involved in a research hub on images and international relations, based at the University of Copenhagen.
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D. Phil. University of Alberta
M.A. University of Saskatchewan
B.A. University of Regina
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International Security
Gender and war
Feminism and IR
Images and IR
Military culture
International laws of war
Post-conflict reconstruction
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“I remain hopeful about the possibility of someday ending political violence, or at least squinting towards that political horizon. So that we may do justice to the legacy of the revolutionaries who come before us, as well as those who are acting now—whose struggle that we as scholars, in some ways, share in.”