Prof Caron Gentry

Professor

Head of the School of International Relations

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 462991

Email

ceg1@st-andrews.ac.uk

Biography

Caron's main research is gender and terrorism. Her most recent book is Disordered Violence: How Gender, Race, and Heteronormativity Structure Terrorism (Edinburgh University Press, 2020).  Her other publications include Mothers, Monsters, Whores (Zed, 2007) and its revised second edition, Beyond Mothers, Monsters, Whores (Zed, 2015) both co-written with Laura Sjoberg.  Her articles on gender and terrorism have been published in Terrorism and Political Violence, Critical Studies on Terrorism, Critical Studies on Security, International Relations, International Feminist Journal of Politics, among others. 

Caron also writes on feminist political theology. Her monographs in this area include This American Moment: A Feminist Christian Realist Intervention (Oxford University Press, 2018) and Offering Hospitality (University of Notre Dame Press, 2013).  She has articles in International Affairs, the International Feminist Journal of Politics and Journal of International Relations and Development. 

She is on the editorial boards for the International Feminist Journal of Politics and Critical Studies on Terrorism.  Caron has also chaired the Feminist Theory and Gender Studies Section of the International Studies Association and the International Studies Association-West region.

Teaching

• Critical Terrorism Studies (IR3064)
• Gender and Terrorism (IR4542)
• Gender and Terrorism (IR5042)
• Critical Security Studies (IR5061)

Research areas

Caron has two main interrelated research areas. The first is gender and terrorism, in which she explores not just the gendered nature of women?s participation in political violence and the narratives that surround them, but how terrorist violence is constructed within gender, race, and heteronormative structures. Her second research focus is feminist political theology in which she articulates an alternative to Christian Realism: feminist Christian Realism.

PhD supervision

• Leo Nwoye
• Antonia Niehuss

Selected publications

• Disordered violence: how gender, race, and heteronormativity structure terrorism

  Gentry, C. E., Mar 2020, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 216 p. (Advances in Critical Military Studies)

  Research output: Book/Report ? Book

• The politics of hope: privilege, despair and political theology

  Gentry, C. E., 1 Mar 2020, In : International Affairs. 96, 2, p. 365-382

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Anxiety politics: creativity and feminist Christian realism

  Gentry, C. E., Jun 2019, In : Journal of International Relations and Development. 22, 2, p. 389?412 24 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Gender and terrorism

  Gentry, C. E., 22 Aug 2018, Routledge Handbook of Gender and Security. Gentry, C. E., Shepherd, L. J. & Sjoberg, L. (eds.). Abingdon; New York: Routledge

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding ? Chapter

• This American moment: a feminist Christian realism intervention

  Gentry, C. E., 27 Sep 2018, New York: Oxford University Press. 208 p. (Oxford studies in gender and international relations)

  Research output: Book/Report ? Book

• Gender and terrorism

  Gentry, C. E., 23 Aug 2017, Oxford University Press.

  Research output: Other contribution

• The ?duel? meaning of feminisation in International Relations: the rise of women and the interior logics of declinist literature

  Gentry, C. E., 3 Jan 2017, In : Global Responsibility to Protect. 9, 1, p. 101-124

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Epistemological failures: everyday terrorism in the west

  Gentry, C. E., 2016, In : Critical Studies on Terrorism. In press

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Female terrorism and militancy

  Gentry, C. E. & Sjoberg, L., 29 Apr 2016, The Routledge Handbook on Critical Terrorism Studies. Jackson, R. (ed.). New York: Routledge

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding ? Chapter

• Gender and Terrorism

  Gentry, C. E., 29 Jul 2016, Handbook on War and Gender. Sharoni, S., Welland, J., Steiner, L. & Pedersen, J. (eds.). Edward Elgar

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding ? Chapter

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