Dr Jenny Mathers

BA Mount Holyoke College MPhil University of Oxford DPhil University of Oxford

Dr Jenny Mathers

Senior Lecturer in International Politics

Department of International Politics

Contact Details

Profile

Jenny Mathers received her undergraduate degree from Mount Holyoke College in the United States and her MPhil and DPhil from Oxford University. She joined the Department in 1992 while completing her DPhil thesis on Soviet ballistic missile defence policy from Stalin to Gorbachev. Her teaching and research spans two broad areas: Russian politics and security and gender and war.

Teaching

Module Coordinator
Tutor
Coordinator
Lecturer
Moderator

PhD Supervision
Russian politics
Russian security
Civil-military relations
Women and war
Gender and security

Research

Jenny Mathers is currently working on several related projects that focus on different aspects of the ongoing crisis in Ukraine, including a book that examines the crisis from the perspective of feminist security studies. She is also the co-editor (with Veronica Kitchen) and a contributor to Heroism and Global Politics (Routledge, 2018).

Responsibilities

During the 2022-23 academic year, Jenny is the Department's social media officer and a member of the admissions team.

Office Hours (Student Contact Times)

  • Thursday 10:30-11:30
  • Friday 9:30-10:30

Publications

Mathers, J 2020, Ginger Cats and Cute Puppies: Animals, Affect, and Militarisation in the Crisis in Ukraine. in C Baker (ed.), Making War on Bodies: Militarisation, Aesthetics and Embodiment in International Politics. Advances in Critical Military Studies, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, pp. 148-169.
Mathers, J 2020, 'Women, War and Austerity: IFIs and the construction of gendered economic insecurities in Ukraine', Review of International Political Economy, vol. 27, no. 6, pp. 1235-1256. 10.1080/09692290.2020.1725903
Mathers, J 2018, Medals and American heroic military masculinity after 9/11. in V Kitchen & J Mathers (eds), Heroism and Global Politics. Taylor & Francis, Abingdon, pp. 36-59.
Mathers, J 2017, Even the Toys are Demanding Free Elections: Humour and the Politics of Creative Protest in Russia. in B Beumers, A Etkind, O Gurova & S Turema (eds), Cultural Forms of Protest in Russia. 1 edn, Taylor & Francis, pp. 105-119.
Mathers, J 2012, 'Nuclear Weapons in Russian Foreign Policy: Patterns in Presidential Discourse 2000–2010', Europe-Asia Studies, vol. 64, no. 3, pp. 495-519. 10.1080/09668136.2012.661930
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