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Security Dialogue, International Feminist Journal of Politics and is the
Associate Editor of Critical Studies on Security. She is the author and editor
of several books and journal articles and regularly contributes to media
debates as an op-ed writer. Most recently, she has co-edited the Routledge
Handbook of Feminist Peace Research, and a Special Issue on ‘Colonial
Legacies in Africa’ in Third World Quarterly.

Dr. Soumita Basu
Assistant Professor, Department of IR, South Asian University, New Delhi

Dr. Soumita Basu is Assistant Professor in International
Relations at the South Asian University, New Delhi. She is
also a Research Fellow at the University of the Free State,
Bloemfontein, South Africa. Soumita has previously held a
Senior Guest Professorship at the University of Würzburg, Germany,
as well as the Hayward R. Alker and Mellon postdoctoral fellowships at
the University of Southern California and Kenyon College respectively in
the United States. She has also worked with Women in Security, Conflict
Management and Peace (WISCOMP) in New Delhi and Kashmir, and the
Peace Women project of the Women’s International League for Peace and
Freedom (WILPF) in New York. Soumita has published on gender, security
and the United Nations in edited volumes as well as journals, including
International Affairs, International Feminist Journal of Politics, International
Political Science Review, International Studies Perspectives, Millennium:
Journal of International Studies, Politics & Gender, and Security Dialogue.
Her most recent publication is a co-edited volume, New Directions in
Women, Peace and Security (Bristol University Press, 2020), with Paul Kirby
and Laura J. Shepherd. Soumita is a Senior Editor of the Oxford Research
Encyclopedia of International Studies, and serves on the editorial boards of
International Feminist Journal of Politics, Politics & Gender, and Review of
International Studies.

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