Women and United States Foreign Policy Interview Project launches online hub
The Institute for the Study of the Americas (ISA) is proud to launch an online hub for its Women and US Foreign Policy Interview Project. The project is creating an online repository of interview data exploring the multidimensional relationship between US foreign policy and women. The hub is an online space where academics, researchers and others can access interview material, guide the development of the project, engage with others also interested in politics, gender and history, and read the project blog.
The first of many interviews has been placed on the hub and new interviews will be added regularly. This first interview is with Dr. Nora Bensahel, the current Deputy Director of Studies and Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security and previously of the RAND Corporation (Washington, D.C.). Dr. Bensahel talks about her experiences as a woman working within the US foreign policy architecture, discusses projects she has worked on that have helped shape US foreign policy, and offers her perspective on current US foreign policy issues.
Interviews are conducted with four categories of people: women involved in making or shaping US foreign policy; people who are involved in promoting a gender-concerned foreign policy; women affected by US foreign policy, and experts discussing different dimensions of the relationship between women and US foreign policy. Therefore, this project supports the investigation of a wide variety of political issues as well as gender-based and historical studies.
Interviews will be made available for playing and downloading free of charge through the Women and US Foreign Policy Interview Project iTunes U webpage. Transcripts will also be available to read.
You can follow updates on this project and other US-related news on Twitter @MatthewAlanHill and @ISA_SAS.
The project is also seeking people to contribute to its blog. We want people to write about their interests and research related to the focus of the project. For example, posts could be about contemporary US foreign policy towards Libya, gender discrimination in the US foreign policy workplace, or the Clinton administration’s attitudes to humanitarian interventions. Each prospective blog entry should be about 500-600 words.
Contact details:
If you are interested in being interviewed, have any suggestions on who should be interviewed, want to write for the blog, or have further questions please contact the principal investigator, Dr. Matthew Alan Hill:
Dr. Matthew Alan Hill
Postdoctoral research fellow in U.S. Politics and History
Institute for the Study of the Americas
School of Advanced Study
University of London
Senate House, Malet St.
London WC1E 7HU -- UK
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7862 8690
Email: matthew.hill@sas.ac.uk
Web: http://americas.sas.ac.uk/about/matt.html
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