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     Helen Kinsella


Title: Assistant Professor
Office: 314 North Hall
Office Hours: Mondays 2:00 - 3:00 or By Appointment
Phone: 608.263.2396
Has Voicemail: Yes
E-Mail: hkinsella@wisc.edu
Keywords: Armed Conflict, Feminist Theory, Gender, Human Rights, Humanitarian Law


Helen M. Kinsella is an assistant professor in the Political Science Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  Her research and teaching interests include contemporary political theory, feminist theories, international law, especially international humanitarian and human rights, armed conflict, and especially gender and armed conflict.  She is a graduate of University of Minnesota-Minneapolis and prior to her appointment at Wisconsin held pre and post doctoral fellowships at, respectively, Harvard University and Stanford University.  

Her book manuscript entitled “The image before the weapon: a critical history of the ‘combatant’ and ‘civilian’ in international law and politics” is under contract to Cornell University Press. 
 


Recent Publications

Helen Kinsella. ‘Understanding a War That is Not a War’ in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society,  Autumn 2007,  33,1, pgs.  209-231   
Helen Kinsella. ‘Gendering Grotius: Sex and Sex Difference in Laws of War’ in Political Theory, April 2006  32, 4, pgs. 61-191.   
Helen Kinsella. Discourses of Difference: Civilians, Combatants, and Compliance with the laws of war” in Review of International Studies, 2005 31, pgs. 163-185.   
 

Current Courses taught for Fall 2009-2010

695 - Gender & Security

Instructors: Helen Kinsella      Field: International Relations

931 - Seminar - Political Theory (Topic: Feminist Theory)

Instructors: Helen Kinsella      Field: Political Theory