Laura Sjoberg is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Florida. She is author of Gender, Justice, and the Wars in Iraq (2006); Mothers, Monsters, Whores: Women’s Violence in Global Politics (with Caron Gentry, 2007); Gendering Global Conflict: Towards a Feminist Theory of War (2013), and Gender, War, and Conflict (2014). She is currently editor of the International Feminist Journal of Politics and International Studies Review, and has edited several books and special issues, including, most recently, Queer International Relations (a forum in International Studies Review with Cynthia Weber). Her work has been published in more than two dozen political science and International Relations journals, and she currently serves as the Vice President of the International Studies Association.