Shampa Biswas is Paul Garrett Professor of Political Science at Whitman College. Her teaching and research interests are in postcolonial International Relations, international security, globalization, nationalism, and gender. She is the author of Nuclear Desire: Power and the Postcolonial Nuclear Order (2014), co-editor of International Relations and States of Exception: Margins, Peripheries, and Excluded Bodies (2010), and Torture: Power, Democracy, and the Human Body (2011), and has published numerous articles.