Dr. Anne Sisson Runyan

Anne Sisson Runyan, PhD in International Relations, is Professor Emerita in the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Cincinnati (UC). She founded and coordinated the Political Science doctoral concentration in Feminist Comparative and International Politics, formerly headed the UC Department of Women’s Studies (currently known as the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies for which she also served as a graduate director and affiliate faculty member), and served as the Interim Faculty Chair and Director of the Charles Phelps Taft Research Center at UC where she is also served as a Taft Research Center Fellow. She previously founded and directed women’s studies programs at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Potsdam and at Wright State University (WSU) where she held tenured appointments in political science and chaired the SUNY Potsdam Politics Department. She has also taught in Canada and Europe, including serving as a Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in North American Integration at York University in Toronto and a Visiting Scholar and Inaugural Fellow of the Research Centre on International Political Economy at the University of Amsterdam, and studied and guest-lectured in many parts of the world. A pioneer of the field of feminist international relations, she has been a recipient of the Society for Women in International Political Economy Mentor Award and the Eminent Feminist International Relations Scholar Award from the Feminist Theory and Gender Studies Section (which she helped found and led) of the International Studies Association (ISA), and has served as a Vice President of ISA, currently chairing its Research Workshop Grant Committee. Her authored, co-authored, and co-edited books include Global Gender Politics (next edition in progress), Global Gender Issues (4 editions), Gender and Global Restructuring/s (2 editions, third forthcoming December 2024), and Feminist (Im)Mobilities in Fortress(ing) North America with another monograph in progress on Indigenous women resisting nuclear colonialism, and she has published widely in the fields of feminist world politics and transnational feminisms.She has served on a range of editorial boards and was an associate editor of the International Feminist Journal of Politics for which she organized and hosted its fifth annual conference and guest-edited two special issues. In addition to her experience leading a major humanities research center funded by a substantial endowment yielding a $1.3 million annual budget as well as four academic departments and programs offering graduate and undergraduate degrees, she has been a leader in several professional organizations, including ISA, the National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA), and the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). She was awarded the AAUP Georgina M. Smith Award in 2020 for her contributions to raising the status of academic women through her union, scholarly, campus, and professional association work. She has also won multiple external and internal grants and fellowships; completed a $1.5 million capital campaign for UC Women’s Studies; directed or co-directed several collaborative research, international exchange, curricular, and conference projects; and chaired and/or served on countless campus and faculty union governance bodies. She has taught a range of graduate and undergraduate courses particularly in the areas of feminist global political economy and security studies, feminist political and international relations theory and methods, and transnational feminism at multiple institutions as well as chaired and/or served on many MA and PhD committees. For her achievements as a feminist scholar, leader, administrator, teacher, and mentor, she has received numerous internal and external awards, including being inducted for life into the UC Fellows of the Graduate School in 2020.