About

Anne Sisson Runyan, PhD in International Relations, is Professor of Political Science and a faculty affiliate of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) at the University of Cincinnati (UC). She founded and coordinates the Political Science doctoral concentration in Feminist Comparative and International Politics, formerly headed the Department of Women’s Studies, and served as the Interim Faculty Chair and Director of the Charles Phelps Taft Research Center at UC. 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 fellow at the University of Amsterdam, and studied and guest-lectured in many parts of the world.

A pioneer in the field of feminist international relations, a recipient of the Eminent Scholar Award from the Feminist Theory and Gender Studies Section of the International Studies Association (ISA), and currently a Vice President of ISA, her books include Global Gender Politics, Global Gender Issues (4 editions), Gender and Global Restructuring (2 editions, third in progress), and Feminist (Im)Mobilities in Fortress(ing) North America and she has published widely in the fields of feminist world politics and transnational feminisms. She serves 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.

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), latter giving her the 2020 Georgina M. Smith Award for career achievement in raising the status of academic women. She has also won multiple external and internal grants; completed a $1.5 million capital campaign for 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 transnational feminism at multiple institutions as well as chaired and/or served on many MA and PhD committees. For her achievements as a feminist researcher, administrator, organizer, fundraiser, outreach coordinator, and mentor, she has received numerous other internal and external awards.