Kara Ann Hooser
@kahooser.bsky.social
Assistant Instructional Professor, Committee on International Relations at UChicago; researching and teaching about feminist peace
Last week marked the last day of my Critical Security Studies seminar. We cap out our quarter together by discussing what stuck with us and what might have shifted in how we see the world. Without fail, the responses on this last day are always a reminder of why I love teaching this course…
December 7, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Last week marked the last day of my Critical Security Studies seminar. We cap out our quarter together by discussing what stuck with us and what might have shifted in how we see the world. Without fail, the responses on this last day are always a reminder of why I love teaching this course…
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Annika Bergman Rosamond discusses:
'The protection of cultural property in times of armed conflict: Ethics, gender, and coloniality' in new Review of International Studies article & video abstract 🌟
Read and watch now! 👉 https://ow.ly/6bL150XyvMt
Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR
'The protection of cultural property in times of armed conflict: Ethics, gender, and coloniality' in new Review of International Studies article & video abstract 🌟
Read and watch now! 👉 https://ow.ly/6bL150XyvMt
Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR
November 27, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Annika Bergman Rosamond discusses:
'The protection of cultural property in times of armed conflict: Ethics, gender, and coloniality' in new Review of International Studies article & video abstract 🌟
Read and watch now! 👉 https://ow.ly/6bL150XyvMt
Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR
'The protection of cultural property in times of armed conflict: Ethics, gender, and coloniality' in new Review of International Studies article & video abstract 🌟
Read and watch now! 👉 https://ow.ly/6bL150XyvMt
Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR
What happens when we teach politics through poetry, story, sound, film, and art?
Tomorrow at ISA Northeast, I’ll be moderating a roundtable on creative pedagogy in political science, bringing together some amazing educators who use arts-based methods to rethink what learning can look and feel like🧵
Tomorrow at ISA Northeast, I’ll be moderating a roundtable on creative pedagogy in political science, bringing together some amazing educators who use arts-based methods to rethink what learning can look and feel like🧵
November 7, 2025 at 3:22 AM
What happens when we teach politics through poetry, story, sound, film, and art?
Tomorrow at ISA Northeast, I’ll be moderating a roundtable on creative pedagogy in political science, bringing together some amazing educators who use arts-based methods to rethink what learning can look and feel like🧵
Tomorrow at ISA Northeast, I’ll be moderating a roundtable on creative pedagogy in political science, bringing together some amazing educators who use arts-based methods to rethink what learning can look and feel like🧵
Was such a pleasure to be a part of this conversation!
Thanks to @yanarodgers.bsky.social, Debotri Dhar, Revecca Pedi, and @kahooser.bsky.social for an inclusive and empowering discussion on #Women in #InternationalRelations. The audience members joined in from 26 countries across six continents!
October 14, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Was such a pleasure to be a part of this conversation!
It was an honor being in conversation with the Community of Practice on Men, Masculinities, and Peace, spearheaded by WILFP's Mobilizing Men for Feminist Peace, Pax Netherlands, and the VIP Lab at USD. Alongside Ray Acheson and Germán Otálora-Gallego, and moderated by Henri Myrttinen…
June 30, 2025 at 3:04 PM
It was an honor being in conversation with the Community of Practice on Men, Masculinities, and Peace, spearheaded by WILFP's Mobilizing Men for Feminist Peace, Pax Netherlands, and the VIP Lab at USD. Alongside Ray Acheson and Germán Otálora-Gallego, and moderated by Henri Myrttinen…
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It's out 🎉😊❤️ In 'Teaching to say "no"' (published now in
@teachinginhe.bsky.social) Jennifer P. Eggert,
@lewisturner.bsky.social
& I build on decolonial, indigenous scholarship to discuss how university teachers can teach their students how to refuse to engage in harmful research.
bit.ly/43XMzYG
@teachinginhe.bsky.social) Jennifer P. Eggert,
@lewisturner.bsky.social
& I build on decolonial, indigenous scholarship to discuss how university teachers can teach their students how to refuse to engage in harmful research.
bit.ly/43XMzYG
Teaching to say ‘no’: pedagogies of refusal in the social sciences classroom (and beyond)
Although not new, debates about researchers’ refusal to engage in (potentially) unethical and harmful research have recently gained traction in the social sciences, stressing the need for researche...
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June 25, 2025 at 12:01 PM
It's out 🎉😊❤️ In 'Teaching to say "no"' (published now in
@teachinginhe.bsky.social) Jennifer P. Eggert,
@lewisturner.bsky.social
& I build on decolonial, indigenous scholarship to discuss how university teachers can teach their students how to refuse to engage in harmful research.
bit.ly/43XMzYG
@teachinginhe.bsky.social) Jennifer P. Eggert,
@lewisturner.bsky.social
& I build on decolonial, indigenous scholarship to discuss how university teachers can teach their students how to refuse to engage in harmful research.
bit.ly/43XMzYG
What a way to kick off my first BISA conference. Cynthia Enloe speaking on masculinities, militarization, disposability, and feminist resistance. Moderated by the incomparable Marsha Henry.
June 17, 2025 at 10:24 PM
What a way to kick off my first BISA conference. Cynthia Enloe speaking on masculinities, militarization, disposability, and feminist resistance. Moderated by the incomparable Marsha Henry.
Spring quarter grades are submitted and I’m feeling super inspired by the students in my Peace in International Relations seminar. Their intellectual curiosity, compassion, and creativity transformed our classroom into something truly special 🧵
June 4, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Spring quarter grades are submitted and I’m feeling super inspired by the students in my Peace in International Relations seminar. Their intellectual curiosity, compassion, and creativity transformed our classroom into something truly special 🧵
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🎉 Our congratulations to Heather Smith, this year’s ELIAS Distinguished Scholar Award recipient! 🏆 Join us to celebrate at the ELIAS Business Meeting: 📅 March 4, ⏰ 6 PM, 📍 Stevens Salon C-6
March 1, 2025 at 7:51 AM
🎉 Our congratulations to Heather Smith, this year’s ELIAS Distinguished Scholar Award recipient! 🏆 Join us to celebrate at the ELIAS Business Meeting: 📅 March 4, ⏰ 6 PM, 📍 Stevens Salon C-6
So stoked to receive this award! Thanks a million to the committee❤️
🥂 Join us to celebrate @kahooser.bsky.social , recipient of the ELIAS Early Career Instructor Excellence in Teaching Award, at the ELIAS/TCIC Joint Reception! 📅 March 4, ⏰ 7:30 PM, 📍 Williford C.
March 3, 2025 at 11:27 AM
So stoked to receive this award! Thanks a million to the committee❤️
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🥂 Join us to celebrate @kahooser.bsky.social , recipient of the ELIAS Early Career Instructor Excellence in Teaching Award, at the ELIAS/TCIC Joint Reception! 📅 March 4, ⏰ 7:30 PM, 📍 Williford C.
March 3, 2025 at 10:19 AM
🥂 Join us to celebrate @kahooser.bsky.social , recipient of the ELIAS Early Career Instructor Excellence in Teaching Award, at the ELIAS/TCIC Joint Reception! 📅 March 4, ⏰ 7:30 PM, 📍 Williford C.
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my new article that analyses the colonial logics and underpinnings of militarisation, and builds a critique of liberal feminist IR analyses and research agendas is now out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
the article also lays the conceptual framework of my forthcoming book.
the article also lays the conceptual framework of my forthcoming book.
A feminist analysis of the coloniality of militarization: thinking with Kashmir at the margins of the Global South
This article was named the winner of the 2023 Enloe Award. The committee commented: This highly original piece advances underexplored sites for decolonial theorization while embedding evocative met...
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February 21, 2025 at 10:06 AM
my new article that analyses the colonial logics and underpinnings of militarisation, and builds a critique of liberal feminist IR analyses and research agendas is now out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
the article also lays the conceptual framework of my forthcoming book.
the article also lays the conceptual framework of my forthcoming book.
Thrilled to be featured on this list TWICE! I'll be at ISA to accept the 2025 Deborah Gerner Grant from the Women's Caucus, as well as the Early Career Instructor Excellence in Teaching Award from the Education and Learning in International Affairs Section.
www.isanet.org/News/ID/6582...
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2024-2025 Award Recipients
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February 21, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Thrilled to be featured on this list TWICE! I'll be at ISA to accept the 2025 Deborah Gerner Grant from the Women's Caucus, as well as the Early Career Instructor Excellence in Teaching Award from the Education and Learning in International Affairs Section.
www.isanet.org/News/ID/6582...
www.isanet.org/News/ID/6582...
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Delighted to see our new article published! In it, Nick Robinson and I explore the value of children's books as a site of critical engagement with world politics, focusing on the forcible exclusion of unwanted individuals. Open access and free to read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
February 12, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Delighted to see our new article published! In it, Nick Robinson and I explore the value of children's books as a site of critical engagement with world politics, focusing on the forcible exclusion of unwanted individuals. Open access and free to read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Publication alert!
In this article with International Politics, I converse with @drljshepherd.bsky.social “The Self and Other Stories”, contending w. her text’s absences, and celebrating its vulnerability. I ask what it means to consider writing as doing justice.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
In this article with International Politics, I converse with @drljshepherd.bsky.social “The Self and Other Stories”, contending w. her text’s absences, and celebrating its vulnerability. I ask what it means to consider writing as doing justice.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Writing for justice, reading for absence - International Politics
Conversing with Laura Shepherd in The Self and Other Stories, this essay considers accompaniment, embodiment, expertise, and representation through a care-infused lens. I present my readings of conten...
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February 6, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Publication alert!
In this article with International Politics, I converse with @drljshepherd.bsky.social “The Self and Other Stories”, contending w. her text’s absences, and celebrating its vulnerability. I ask what it means to consider writing as doing justice.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
In this article with International Politics, I converse with @drljshepherd.bsky.social “The Self and Other Stories”, contending w. her text’s absences, and celebrating its vulnerability. I ask what it means to consider writing as doing justice.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Emma Hutchison’s work on emotions and international relations defined and informed a generation of scholarship. We have put together a special collection honoring the legacy of Emma's work, including her RIS article and 8 others which have built on it.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
January 16, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Emma Hutchison’s work on emotions and international relations defined and informed a generation of scholarship. We have put together a special collection honoring the legacy of Emma's work, including her RIS article and 8 others which have built on it.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Very happy to share our 2024 transdisciplinary book Resisting the Dehumanization of Refugees, which brings together academics, practitioners and refugees. It's open access so you can download the pdf for free or purchase a hard copy here: www.aupress.ca/books/120327...
January 5, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Very happy to share our 2024 transdisciplinary book Resisting the Dehumanization of Refugees, which brings together academics, practitioners and refugees. It's open access so you can download the pdf for free or purchase a hard copy here: www.aupress.ca/books/120327...
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December 20, 2024 at 6:43 PM
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The exhibition draws a lot on Philipp Schulz and Roxani Krystalli's (@rkrystalli.bsky.social) research project "Centering #Love and #Care in #Peace and #Conflict Studies" (www.uni-bremen.de/institut-fue...)
A Different Kind of War Story: Centering Love and Care in Peace and Conflict Studies - Universität Bremen
www.uni-bremen.de
December 16, 2024 at 2:04 PM
The exhibition draws a lot on Philipp Schulz and Roxani Krystalli's (@rkrystalli.bsky.social) research project "Centering #Love and #Care in #Peace and #Conflict Studies" (www.uni-bremen.de/institut-fue...)
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It’s here!! My essay with Stacie Goddard on pathways of nuclear nonuse @iojournal.bsky.social
January 12, 2025 at 2:25 PM
It’s here!! My essay with Stacie Goddard on pathways of nuclear nonuse @iojournal.bsky.social