Daniel H. Nexon - Harry Potter and International Relations

Brian Folker is an assistant professor of English literature at Central Connecticut State University.

Maia A. Gemmill is a masters candidate at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, where she is studying Russian and Eurasian studies. Her interests include nationalism, civil society, and the intersection of religion and politics.

Patricia M. Goff is assistant professor of political science at Wilfrid Laurier University and special research fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI). She specializes in international political economy and international relations theory. She is coeditor, with Kevin C. Dunn, of Identity and Global Politics: Empirical and Theoretical Elaborations, and coeditor, with Paul Heinbecker, of Irrelevant or Indispensable: The United Nations in the 21st Century.

Martin Hall is a researcher in political science at Lund University, Sweden. His main research interests lie in the intersection of international relations theory and historical sociology. He is coauthor (with Christer Jnsson) of Essence of Diplomacy, and he has published articles in International Studies Perspectives, European Journal of International Relations, Review of International Political Economy, and Cooperation and Conflict.

Patrick Thaddeus Jackson is currently assistant professor of international relations in the School of International Service at the American University in Washington, D.C., having previously taught at Columbia University and New York University. Jacksons research interests include culture and agency, international relations theory (particularly the intersection of realism and constructivism), sociological methodology, the role of rhetoric in public life, the concept of Western Civilization, and the political and social theory of Max Weber. He has published articles in numerous journals and is the author of Civilizing the Enemy: German Reconstruction and the Invention of the West, forthcoming from the University of Michigan Press.

Torbjrn L. Knutsen (PhD in International Studies, University of Denver, 1985) is professor of international relations in the department of sociology and political science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), in Trondheim, Norway. His publications include A History of International Relations Theory and The Rise and Fall of World Orders. His interests include diplomatic history, history of ideas, and issues of war and peace.

David Long is professor of international affairs in the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University. He is the author of a study on J. A. Hobson, as well as the coeditor of books on disciplinary history and international functionalism.

Peter Mandaville is associate professor of government and politics and director of the Center for Global Studies at George Mason University. He is the author of Transnational Muslim Politics: Reimagining the Umma and has also coedited two volumes of essays, The Zen of International Relations and Meaning and International Relations. Previous teaching and research affiliations include the University of Kent at Canterbury, American University, and the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Iver B. Neumann is assistant professor of Russian studies at Oslo University and research professor at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs. He holds an M.Phil in social anthropology from Oslo University and a D.Phil in politics from Oxford University. Among his twelve books is Uses of the Other: The East in European Identity Formation, which has been published in both English and Russian editions. He recently published a piece on Harry Potter and religion in European Journal of Cultural Studies.

Daniel H. Nexon received his doctorate in political science from Columbia University. In 2001-2002, he was a MacArthur Consortium Fellow at Stanford Universitys Center for International Security and Cooperation. He is currently assistant professor in the Department of Government and the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and, during 2005-2006, was a postdoctoral fellow at the Mershon Institute at Ohio State University. He has published articles and chapters on international relations theory, globalization, and American foreign policy, including one, with Patrick Thaddeus Jackson, exploring parallels between narratives in Star Trek and American foreign policy.

Bahar Rumelili (PhD, University of Minnesota, 2002) is assistant professor in the Department of International Relations at Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey. Previously, she worked as a Research Fellow in the EU and Border Conflicts project, funded by the EUs Fifth Framework Programme. Her research has focused on security communities, self/other interaction in IR, and the EUs impact on the Greek-Turkish conflicts and domestic transformation in Turkey. Her articles have appeared in the European Journal of International Relations and the Review of International Studies .

Jennifer Sterling-Folker is an associate professor of political science at the University of Connecticut. She is author of Making Sense of International Relations Theory .

Ann Towns (PhD, University of Minnesota) currently holds a post-doc at the Department of Political Science, Gteborg University, in Sweden. She writes on norms and inequality in international society, with a focus on the status of women as a mechanism of international rank. Her dissertation work has received Best Paper Awards from the International Studies Association and the American Political Science Association and is currently being reworked into a book manuscript. Her current research is titled Culture on Trial? Gender, Lethal Violence and the Maintenance of Civilizational Rank in the Swedish Legal System.