Jennifer L. Erickson is an associate professor of political science and international studies at Boston College. Her research interests include international security and arms control, conventional arms exports, sanctions and arms embargoes, nuclear governance, and the laws and norms of war. Her first book, Dangerous Trade: Arms Exports, Human Rights, and International Reputation (Columbia, 2015) was the winner of the APSA Foreign Policy Section’s 2017 Best Book Award. Her current book project explores the historical and contemporary cases of new weapons technologies and the creation of new laws and norms of war. She was also a member of the research team for the World Peace Foundation’s Defense Industries, Foreign Policy, and Armed Conflict project at Tufts University, funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Currently, Erickson is the managing editor at H-Diplo’s International Security Studies Forum, a faculty affiliate at MIT’s Security Studies Program, and a Forum on the Arms Trade member and emerging expert mentor. Previously, she has been a research fellow at Stanford University, the Stiftung Wissenchaft und Politik (SWP), and the Wissenschaftszentrum (WZB) in Berlin, as well as a faculty affiliate at Harvard University and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Dartmouth College. She has recently completed a term as an associate editor at Security Studies and is a currently member of the editorial boards at Security Studies and International Studies Quarterly. She has a B.A. in Political Science from St. Olaf College and a Ph.D. in Government from Cornell University.
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