Prof. Anna Leander

Profile

Anna Leander is Professor of International Relations/Political Science. She previously held positions at Central European University in Budapest, the Copenhagen Peace Research Institute, the University of Southern Denmark, the Copenhagen Business School, the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg, the Collegio Carlo Alberto and the Judith Reppy Institute for Peace andConflict Studies at Cornell University and at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. Her research is in International Political Sociology. She has a longstanding interest in connecting sociological approaches and International Relations and in the commercialization of military and security matters. Her current research focusses on four interrelated themes: the commercial security politics of mundane material objects; of digital infrastructures; of aesthetics; and of expertise in International Relations. Anna is currently a principal investigator on the project The Future of Humanitarian Design. She co-edits Voices in International Relations (Oxford University Press).

Thematic expertise

• Digital technologies
• Humanitarian action & intervention
• Critical & human security studies
• Intersectional inequalities & emancipation
• Artificial intelligence & big data
• Colonialism, decolonisation & postcolonialism
• Armed conflicts, violence
• Technology governance
• Cybersecurity & cyberthreats

Theme

• Arts and Culture
• Technology
• Security
• Information and Media
• Humanitarianism
• Justice, Equity and Inclusion