Anna M Agathangelou
Professor
Office: Ross Building, S653
Phone: (416)736-2100 Ext: 88840
Email: agathang@yorku.ca
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Professor Agathangelou teaches in the areas of international relations and women and politics. Some of her areas of expertise are time and temporality in global politics, the body, time and ecology, international feminist political economy and feminist/postcolonial and decolonial thought. She is the co-director of Global Change Institute, Cyprus and was a visiting fellow in the Program of Science, Technology and Society at John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard (2014-2015). She is currently involved on two multinational SSHRC partnership research projects focusing on sexual violence and human security, global governance, and biotechnology. She has researched ethnic conflict in Cyprus, as well as reconstruction in post-conflict societies with a focus on sexual violence, displaced peoples and the missing.
Degrees
PhD, Syracuse UniversityMA, Syracuse University
BA, Miami University
Appointments
Faculty of Graduate StudiesProfessional Leadership
2014-Present. International Studies Association, Vice-Chair of Science, Technology and Art In International Relations (STAIR), Elected Position 2014-2017. International Studies Association, Diversity Committee Member, Appointed position 2014. Co-Founder and Co-Organizer of the section on Art, Science and Technology (STAIR), International Studies Association, Proposal to ISA, March 2014
Community Contributions
2001-Present. Co-Director of Global Change Institute, Nicosia Cyprus 2015. Summer School on Scientific Objects and Digital Cosmopolitanism (Part of Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada,Partnership Development Project, "Cosmopolitanism and the local in science and nature: Creating an East /West Partnership), Manipal Centre for Philosophy and Humanities, Manipal University, India, July 20-24 2015. Co-Organizer of the Post-conflict Reconstruction Workshop, University of Nicosia, York University Initiative Unit, July 30-31
Research Interests
2016. Time, Temporality and Violence in International Relations: (De) Fatalizing the Present, Forging Radical Alternatives, (co-editor with Kyle D. Killian), Series, Interventions,
2013. Arab Revolutions and World Transformations (co-editor with Nevzat Soguk). Series, Rethinking Globalizations, Routledge. Paperback (2014).
2009. World Politics From Empire to Multiple Worlds (co-authored with L.H.M. Ling). New York and London: Routledge.
2004. The Global Political Economy of Sex: Desire, Violence, and Insecurity in Mediterranean Nation States. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, 226 pages.
“Decolonial Ethics: The Question of Time and Invention” in Birgit Schippers (forthcoming) Rethinking Ethics in International Relations, Ashgate Research Companion.
(with Killian, K.D.) (2019). “Paved with good intentions: The road of the humanitarian project of DNA identification of the missing in post-conflict Cyprus.” In L. Charles and G. Samarasinghe (Eds.) Family systems and global humanitarian mental health: Approaches in the field. New York: Springer.
"Sexual Affective Empires: Racialized Speculations and Wagers in the Affective IR Turn" (2019) in Eric Van Rythoven and Mira Sucharov, Parsing the Passions: Methodology and the Study of Emotion in World Politics. Routledge.
“The Time of and Temporal (Un) Civility of the City: MENA Urban Insurgencies and Revolutions" in Ricky Burdett and Suzanne Hall (September 2017) The SAGE Handbook of Urban Sociology: New Approaches to the twenty-first century city. Sage Press, pp. 349-375.
“A Conversation with Emma Hutchison and Frantz Fanon on Questions of Reading and Global Raciality” Millennium: Journal of International Politics (2019).
The Wake of War: Relationships Among Gender, Trauma, Resources and Traumatic Stress in Refugee Families (with Kyle D. Killian first author) Journal of Feminist Family Therapy 29:4 (2018): 1-26.
“What Suicide and Greece Tell Us about Precarity and Capitalism” (June 2018) in Globalizations on a special issue on Precarity edited by Ritu Vij.
From the Colonial to Feminist IR: Feminist IR Studies, the Wider FSS/GPE Research Agenda and the Questions of Value, Valuation, Security and Violence, Special Issue on Gender Political Economy and Gender Security Studies, Gender and Politics, 13: 4 (2017): 739-746.
Living Archives and Imperial Wars (2017) Critical Military Studies 3:2 (2017): 206-211
Humanitarian Innovations and Material Returns: Valuation, Bio-Financialization, and Radical Politics (forthcoming 2017) Special Issue on Global Techno-Assemblages: Entanglements of Inventions, Markets, and Labor Science, Technology and Society, 22:1 (2017): 78-101.
2016. “Archives are Part of International Knowledge, Not Merely Happenstance: In Conversation with Siba Grovogui,” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
2016. “Fanon on Decolonization and Revolution: Bodies and Dialectics” Globalizations, 13(1), 110-128.
2015. Sexual Divestments from Empire: Women’s Studies, Institutional Feelings, and the “Odious” Machine (co-authored with Dana Olwan, Tamara Spira and Heather Turcotte), Feminist Formations, 27 (3): 139-167.
2013. Neoliberal Geopolitical Order and Value: Queerness as a Speculative Economy and Anti- Blackness as Terror, (December) for a special issue titled ‘Murderous Inclusions’, International Journal of Feminist Politics 15(4): 453-476.
2012. The Living and Being of the Streets: Fanon and the Arab Uprisings. Globalizations, 9(3): 451-466.
2011. “Making Anew an Arab Regional Order? On Poetry, Sex, and Revolution” Globalizations, 8(5): 573-584.
2010. Bodies of Desire, Terror and the War in Eurasia: Impolite Disruptions of (Neo) Liberal Internationalism, Neoconservatism and the ‘New’ Imperium, Millennium—Journal of International Studies, 38(3): 1-30.
2008. Intimate Investments: Homonormativity, Global Lockdown, and Seductions of Empire (with Daniel Bassichis, & Tamara L. Spira) Radical History Review, 100: 120-144.
2005. Power and Play through Poisies: Reconstructing Self and Other in the 9/11 Commission Report Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 33(3): 827-854.
2004. The House of IR: From Family Power Politics to the Poesies of Worldism (with L.H.M. Ling) International Studies Review, 6(4): 21-50.
Current Courses
| Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall 2023 | AP/GLBL4000 6.0 | A | GPS Colloquium | ONLN |
| Fall/Winter 2023 | GS/STS6005 3.0 | A | STS Research Cluster | HYFX |
| Fall 2023 | GS/POLS7100 3.0 | A | Political Inquiry and Research Design | SEMR |
Upcoming Courses
| Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall/Winter 2023 | GS/STS6005 3.0 | A | STS Research Cluster | HYFX |
Professor Agathangelou teaches in the areas of international relations and women and politics. Some of her areas of expertise are time and temporality in global politics, the body, time and ecology, international feminist political economy and feminist/postcolonial and decolonial thought. She is the co-director of Global Change Institute, Cyprus and was a visiting fellow in the Program of Science, Technology and Society at John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard (2014-2015). She is currently involved on two multinational SSHRC partnership research projects focusing on sexual violence and human security, global governance, and biotechnology. She has researched ethnic conflict in Cyprus, as well as reconstruction in post-conflict societies with a focus on sexual violence, displaced peoples and the missing.
Degrees
PhD, Syracuse UniversityMA, Syracuse University
BA, Miami University
Appointments
Faculty of Graduate StudiesProfessional Leadership
2014-Present. International Studies Association, Vice-Chair of Science, Technology and Art In International Relations (STAIR), Elected Position 2014-2017. International Studies Association, Diversity Committee Member, Appointed position 2014. Co-Founder and Co-Organizer of the section on Art, Science and Technology (STAIR), International Studies Association, Proposal to ISA, March 2014
Community Contributions
2001-Present. Co-Director of Global Change Institute, Nicosia Cyprus 2015. Summer School on Scientific Objects and Digital Cosmopolitanism (Part of Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada,Partnership Development Project, "Cosmopolitanism and the local in science and nature: Creating an East /West Partnership), Manipal Centre for Philosophy and Humanities, Manipal University, India, July 20-24 2015. Co-Organizer of the Post-conflict Reconstruction Workshop, University of Nicosia, York University Initiative Unit, July 30-31
Research Interests
All Publications
“Decolonial Ethics: The Question of Time and Invention” in Birgit Schippers (forthcoming) Rethinking Ethics in International Relations, Ashgate Research Companion.
(with Killian, K.D.) (2019). “Paved with good intentions: The road of the humanitarian project of DNA identification of the missing in post-conflict Cyprus.” In L. Charles and G. Samarasinghe (Eds.) Family systems and global humanitarian mental health: Approaches in the field. New York: Springer.
"Sexual Affective Empires: Racialized Speculations and Wagers in the Affective IR Turn" (2019) in Eric Van Rythoven and Mira Sucharov, Parsing the Passions: Methodology and the Study of Emotion in World Politics. Routledge.
“The Time of and Temporal (Un) Civility of the City: MENA Urban Insurgencies and Revolutions" in Ricky Burdett and Suzanne Hall (September 2017) The SAGE Handbook of Urban Sociology: New Approaches to the twenty-first century city. Sage Press, pp. 349-375.
2016. Time, Temporality and Violence in International Relations: (De) Fatalizing the Present, Forging Radical Alternatives, (co-editor with Kyle D. Killian), Series, Interventions,
2013. Arab Revolutions and World Transformations (co-editor with Nevzat Soguk). Series, Rethinking Globalizations, Routledge. Paperback (2014).
2009. World Politics From Empire to Multiple Worlds (co-authored with L.H.M. Ling). New York and London: Routledge.
2004. The Global Political Economy of Sex: Desire, Violence, and Insecurity in Mediterranean Nation States. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, 226 pages.
“A Conversation with Emma Hutchison and Frantz Fanon on Questions of Reading and Global Raciality” Millennium: Journal of International Politics (2019).
The Wake of War: Relationships Among Gender, Trauma, Resources and Traumatic Stress in Refugee Families (with Kyle D. Killian first author) Journal of Feminist Family Therapy 29:4 (2018): 1-26.
“What Suicide and Greece Tell Us about Precarity and Capitalism” (June 2018) in Globalizations on a special issue on Precarity edited by Ritu Vij.
From the Colonial to Feminist IR: Feminist IR Studies, the Wider FSS/GPE Research Agenda and the Questions of Value, Valuation, Security and Violence, Special Issue on Gender Political Economy and Gender Security Studies, Gender and Politics, 13: 4 (2017): 739-746.
Living Archives and Imperial Wars (2017) Critical Military Studies 3:2 (2017): 206-211
Humanitarian Innovations and Material Returns: Valuation, Bio-Financialization, and Radical Politics (forthcoming 2017) Special Issue on Global Techno-Assemblages: Entanglements of Inventions, Markets, and Labor Science, Technology and Society, 22:1 (2017): 78-101.
2016. “Archives are Part of International Knowledge, Not Merely Happenstance: In Conversation with Siba Grovogui,” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
2016. “Fanon on Decolonization and Revolution: Bodies and Dialectics” Globalizations, 13(1), 110-128.
2015. Sexual Divestments from Empire: Women’s Studies, Institutional Feelings, and the “Odious” Machine (co-authored with Dana Olwan, Tamara Spira and Heather Turcotte), Feminist Formations, 27 (3): 139-167.
2013. Neoliberal Geopolitical Order and Value: Queerness as a Speculative Economy and Anti- Blackness as Terror, (December) for a special issue titled ‘Murderous Inclusions’, International Journal of Feminist Politics 15(4): 453-476.
2012. The Living and Being of the Streets: Fanon and the Arab Uprisings. Globalizations, 9(3): 451-466.
2011. “Making Anew an Arab Regional Order? On Poetry, Sex, and Revolution” Globalizations, 8(5): 573-584.
2010. Bodies of Desire, Terror and the War in Eurasia: Impolite Disruptions of (Neo) Liberal Internationalism, Neoconservatism and the ‘New’ Imperium, Millennium—Journal of International Studies, 38(3): 1-30.
2008. Intimate Investments: Homonormativity, Global Lockdown, and Seductions of Empire (with Daniel Bassichis, & Tamara L. Spira) Radical History Review, 100: 120-144.
2005. Power and Play through Poisies: Reconstructing Self and Other in the 9/11 Commission Report Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 33(3): 827-854.
2004. The House of IR: From Family Power Politics to the Poesies of Worldism (with L.H.M. Ling) International Studies Review, 6(4): 21-50.
Current Courses
| Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall 2023 | AP/GLBL4000 6.0 | A | GPS Colloquium | ONLN |
| Fall/Winter 2023 | GS/STS6005 3.0 | A | STS Research Cluster | HYFX |
| Fall 2023 | GS/POLS7100 3.0 | A | Political Inquiry and Research Design | SEMR |
Upcoming Courses
| Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall/Winter 2023 | GS/STS6005 3.0 | A | STS Research Cluster | HYFX |
