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Cristina Masters is a Lecturer in International Politics in the Department of Politics at the University of Manchester, where she has been faculty since 2006 after previously teaching at McMaster University in Canada. She specializes in feminist international relations with research centered on war practices, technology, and gender dynamics.
Dr. Masters earned her Doctor of Philosophy in Gender, Technology & War: Making Feminist Sense of Advanced Technology in War from York University (awarded September 2008), complemented by a MA Postgraduate Diploma in Security Studies from the same institution.
Her research interrogates how gender and difference enable specific war practices, focusing on US military technology, everyday war in the War on Terror, and non-structural theoretical frameworks that challenge dominant epistemologies. Current collaborative work with Dr. Linda Åhäll examines misogyny's role in global politics through interdisciplinary feminist lenses.
Publications from 2016-2020 reveal consistent engagement with feminist critiques of international relations, emphasizing biopolitics, cinematic war representations, and academic labor politics. Key trends include analyzing drone warfare's gendered implications, war museum experiences, and how cinematic spectatorship shapes liberal war participation.
Dr. Masters has supervised 15 PhD students (4 current, 11 completed), with major funding from ESRC and School of Social Sciences studentships. Student research spans staff sexual violence in academia, bodily fluids and (in)security, female ex-combatants in Nepal/Liberia, masculinities in radicalization, and conflict-related sexual violence in Congo.
