About

Susanne Zwingel is Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Florida International University. Her research interests are women’s human rights and their translation, women’s movements and public gender policies around the world, global governance and gender, and feminist and post-colonial IR theories. She is author of Translating International Women’s Rights: The CEDAW Convention in Context (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) and co-editor of Feminist Strategies in International Governance with Elisabeth Prügl and Gülay Caglar (Routledge, 2013). Her work has appeared in a number of edited volumes as well as a wide range of journals including International Feminist Journal of Politics, International Studies Quarterly, Politics and Gender, International Studies Review, and Third World Thematics. She currently works on transnational gender norm translation in South Florida and the Caribbean.

Research Interests

Gender, Governance, Human Rights, Institutions, International Relations, Social Justice, Social Movements, UN, Political Sociology, Constructivism, Feminism, Methods, Qualitative, Race, NGOs

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Standing Groups and Research Networks

• Gender and Politics