Heather M. Turcotte holds a joint appointment with the University of Connecticut's Women's Studies Program and Department of Political Science, and is a member of the Graduate Faculty in International Studies.  Dr. Turcotte teaches in the fields of international relations and women’s studies with a focus on inter- and multidisciplinary approaches to global politics. Dr. Turcotte’s dissertation Petro-Sexual Politics: Global Oil, Legitimate Violence and Transnational Justice examines gender violence, critical legal theory and social movements through Africana and transnational feminist frameworks to analyze how U.S.-Nigerian petroleum relations and the discourses of international security and law inform the geopolitics of sexual violence and social justice. Her forthcoming works continue to question the discourses of geopolitical segregation within state, academic and feminist collectives to analyze various manifestations of “economies of violence” and possibilities of “transnational justice.”  Dr. Turcotte is currently co-editor of “Conversations” in the International Feminist Journal of Politics and serves on the Feminist Theory and Gender Studies section executive board of the International Studies Association.

Curriculum Vitae

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Teaching (please click on a course title to view syllabus)

• POLS 2998: AFRICA IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES
• POLS 2998: GENDER AND GLOBAL POLITICS
• WS 3250: FEMINISMS
• WS 3998: GLOBAL FEMINISM
  

Publications

• “Feminist World Traveling?: Representation, Interpretation, and Translation.” (Under Contract). International Studies Compendia. Ed. Robert Denmark. Oxford: Blackwell.
  
  
• “‘Feminist’ Theoretical Inquiries and ‘IR.’” (Under Contract). Co-Authored with Anna M. Agathangelou. International Studies Compendia. Ed. Robert Denmark. Oxford: Blackwell.
  
  
• “Postcolonial Theories and Challenges to ‘First World-ism’.” (forthcoming). Co-Authored with Anna M. Agathangelou. Gender Matters in Global Politics. Ed. Laura Shepard. New York: Routledge.
  
  
• “Contending the Limits of Political Space.” (2008). International Studies Review 10.3 662-664.
  
  
• “Book Review: Feminist Methodologies for International Relations.” (2008). Co- Authored with Anna M. Agathangelou. Politics and Gender 4.1 184-187.
  
  
• “Duct Tape or Plastic?: The Political Economy of Threats and the Production of Fear.” (2005). Co-Authored with Ronnie Lipschutz. Making Threats: Biofears and Environmental Anxieties. Eds. Betsy Hartmann, Banu Subramaniam and Charles Zerner. Boulder: Rowman and Littlefield, 25-46.
  
  
• “Slippery Security: National, International and Global Security Issues within Petroleum Production.” (2002). Alternatives: Turkish Journal of International Relations 1.4 (Winter) at: http://www.alternativesjournal.com/heather.htm