09.09.2024 The Collaborative Research Center "Dynamics of Security" welcomes visiting fellow Shampa Biswas

The CRC “Dynamics of Security” welcomes Prof. Dr. Shampa Biswas as a Visiting Fellow from early September to December 2024.

Dr. Shampa Biswas is Judge & Mrs. Timothy A. Paul Chair of Political Science and Professor of Politics at Whitman College in Walla Walla, WA. She teaches courses on international relations, global security, postcolonial theory, and international feminisms. Her current research explores the intersections of race and colonialism with nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament. She is the author of Nuclear Desire: Power and the Postcolonial Nuclear Order (University of Minnesota Press) and numerous articles and opinion pieces on nuclear colonialism, race in international relations, nationalism, globalization, and nuclear disarmament, as well as higher education. She is the recent recipient of two Ploughshares Fund grants to decolonize the nuclear studies curriculum. During her fellowship at the CRC 138, Dr. Biswas will be working on a project on nuclear memorialization.