Colleen Bell, PhD

I am an international relations scholar specializing in critical and feminist theorizations of war, security, and interventionism. I’m the author of The Freedom of Security: Governing Canada in the Age of Counterterrorism (UBC Press) and co-editor of War, Police and Assemblages of Intervention (with Jan Bachmann and Caroline Holmqvist). My recent work focuses on feminist foreign policy, the global making of Canadian police, and sexual exploitation in UN police peacekeeping.  I am the past president of the International Studies Association-Canada section and the current editor of Critical Studies on Security. I hold a BA Honours from the University of Calgary, an MA and PhD from York University, and was a SSHRC Post-doctoral Fellow at the University of Bristol and the University of Toronto. Prior to joining the University of Saskatchewan, I taught at York University, Birkbeck College, Brock University, and Trent University.