Shannon Mathieu
Teaching Fellow in International Security
Office E1.24, Social Sciences Building
Email: S.Mathieu.1@warwick.ac.uk
Advice and Feedback Hours
Meetings are available in person (in my office, E1.24) or online (via Microsoft Teams). If you would prefer to meet online, please email me to let me know in advance of the meeting and I'll call you in Teams at the scheduled time. Meetings are available at the following times:
Monday, 3:30-4:30
Friday, 2:30-3:30
Please use the online booking form to arrange meetings.
Teaching
For the 2025-26 academic year I'll be teaching:
- PO207: Politics of the USA
- PO382: Vigilant State: Understanding Secret Intelligence
- PO3A7: Gender, Race and Militarism
Administrative Roles
Deputy Director of Undergraduate Studies
Joint Undergraduate Courses Director, covering:
- Economics, Politics and International Studies (EPAIS)
- History and Politics
- Philosophy and Politics
- Politics, International Studies and Global Sustainable Development
PAIS Undergraduate Study Skills lead (Term 1)
Research Interests
My research interests include:
- International security
- Feminist IR theory
- The United Nations
- Humanitarian intervention and the Responsibility to Protect
- Discourses of protection and vulnerability in UN policy language
- Non-military masculinities in UN language and institutional culture
Publications and Conference Papers
(In progress) 鈥榁ulnerability within the gates: R2P and gendered vulnerability in UN protection narratives鈥�
(In progress) 鈥楩ailures to protect: gendered vulnerability and masculine burdens in UN interventions鈥�
鈥樷�淯ntil all the powerful are just鈥�: rational masculine protectors, the United Nations and the Responsibility to Protect鈥�, 6th Biennial Responsibility to Protect in Theory and Practice Conference, Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, May 2023
鈥楪ender, violence and power in Hedwig and the Angry Inch: teaching feminist critical analysis through unconventional texts鈥�, 15th Pan-European Conference on International Relations, European International Studies Association (EISA), Athens, September 2022
鈥楿N vulnerabilities in international interventions鈥�, Conference on the Responsibility to Protect and Gender, University of Leeds, Leeds, June 2019
鈥楪endered interventions, the Responsibility to Protect and United Nations legitimacy鈥�, 12th Pan-European Conference on International Relations, European International Studies Association (EISA), Prague, September 2018
鈥楶rotection and vulnerability in international interventions鈥�, 43rd British International Studies Association (BISA) Annual Conference, Bath, June 2018