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 on Mondays (in my office, E1.24) or online on Thursdays (via Microsoft Teams). If you book a Thursday online meeting, please sign in to Teams and I'll call you using the Teams call feature at the scheduled time.
Meetings are available at the following times:
Monday, 13:20鈥�14:20 (In person, Office E1.24)
Thursday, 14:30鈥�15:30 (Online only, Teams)
Please use the online booking form to arrange meetings.
Teaching
For the 2026-27 academic year I'll be teaching:
- PO207: Politics of the USA
- 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
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