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, 13:20–14:20 (In person, Office E1.24)

Thursday, 14:30–15:30 (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) ‘Vulnerability within the gates: R2P and gendered vulnerability in UN protection narratives’

(In progress) ‘Failures to protect: gendered vulnerability and masculine burdens in UN interventions’

‘“Until all the powerful are just”: rational masculine protectors, the United Nations and the Responsibility to Protect’, 6th Biennial Responsibility to Protect in Theory and Practice Conference, Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, May 2023

‘Gender, violence and power in Hedwig and the Angry Inch: teaching feminist critical analysis through unconventional texts’, 15th Pan-European Conference on International Relations, European International Studies Association (EISA), Athens, September 2022

‘UN vulnerabilities in international interventions’, Conference on the Responsibility to Protect and Gender, University of Leeds, Leeds, June 2019

‘Gendered interventions, the Responsibility to Protect and United Nations legitimacy’, 12th Pan-European Conference on International Relations, European International Studies Association (EISA), Prague, September 2018

‘Protection and vulnerability in international interventions’, 43rd British International Studies Association (BISA) Annual Conference, Bath, June 2018