UMass Boston

Gender and Development as well as : masculinity, Gender, Conflict and (In)Security; Silence, Voice and Agency in Contested Gendered Sites.

PhD, Boston University

• Parpart, J. L., & Zalewski, M. (Eds.). (2008). Rethinking the Man Question: Sex, Gender and Violence in International Relations. ZED Books.
• Parpart. J.L. (2013). Exploring the Transformative Potential of Gender Mainstreaming in International Development Institutions. Journal of International Development, 26: 382-396.
• Parpart, J.L. (2015). Militarized Masculinities, Heroes, and Gender Inequality during and after the nationalist struggle in Zimbabwe. International Journal for Masculinity Studies, 10(3-4): 312-325.
• Parpart, J. L. (2016). Imagined peace, gender relations and post-conflict transformation: Anti-colonial and post–Cold War conflicts. In Women, Gender Equality, and Post-Conflict Transformation (1st ed.). Routledge.
• Parashar, S., & Parpart, J. L. (Eds.). (2020). Rethinking Silence, Voice and Agency in Contested Gendered Terrains. Routledge.

Curriculum Vitae

Jane Parpart joined the faculty of the Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security, and Global Governance in fall 2012. She is now a fellow in the department and continues to be on PhD committees as supervisor or member. She is a professor Emeritus and the former Lester Pearson Chair in International Development Studies at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada, as well as Adjunct Professor at Carleton University and the University of Ottawa in Ottawa, Canada. Parpart has taught in Gender Studies at the University of West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago, as well as the London School of Economics and Politics’ Gender Studies department and Aalborg University’s program in International Development and Gender Studies in Denmark. She has written extensively on gender and deveopment; gender mainstreaming and empowerment; masculinities and (in) security; silence, voice and agency in gendered insecure sites; and urban life in Southern Africa.