Joanne Yao
Joanne Yao joined Queen Mary in 2019. Previously, she taught at Durham University and the LSE, where she completed her PhD in 2017. In addition, she has worked in the US public sector and for international nongovernmental organizations including CARE International. Her research centers on environmental history and politics (her current empirical projects include international rivers and Antarctica), historical international relations, and the 19th century development of international organizations and global order. Joanne was also one of three editors of Millennium: Journal of International Studies for Volume 43 (2014-2015).
Her research interests are in international relations theory, global history, international institutions, critical geography, historical sociology and environmental politics. Her current work approaches environmental cooperation from a historical perspective, by analysing how and why the first international organizations were established in the 19th century to manage a contested transboundary issue—the international river. She focuses on discourses of civilization, control and rationality in the establishment of these early IOs. She is particularly interested in meaning creation as a historical process and how social meanings attached to physical geographies impact international cooperation and conflict.
In addition, Joanne is interested in research on gender and diversity in the IR curriculum, both in formal content as presented through IR syllabi and in pedagogical practices in the classroom. Published blogposts include why diversity in the curriculum is important (The Disorder of Things) and challenging the gender citation gap (International Affairs blog).
Her research interests are in international relations theory, global history, international institutions, critical geography, historical sociology and environmental politics. Her current work approaches environmental cooperation from a historical perspective, by analysing how and why the first international organizations were established in the 19th century to manage a contested transboundary issue—the international river. She focuses on discourses of civilization, control and rationality in the establishment of these early IOs. She is particularly interested in meaning creation as a historical process and how social meanings attached to physical geographies impact international cooperation and conflict.
In addition, Joanne is interested in research on gender and diversity in the IR curriculum, both in formal content as presented through IR syllabi and in pedagogical practices in the classroom. Published blogposts include why diversity in the curriculum is important (The Disorder of Things) and challenging the gender citation gap (International Affairs blog).
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