Women's Studies Affiliate Faculty
V. Spike PetersonPh.D., Professor, Political Science Department
V. Spike Peterson is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Arizona, with courtesy appointments in Women's Studies, the Center for LGBT Studies, Comparative Cultural and Literary Studies, Center for Latin American Studies, and International Studies. Her research interests include feminist international relations theory, global political economy, and critical poststructuralist and feminist theorizing. She regularly teaches a General Education course (INDV 101: Politics of Difference: Race/Ethnicity, Class, Gender and Sexualities), undergraduate courses in political science that are cross-listed with Women's Studies, and graduate seminars on contemporary social theory, theories of the state, and global political economy. Her most recent book, A Critical Rewriting of Global Political Economy: Integrating Reproductive, Productive and Virtual Economies (2003), introduces an alternative analytics for examining intersections of ethnicity/race, class, sex/gender and national hierarchies in the context of today's globalizing - and polarizing - dynamics. Her current research investigates informalization and 'coping, combat and criminal economies' in conflict zones.