CISAC
Stanford University
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Stanford, CA 94305-6165

helenk1@stanford.edu
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Helen Kinsella was a 2004-2005 postdoctoral fellow at CISAC. She completed her dissertation in spring of 2004 in the Department of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. Her dissertation, entitled the "The Image Before the Weapon: A Geneology of the 'Civilian' in international Law and Politics," traces the emergence and codification of the distinction between civilian and combatant, now known as the principle of discrimination, from the medieval chivalric codes to the positive law of the 20th century. Her dissertation won the American Political Science Association's Helen Dwight Reid Award for the best dissertation in the field of international relations, law and politics. She is also a scholar of the Center for Advanced Feminist Studies and the MacArthur Program on Interdisciplinary Change and Cooperation at the University of Minnesota. Before entering the doctoral program at Minnesota, she completed a masters degree in public policy from the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs.

Kinsella will begin a tenure track position in international relations in the Department of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 2005.