Dr Marsha Henry

Professor Marsha Henry is the Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton Chair in Women, Peace, Security and Justice at Queen's Unviersity Belfast.

Dr Henry was formally an Associate Professor at the Department of Gender Studies at LSE. She joined LSE in July 2009, having previously taught at Universities of Bristol, University of British Columbia, Canada, as well as the Open University and Warwick University. She read English Literature at the University of British Columbia, Canada, before studying for a Master's in Gender and International Development at the University of Warwick. She continued her postgraduate studies at Warwick obtaining a PhD in Women and Gender in 2001. She carried out postdoctoral research in the Centre for Women's Studies and Gender Relations at the University of British Columbia, before returning to the UK in order to take up a position at the University of Bristol in 2002. Before taking up her post at LSE, she was a lecturer in the School for Policy Studies (2002-2006) and the Politics Department at the University of Bristol (2006-2009).

Dr Henry's research interests focus on gender and development, gender and militarisation, and qualitative methodologies. Over the past 12 years, her research interests have been concentrated on documenting the social experiences of living and working in peacekeeping missions. Her recent research focusses on peacekeepers from the Global South.

Her research interests focus on three main research areas: gender and development; gender, security and militarisation; and qualitative methodologies. Her doctoral research focused on reproductive decision-making amongst middle-class women in India and her postdoctoral research was concerned with immigration medical exams in Canada. Over the past 10 years, her research interests have been concentrated on documenting the social experiences of living and working in peacekeeping missions. Her recent research focuses on peacekeepers from the Global South.
Over a number of years she has been thinking and writing about the fieldwork challenges faced by the 'unconventional' researcher.

Recent Projects

• Gender, Peacekeeping and Justice in Postconflict Contexts (GI RIIF)
• Engendering Peacekeeping: The Experiences of Indian Women Peacekeepers, STICERD-LSE
• Peacekeeping, Poverty, and Development: Towards an Understanding of the Gendered Peacekeeping Economies in the DRC, Sudan, and Liberia, Norwegian Research Council