Email: katerina.krulisova@mup.cz
Katerina is a senior lecturer at the Security and Technology of Communication Departement, teaching also at International Relations and European Studies departments (in both Czech and English versions) at MUP. Katerina’s main research interests are Gender in Security Studies, and R2P and Sexual(ised) Violence in Conflicts. She is completing her PhD candidacy at Nottingham Trent University, UK, in 2017, focusing on Female Protagonist of Sexual(ised) Violence in Rwanda and the Former Yugoslavia from a post-structural perspective. In the past, Katerina has been invited to Brown University for a research gathering at BIARI Programme on Ethnicity, Conflict, and Inequality in Global Perspective, funded by Santander Universities. She has published on the topics of female self-martyrs in Chechnya, and sexual(ised) violence in armed conflicts. The latest publications include The “Black Widow” Media Discourse: “Desperation, Irrationality and Vendetta” in Dagestan published in CEJISS, e-chapter on Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict: A Weapon of War? published at interdisciplinary.net and a number of review articles. In research collaboration with Sarka Kolmasova, the article on R2P and Sexual(ised) Violence Discourses and Legitimisations is forthcoming. At the moment, Katerina is working on her monograph on Female Protagonist of Political Violence and International Legal and Media Discourses, and further develops her R2P analysis together with her colleagues.