Professor Patricia Owens

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Professor Patricia Owens

Associate Head of Division (People)


Patricia is Professor of International Relations, DPIR and Tutorial Fellow, Somerville College. Her research interests are in the broad field of international relations, including twentieth-century international history and theory, historical and contemporary practices of Anglo-American counterinsurgency and intervention, and disciplinary history and the history of international and political thought. She was Principal Investigator of the multi-award winning Leverhulme Research Project on Women and the History of International Thought from 2018-23. Patricia’s responsibilities include strategic leadership for all aspects of the Social Science Division "people" provision.