Sex Ratios, Brideprice, Polygyny: The Link to Conflict and Instability
Valerie M. Hudson is professor and holds the George H.W. Bush Chair in the department of international affairs at The Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University, where she directs the Program on Women, Peace, and Security. Her research includes foreign policy analysis, security studies, gender and international relations, and methodology. Hudson is one of the principal investigators of The WomanStats Project which includes the largest compilation of data on the status of women in the world today. Winner of numerous teaching awards and recipient of a National Science Foundation research grant and a Minerva Initiative grant, she was recently named a Distinguished Scholar of Foreign Policy Analysis by the International Studies Association. She is the author/co-author of “Sex and World Peace,” “The Hillary Doctrine,” Foreign Policy Analysis,” “Bare Branches,” and (forthcoming) “The First Political Order: Sex, Governance, and National Security.”
Professor Hudson is the 2020 Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar and her Athenaeum presentation is co-sponsored by the Phi Beta Kappa Society and the Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies at CMC. Her lecture is also part of the Women in Security series at the Athenaeum this spring.