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Jenny Mathers received her undergraduate degree from Mount Holyoke College in the United States and her MPhil and DPhil from Oxford University. She joined the Department in 1992 while completing her DPhil thesis on Soviet ballistic missile defence policy from Stalin to Gorbachev. Her teaching and research spans two broad areas: Russian politics and security and gender and war.
Teaching
PhD Supervision
Russian politics
Russian security
Civil-military relations
Women and war
Gender and security
Research interests
Jenny Mathers is currently working on several related projects that focus on different aspects of the ongoing crisis in Ukraine, including a book that examines the crisis from the perspective of feminist security studies. She is also the co-editor (with Veronica Kitchen) and a contributor to Heroism and Global Politics (Routledge, 2018).
Responsibilities
During the 2022-23 academic year, Jenny is the Department's social media officer and a member of the admissions team.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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Ginger Cats and Cute Puppies: Animals, Affect, and Militarisation in the Crisis in Ukraine
Mathers, J., 31 Mar 2020, Making War on Bodies: Militarisation, Aesthetics and Embodiment in International Politics. Baker, C. (ed.). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, p. 148-169 22 p. (Advances in Critical Military Studies).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Women, War and Austerity: IFIs and the construction of gendered economic insecurities in Ukraine
Mathers, J., 15 Dec 2020, In: Review of International Political Economy. 27, 6, p. 1235-1256 22 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Medals and American heroic military masculinity after 9/11
Mathers, J., 07 Nov 2018, Heroism and Global Politics. Kitchen, V. & Mathers, J. (eds.). Abingdon: Taylor & Francis, p. 36-59 23 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Even the Toys are Demanding Free Elections: Humour and the Politics of Creative Protest in Russia
Mathers, J., 13 Jul 2017, Cultural Forms of Protest in Russia. Beumers, B., Etkind, A., Gurova, O. & Turema, S. (eds.). 1 ed. Taylor & Francis, p. 105-119 15 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
2 Citations (SciVal) -
Nuclear Weapons in Russian Foreign Policy: Patterns in Presidential Discourse 2000–2010
Mathers, J., 02 Apr 2012, In: Europe-Asia Studies. 64, 3, p. 495-519 25 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The Red Rockets' Glare: Spaceflight and the Soviet Imagination, 1857-1957
Mathers, J., Feb 2012, Space Policy, 28, 1, p. 64-65 2 p.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Book/Film/Article review
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Women and State Military Forces
Mathers, J. G., Oct 2012, Women and War: Contested Histories, Uncertain Futures. Cohn, C. (ed.). Cambridge: Polity, p. 124-145 22 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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The Military, Security and Politics
Mathers, J. G., 31 Dec 2010, Developments in Russian Politics 7. White, S., Sakwa, R. & Hale, H. E. (eds.). Basingstoke: Springer Nature, p. 245-262 18 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Russia's Women Soldiers in the Twenty-First Century
Mathers, J. G., 2007, The Minerva Journal of Women and War, Spring, p. 8-18 11 p.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
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Military and Society in Post-soviet Russia
Webber, S. (ed.) & Mathers, J., 12 Jan 2006, Manchester: Manchester University Press. 296 p.Research output: Book/Report › Edited book
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Women, society and the military: Women soldiers in post-Soviet Russia
Mathers, J. G., 12 Jan 2006, Military and Society in Post-soviet Russia. Webber, S. & Mathers, J. G. (eds.). Manchester: Manchester University Press, p. 207-227 21 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Projects
- 1 Finished
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Visiting PHD Luiza Korobitcyna- Jenny Mathers
Ural State Pedagogical University USPU
26 Sept 2016 → 25 Jan 2017
Project: Externally funded research
Press/Media
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Ukraine war: what the last 12 months has meant for the ordinary Russian soldier
16 Feb 2023
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Media contribution
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Ukraine war: attitudes to women in the military are changing as thousands serve on front lines
31 Jan 2023
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Media contribution
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Ukraine war: why Russian soldiers' mothers aren't demonstrating the strong opposition they have in previous conflicts
06 Jan 2023
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Media coverage
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Ukraine war: Belarus is not yet committed to a closer military partnership with Russia – here’s why
19 Oct 2022
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Media contribution
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Gorbachev and glasnost: how his fragile legacy of free speech has been destroyed by Putin
01 Sept 2022
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Media contribution
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Ukraine President says war must end with Crimea liberation
10 Aug 2022
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Media contribution
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Russia: programme of ‘patriotic education’ aims to create next generation of Putin faithful
Jenny Mathers & Allyson Edwards
21 Apr 2022
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Media contribution
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Ukraine war: families of unhappy Russian conscripts could undermine Kremlin’s war effort
04 Mar 2022
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Media contribution
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Belarus: Lukashenko threatens to turn off the gas to western Europe as migrant crisis deepens
12 Nov 2021
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Media contribution
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Women have served in armed forces for decades, but the military is still a man’s world
28 Jul 2021
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Media contribution
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Roman Protasevich: dissident Belarus journalist whose defiance enraged Europe's last dictator
25 May 2021
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Media contribution
Activities
- 2 Editorial activity
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Europe-Asia Studies (Journal)
Jenny Mathers (Editorial board member)
2008 → 2019Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial activity
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The Minerva Journal of Women and War (Journal)
Jenny Mathers (Editor)
2008 → 2009Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial activity