Katharine Millar is an Associate Professor of International Relations in the Department of International Relations at the London School of Economics. Her research interests lie in examining the gendered cultural narratives underlying political violence and the modern collective use of force. Her on-going research examines gender, race, sexuality and the transnational politics of death in the context of Covid-19; and gender, technology, and cybersecurity. Dr Millar has also published on female combatants, gendered representations of violent death, military and civilian masculinity, and critical conceptions of militarism. Dr Millar's award-winning first book, Support the Troops: Military Obligation, Gender, and the Making of Political Community, was published in 2022 by Oxford University Press. Dr Millar is an Editor at the journal Security Dialogue and an associated researcher with the Centre for Women, Peace and Security at the London School of Economics. She has participated in consultation processes regarding the UN's Women, Peace, and Security Agenda and gender and cybersecurity for various state governments, armed forces international organisations and international non-governmental organisations.

Network Goals

Integrating new research on gender, technology, and cybersecurity into Women, Peace, and Security policy and practice, in Canada and internationally
Connecting a network of transnational researchers in academic and civil society working on intersectional gender equality, technology, and security
Supporting students, early career researchers, and precariously-employed colleagues as they generate vital knowledge and grow their careers

Publications

Millar, Katharine M., and James Shires. "Masculinist actionism: gender and strategic change in US cyber strategy." Security Studies (2024): 1-32.
Millar, Katharine M. Support the troops: military obligation, gender, and the making of political community. Oxford University Press, 2022.
Millar, Katharine M. "What do we do now? Examining civilian masculinity/ies in contemporary liberal civil-military relations." Review of International Studies 45, no. 2 (2019): 239-259.
Han, Yuna, Katharine M. Millar, and Martin J. Bayly. "COVID-19 as a mass death event." Ethics & International Affairs 35, no. 1 (2021): 5-17.
Millar, Katharine M., and Joanna Tidy. "Combat as a moving target: Masculinities, the heroic soldier myth, and normative martial violence." Critical Military Studies 3, no. 2 (2017): 142-160.