Patricia Owens

@whitproject.bsky.social

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History, IR, Oxford, Somerville College, and Brighton. 🇮🇪 🌈 Mum of two #AWFC She/her. Author of Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men (Princeton, 2025)

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Patricia Owens is a British-Irish academic, author and professor. She is a Tutorial Fellow at Somerville College, Oxford and a professor of International Relations at University of Oxford. She is best known for her work on the history and theory of counterinsurgency warfare, women and the history of international thought, the history of social and political thought, and for her earlier work on war and international relations in the thought of the German-American political theorist Hannah Arendt. .. more

Political science 53%

Sociology 14%

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Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social · Dec 17

After almost a decade of thinking, researching and writing... this came in the post today. 🤓 🥂

Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social · 9d

Thank you, Elspeth. I love Anna Funder's outstanding book. I'm done with all veneration of serial sex-pest and eraser of women "George Orwell"

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Infinite Women @infinite-women.com · 10d

This week on the podcast, @whitproject.bsky.social, Professor of International Relations at Oxford, tells us about the women of her new book, Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men.
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Dr Patricia Owens on the erased women of international thought by Infinite Women

Patricia Owens, Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford and author of the new book, Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men, tells us about the women erased fro...

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 18d

Edina Paleviq's MUST READ: Patrica Owen's Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men. It debunks the familiar portrayal of male thinkers in IR as only a partial story reflecting a structural distortion in how the discipline remembers its past.

globaleuropejournal.org/2025/10/octo...

Reposted by Jocalyn Clark, Patricia Owens, Leonhard Dobusch

David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 22d

Watch his victory speech for how it gives zero time to the nonsense binary of "idpol" vs "class politics". The stars of that speech are the *multi-ethnic* working class. It's a speech grounded in the rich complexity of material reality, not two dimensional caricatures and facile abstractions.

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Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social · 23d

Applications are now open for the Ann Ball Bodley Visiting Fellowship in Women’s History at @bodleian.ox.ac.uk offering scholars the opportunity to advance research in women’s history.

Find full details: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...

#WomensHistory #ResearchFellowship #BodleianLibraries

Bodleian Visiting Fellowships in Special Collections

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Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social · 26d

Thank you! She did, and brilliantly. I'm so grateful....

Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social · 26d

Is anyone else having problems submitting papers/panels for @mybisa.bsky.social on the "Indico" platform??!?
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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 28d

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social · Oct 24

"They also raise concerns about the depth of analyses and increased specialization at the expense of broader synthesis".

Lala Muradova @lalamur.bsky.social · Oct 24

Analysis of references between 1990 to 2024 shows that there is a decline in book referencing (52% to 28%) in polsci journals 😮

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From Bookworm to Browser: The Decline of Books in Political Science Scholarship | PS: Political Science & Politics | Cambridge Core

From Bookworm to Browser: The Decline of Books in Political Science Scholarship

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Lala Muradova @lalamur.bsky.social · Oct 24

Analysis of references between 1990 to 2024 shows that there is a decline in book referencing (52% to 28%) in polsci journals 😮

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

From Bookworm to Browser: The Decline of Books in Political Science Scholarship | PS: Political Science & Politics | Cambridge Core

From Bookworm to Browser: The Decline of Books in Political Science Scholarship

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Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social · Oct 22

John Ikenberry reviews Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men.
www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/eras...

Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men

Patricia Owens provides a deeply researched and engrossing feminist history of international relations as a discipline in the United Kingdom in the twentieth century.

www.foreignaffairs.com

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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · Oct 20

1/8 An overview of a recent print issue, a forum on "Women’s International Thought: Towards a New Canon" (@universitypress.cambridge.org, 2022) eds. @whitproject.bsky.social, Katharina Rietzler, Kimberley Hutchings, & @sarahcdunstan.bsky.social - the forum was guest ed by @rosariolopez.bsky.social

A black and white photo of a woman (Merze Tate) on a bike outside the Radcliffe Camera on Oxford

Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social · Oct 16

Congratulations, Charlotte. It's a great book (I am half-way through). 🥂

Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social · Oct 16

"many academics from prestigious universities".

RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES

Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · Oct 16

I'm not a keen follower of the Epstein case. Maybe this is something everyone knows.

But I'm shocked and revolted by the male academics who one after another raped trafficked children. My god I hope you are all found and punished.

Solidarity with the survivors.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Snippet from the linked Guardian article beginning "The second person I was lent out to was a psychology professor"

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · Oct 16

Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social · Oct 15

OMG, so do I!?!?

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · Oct 13

On this date, Matthew Shephard died 27 years ago. He was beaten, tortured, and left for dead on fence for being gay. Please keep him and his wonderful mother Judy in your thoughts. And let's all work for a world where such horrific things do not happen to anyone. ❤️🏳️‍🌈

Reposted by James Q. Wilson, Robert W. Wallace, Patricia Owens , and 3 more James Q. Wilson, Robert W. Wallace, Patricia Owens, Alan Richardson, Sven Nyholm, Elisa Freschi

Kate Kirkpatrick @philosofemme.bsky.social · Oct 3

JOB: Associate Professor or Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy, in association with a Tutorial Fellowship at Merton College. AoS Ethics and/or Political Philosophy, with at least an AoC in Feminist Philosophy.
#PhilJobs
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Associate Professorship or Professorship of Philosophy - Philosophy APTFC at University of Oxford

Explore an exciting academic career as a Associate Professorship or Professorship of Philosophy - Philosophy APTFC. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities...

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Jan Eijking @janeijking.com · Oct 3

Another excellent piece by Geertje Bol @whpt.bsky.social 👇 www.the-tls.com/philosophy/c...

The erasure of women philosophers

Eileen O’Neill’s foundational article “Disappearing Ink: Early modern women philosophers and their fate in history” (1998) was revelatory for me as a

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Roots and Branches I The Podcast @rbpodcast.bsky.social · Oct 3

🔊 Episode #3 out now!
@whitproject.bsky.social (@politicsoxford.bsky.social) explores how the gender binary shaped the production and reception of international thought and what recovering overlooked voices means for present-day international relations.
open.spotify.com/episode/76f2...

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · Oct 1

All monthly donations started today will be TRIPLED, which means your initial $15 gift is worth $45. If you believe freedom of speech is essential to the functioning of a democratic society, please become a monthly sustainer today.

Please donate today! Your support is vital to sustain and grow Democracy Now!

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · Oct 1

'Oxford’s chief diversity officer has said that universities must not forget their legal obligations relating to equality, diversity and inclusion if there are changes to the research culture element of the 2029 Research Excellence Framework.'

Yes. More people need to say this repeatedly out loud.

Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · Sep 30

Universities ‘must not forget EDI obligations’ amid REF 2029 pause.

University of Oxford’s chief diversity officer says most Britons “believe EDI is a good thing”. #Lab25

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

Universities ‘must not forget EDI obligations’ amid REF pause - Research Professional News

Labour 2025: Oxford’s chief diversity officer says most Britons “believe EDI is a good thing”

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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · Sep 30

Universities ‘must not forget EDI obligations’ amid REF pause - Research Professional News

Labour 2025: Oxford’s chief diversity officer says most Britons “believe EDI is a good thing”

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Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social · Sep 30

Re-upping the link to an online book talk tomorrow at 3pm hosted by SPIN.👇 Please email [email protected] for an invite link.

Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social · Sep 29

She would warn that, as in ancient Rome and interwar Europe, economic elites mistook material abundance for stability, blind to the fact that their own complacency hastened the collapse they thought could not touch them".

Thanks to DC historian @rcturk.bsky.social for letting me know it was out!

Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social · Sep 29

is hollowing out the very institutions meant to safeguard democratic government and diplomatic norms (as fragile and compromised as they always were).

Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social · Sep 29

"If we extended Eileen Power’s critique of pre–World War II Europe to the contemporary scene in D.C., she might view Washington’s diplomatic world as a decadent spectacle. Lavish receptions and constant talk obscure how authoritarian rollback under Trump...

Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social · Sep 29

I'm told "Washington Life" is DC's premiere lifestyle magazine. They did a feature on Erased in their "Diplomatic Issue". Surprising, but okay...

They edited out some stuff from the original Q&A...

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · Sep 27

“I’m emotionally shellshocked right now,” said one professor in the Texas Tech system. “What does it say about academic freedom? It says we don’t have it.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

Texas Tech Moves to Limit Academic Discussion to 2 Genders

www.nytimes.com

Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social · Sep 25

Oxford Political Thought Speaker Series 👇

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