Professor Cynthia Enloe
Professor Cynthia Enloe is to be awarded a Doctor of Letters (DLitt) on Tuesday 1 July 2025 during the afternoon ceremony.
Cynthia Enloe is a Research Professor in the Department of Sustainability and Social Justice at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, and is affiliated with Clark’s Women’s and Gender Studies and Political Science programmes.
Professor Enloe’s career has included Fulbrights in Malaysia and Guyana, and guest professorships in Japan, Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand and Iceland, as well as The Middlebrook/Djerassi Visiting Professor of Gender Studies at University of Cambridge in the UK.
She has presented lectures in Sweden, Norway, Germany, Portugal, Spain, Chile, Vietnam, Korea, Cambodia, Colombia, Bosnia, Turkey, Brazil, the Czech Republic, Austria, Finland and Ukraine, and at universities around the US.
Her writings have been translated into Ukrainian, Spanish, Turkish, French, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Swedish, Czech, Icelandic, Finnish, German and Chinese. She has published in Ms. Magazine and The Village Voice, and appeared on National Public Radio, Al Jazeera, C-Span and the BBC.
Professor Enloe’s 15 books include Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women’s Lives (2000), The Curious Feminist (2004), Nimo’s War, Emma’s War: Making Feminist Sense of the Iraq War (2010), The Real State of America: Mapping the Myths and Truths about the United States (co-authored with Joni Seager; 2011, revised 2014), and Seriously! Investigating Crashes and Crises as if Women Mattered 2013.
Professor Enloe’s thoroughly updated edition of Bananas, Beaches and Bases was published by the University of California Press in 2014 and her updated edition of Globalization and Militarism: Feminists Make the Link was published in English and French in 2016 and in Spanish in 2022, while The Big Push: Exposing and Challenging Persistent Patriarchy was published in English, Japanese and Spanish.
Her most recent book is Twelve Feminist Lessons of War.