Episode 62: Megan MacKenzie

Dr. Megan MacKenzie is a feminist scholar interested in war, security studies, post-conflict recovery and reconstruction, and military culture. Her work is broadly focused on the ways that gender matters in understanding war and insecurity and the ways that experiences of war and insecurity are shaped by gendered norms and sexism. Megan has been studying military culture and gender integration in the military for over a decade, which includes projects on military sexual violence, the integration of women into combat roles, and military suicide. She also has worked on issues related to post-conflict transitions and feminist solutions to ending war. This work includes projects on disarmament programs, amnesty provisions in peace agreements, truth and reconciliation commissions, and a series and edited book on feminist solutions to ending war. She is the author of Beyond the Band of Brothers: the US military and the myth that women can’t fight (Cambridge University Press 2015) and co-editor, with Nicole Wegner of Feminist Solutions for Ending War (Pluto Press 2021).