Dr. Ann Towns
Assistant Professor
Political Science and International Relations
467 Smith Hall
Phone: (302) 831-2367
anntowns@udel.edu
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Ann Towns, PhD (University of Minnesota 2004) joined the Department in 2007. She specializes in international relations and gender in global governance. Professor Towns teaches courses in international relations, such as international organization and global governance. Current research interests include international norms and their link to social rank among states; global norms on women and politics; and the status of women as a standard of rank among states.
Recent Publications:
2010. Women and States: Norms and Hierarchies in International Society. Cambridge University Press.
2009. “The Status of Women as a Standard of ‘Civilization.’European Journal of International Relations 15(4)1-25.
2008. “Inevitable Inequalities? Approaching Gender Equality and Multiculturalism” in Moral Limit and Possibility in World Politics, Richard Price, ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2007. “The Status of Women and the Ordering of Human Societies Along the Stages of Civilization,” in Civilizational Identity: The Production and Reproduction of “Civilizations” in International Relations, Martin Hall and Patrick T. Jackson, eds. New York: Palgrave MacMillan.
