Cynthia Weber is a Professor of International Relations at Sussex University,[1] UK, and co-Director of the media company Pato Productions.

Cynthia Weber was born in New Jersey, USA, and raised in Pennsylvania. She received a BA in Political Science from West Virginia University (1983), an MA from Sussex University (1985), and a PhD from Arizona State University (1990). She held a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Southern California (1989–1990) and has held visiting appointments at numerous universities including the New School University, the University of Arizona, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and Queen's University Belfast in Northern Ireland. Weber trained as a filmmaker in the early 2000s at the University of Leeds. She is also an affiliated scholar with the Graduate Program in International Affairs and the Observatory for Latin America at the New School University in New York City.[2]

She has published several internationally recognized books on topics ranging from US foreign policy and international relations to theory and film, including Simulating Sovereignty (Cambridge University Press, 1995),[3] Imagining America at War (Routledge, 2006)[4] and 'I am an American: Filming the Fear of Difference (Intellect Books, 2011).[5][6] Her 1999 book, Faking It: American Power in the Post-Phallic Age is widely considered a classic for its use of gender-queer theory. Her article 'Reconsidering Statehood: Examining the Sovereignty/Intervention Boundary' won the British International Studies Prize for the best article published in the journal Review of International Studies in its year.[7] Weber regularly contributes to BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour.[8][9][10][11][12]

In her 40s, Weber trained as a filmmaker. She writes, produces, directs, and edits films that critically engage with US identity, US citizenship, and US human rights practices. She is best known for her selection of 14 films called I am an American: Video Portraits of Post-9/11 US Citizens. This work has been published on OpenDemocracy.net[13] and was invited by the Board of the 11 September Memorial Museum to be part of the museum's permanent collection.

On 12 October 2017 she became a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.[14]

References

  1. ^ "Prof Cynthia Weber : Staff profiles : University of Sussex". Sussex.ac.uk. Retrieved 12 November 2011.
  2. ^ "I Am an American: Video Portraits of Unsafe U.S. Citizens | The New School | University Events". Newschool.edu. Retrieved 12 November 2011.
  3. ^ "Simulating Sovereignty – Cambridge University Press". Cambridge.org. Retrieved 12 November 2011.
  4. ^ Weber, Cynthia (20 October 2005). "Imagining America at War: Morality, Politics and Film (Paperback)". Routledge. Retrieved 12 November 2011.
  5. ^ 'I am an American': Filming the Fear of Difference, Weber. Press.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 12 November 2011.
  6. ^ "Intellect Ltd". Intellectbooks.co.uk. Archived from the original on 25 October 2011. Retrieved 12 November 2011.
  7. ^ "Past BISA award winners". Bisa.ac.uk. 18 July 1992. Archived from the original on 27 September 2011. Retrieved 12 November 2011.
  8. ^ "Radio 4 Programmes – Woman's Hour, Michele Bachmann, Avery Sunshine, talking about death". BBC. 28 June 2011. Retrieved 12 November 2011.
  9. ^ "Radio 4 Programmes – Woman's Hour, 03/11/2010". BBC. 3 November 2010. Retrieved 12 November 2011.
  10. ^ "Radio 4 Woman's Hour -Women in the US Supreme Court". BBC. Retrieved 12 November 2011.
  11. ^ "Radio 4 Woman's Hour". BBC. Retrieved 12 November 2011.
  12. ^ "Radio 4 Woman's Hour -Hilary [sic] Clinton as Secretary of State". BBC. Retrieved 12 November 2011.
  13. ^ [1][dead link]
  14. ^ "Sixty-nine leading social scientists conferred as Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences |". acss.org.uk. Archived from the original on 16 December 2019. Retrieved 15 February 2020.
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