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Miriam Anderson

Miriam Anderson

Professor
EducationPhD (Politics and International Studies): Cambridge (UK)
Phone(416) 979-5000 x 556260

Biography

Miriam J. Anderson is Professor of Global Politics at 91福利. Her research examines women鈥檚 political agency in peace negotiations, non-state actors in war and peace, and feminist approaches to peace and security. Conceptually, her work centers on how power, agency, and exclusion operate beyond formal and visible political arenas. She is the author of Windows of Opportunity: How Women Seize Peace Negotiations for Political Change (Oxford University Press, 2016) and co-editor (with David Malet) of Transnational Actors in War and Peace: Militants, Activists, and Corporations in World Politics (Georgetown University Press, 2017). Her work has appeared in leading journals, including International Studies Review, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Global Studies Quarterly, and International Negotiation. She recently co-edited the special issues Women and Peace Negotiations (with Galia Golan, International Negotiation, 2023) and Feminism in the Face of Failure: Peacebuilding in Violent and Illiberal 鈥淧ost-Conflict鈥� Settings (with Elizabeth Corredor and Julia Zulver, Global Studies Quarterly, 2025).

Dr. Anderson is a member of the international editorial board of the Women, Peace, and Security book series at De Gruyter Press; a network advisor to the Canadian Research Network for Women, Peace, and Security (based at Queen鈥檚 University); a member of the Swedish government鈥檚 Folke Bernadotte Academy international research working group, Gender-Equal Peace Processes; and a board member of the Ranked Ballot Initiative for Toronto (RaBIT). From 2018鈥�2020, she served as Undergraduate Program Director for the BA (Hons) program in Politics and Governance at 91福利, and in 2024 as Interim Director of the Arts and Contemporary Studies BA (Hons) program. She has held visiting scholar positions at the Centre for Women, Peace and Security (London School of Economics); the Institute for African Studies at the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University; the Institute of Development Policy and Management at the University of Antwerp; and the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University.

From 1999鈥�2002, Anderson worked as a human rights monitor for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Mission to the Republic of Croatia. During this period, she also monitored elections in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia for the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR). She participated in the One World Global Education program (1994鈥�1995), volunteering with grassroots development associations in El Salvador, Mexico, and Nicaragua.

Books Authored

Miriam J. Anderson (2016). Windows of Opportunity: How Women Seize Peace Negotiations for Political Change. New York: Oxford University Press.

  • Honourable mention, J. David Singer ISA Midwest Book Award, 2019
  •  Reviewed in American Review of Politics (Beardsley, 2018); Sex Roles (Waylen, 2017); Political Studies Review (Romaniuk, 2017); Perspectives on Politics (Meger, 2017); LSE Review of Books (J. Thomson, 2016)

Books Edited

David Malet and Miriam J. Anderson (eds.) (2017). Transnational Actors in War and Peace: Militants, Activists, and Corporations in World Politics. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.

  • Reviewed in CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries (Morris, 2017); H-Net Online: H-War (Pfannenstiel, 2018); H-Net Online: H-Diplo (Karabegovi膰, 2018)

Special Journal Issues Edited

  • Miriam J. Anderson, Elizabeth S. Corredor, and Julia Zulver (eds) (2025). 鈥淔eminism in the Face of Failure: Peacebuilding in Violent and Illiberal 鈥淧ost-Conflict鈥� Settings.鈥� Global Studies Quarterly 5(1).
  • Miriam J. Anderson and Galia Golan (eds.) (2023). 鈥淲omen and Peace Negotiations.鈥� International Negotiation: A Journal of Theory and Practice 28(2).

Journal Articles

  • Miriam J. Anderson, Brian Urlacher, and Liam Swiss (2026) 鈥淚nstitutionalized but Under-Implemented: Factors Affecting Women鈥檚 Inclusion in Peace Negotiations between 1975 and 2020鈥� Journal of Conflict Resolution, 70(2-3), 199-230.
  • Miriam J. Anderson and Madeline F. Eskandari (2025), 鈥淢any Things to Many People: The Diversity of Motivations for Joining Diasporic Organizations in the Global South.鈥� Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 54(5): 1127-1149.
  • Miriam J. Anderson, Elizabeth Corredor, and Julia Zulver (2025). 鈥淩ethinking Failure: Feminist Peacebuilding and the Peace Continuum in Violent and Illiberal 鈥楶ost-Conflict鈥� Settings.鈥� Global Studies Quarterly, 5(1): 1-9.
  • Miriam J. Anderson and Madeline F. Eskandari (2024), 鈥淔ake News and Gendered Public Labor: Burundian Peace Activists Combat COVID-19 Disinformation.鈥� International Studies Review, 26(4): 1-4.
  • Elizabeth S. Corredor and Miriam J. Anderson (2024). 鈥淪ecrecy, Uncertainty, and Trust: The Gendered Nature of Back-Channel Peace Negotiations.鈥� International Studies Review, 26(2): 1-19.
  • Miriam J. Anderson and Madeline F. Eskandari (2023). 鈥淔rom Peace Talks to Pandemics: The Continuum of Feminist Peace Activism.鈥� Global Studies Quarterly, 3(2): 1-12.
  • Miriam J. Anderson and Galia Golan (2023). 鈥淲omen and Peace Negotiations: Looking Forward, Looking Back.鈥� International Negotiation: A Journal of Theory and Practice, 28(2): 157-175.
  • Miriam J. Anderson Marc Y. Valade (2023). 鈥淔rom Peace Talks to Parliaments: The Microprocesses Propelling Women into Politics Following War.鈥� International Negotiation: A Journal of Theory and Practice, 28(2): 279-305.
  • Miriam J. Anderson and Jamie Gillies (2018). 鈥淭here for the Moment: Extra-Legislative Windows of Opportunity for Women鈥檚 Social Movements in Politics, A Comparison of Canada and Northern Ireland.鈥� Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, 56(1): 157-176.
  • Miriam J. Anderson and Liam Swiss (2014). 鈥淧eace Accords and the Adoption of Electoral Quotas for Women in the Developing World, 1990-2006.鈥� Politics & Gender, 10(1): 33-61.
  • Miriam J. Anderson (2011). 鈥淭he UN Principles on Housing and Property Restitution for Refugees and Displaced Persons (The Pinheiro Principles): Suggestions for Improved Applicability.鈥� Journal of Refugee Studies, 24(2): 304-322.
  • Miriam J. Anderson (2010). 鈥淭ransnational Feminism and Norms in Peace Processes: The Cases of Burundi and Northern Ireland.鈥� Journal of Intervention and State-Building, 4(1): 1-21.

Book Chapters

  • Marie Louise Baricako and Miriam J. Anderson (2025). 鈥�Feminist Activism in Exile: Mouvement Inamahoro鈥� in Kiran Stallone and Julia Zulver (Springer) (eds.) Brave Women: Fighting for Justice in the 21st Century. Palgrave MacMillan. pp. 93-107.
  • Miriam J. Anderson (2025). 鈥�Preparing for the Next Window: The Endurance of Feminist Peace Activism鈥� in Natalia Dalmer, Jutta Joachim, and Annica Kronsell eds. Gender and Security Handbook. Elgar Press. pp. 334-345.
  • Miriam J. Anderson (2017). 鈥淲omen鈥檚 Advocacy Groups in Peace Negotiations鈥� in David Malet and Miriam J. Anderson (eds.) Transnational Actors in War and Peace: Militants, Activists, and Corporations in World Politics. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press. pp. 185-196.
  • David Malet and Miriam J. Anderson (2017). 鈥淚ntroduction: The Transnational Century鈥� in David Malet and Miriam J. Anderson (eds.), Transnational Actors in War and Peace: Militants, Activists, and Corporations in World Politics. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press. pp. 1-23.
  • Miriam J. Anderson and David Malet (2017). 鈥淐onclusion: Complex Transnationalism鈥� in Malet, David and Miriam J. Anderson (eds.), Transnational Actors in War and Peace: Militants, Activists, and Corporations in World Politics. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press. pp. 215-220.
  • Miriam J. Anderson (2014). 鈥淔rom Principle to Policy: The Emergence, Implementation and Re-Articulation of the Right to Post-Conflict Property Repossession鈥� in Alexander Betts and Phil Orchard (eds) Implementation and World Politics: How International Norms Change Practice. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 195-210.
  • Miriam J. Anderson (2011). "Gender and Peacemaking: Women's Rights in Contemporary Peace Agreements" in Andrea Bartoli, Susan Allen Nan, and Zachariah Mampilly (eds), Peacemaking: From Practice to Theory, Volume I, Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger Security International. pp. 344-377.

Other:

  • Anderson, M. J. (August 19, 2022). What does it take to build up women鈥檚 rights after war? The Monkey Cage 
  • Anderson, Miriam J. and Sara Meger (2017). 鈥淐ritical Dialogue鈥� in Perspectives on Politics. Volume 15(4): 1116-1118.

Dr. Miriam Anderson researches non-state actors in international security, specializing on women鈥檚 participation in peace processes and in post-conflict. She is currently completing a project using social network analysis to determine the impact of gender-inclusive peace negotiations on women鈥檚 political influence in post-conflict politics. She teaches courses on international relations, qualitative research methods, women and international security, and women and politics.

  • MINDS Targeted Engagement Grant 2023-2024
    Principal Investigator [with Elizabeth Corredor and Julia Zulver]
  • SSHRC Connection Grant 2023-2025
    Principal Investigator [with Elizabeth Corredor and Julia Zulver]
  • Women's Social Networks and Peace Promotion, 2018-2020
    SSHRC Insight Development Grant, Principal Investigator.
  • Women's Advancement through Peace Negotiations Ending Civil Wars, 2018-2022
    SSHRC Insight Grant, Principal Investigator.
  • Sustaining Women's Gains Made in Peace Negotiations, 2014-2017
    SSHRC Insight Development Grant, Principal Investigator.
  • Transnational Actors in War and Peace, 2014-2016
    SSHRC Connection Grant, Principal Investigator [with David Malet, co-applicant]