Professional Summary
Academic bio
Lilly Pace is a PhD student in Political Science, concentrating in feminist international and comparative politics. She holds a BSocSc and MA in International Relations from the University of Manchester. Lilly studies global politics using critical feminist theories and engages in a broadly poststructural mode of inquiry. Her primary research focuses on private military and security contractors and the discursive (de)constructions of militarized masculnities. Her other current research interests include blood as a bio/necropolitical substance, creative method/ologies, and knowledge production within and against international politics.
Lilly co-organizes the Taft-sponsored reading group Reimaging Global Politics with Dr. Runyan. This reading group is dedicated to reading and discussing some of the most recent cutting-edge feminist works in the fields of feminist international relations (including feminist security and global political economy studies) and transnational feminism to enliven collective thinking and feeling about global politics otherwise beyond the classroom. These readings take the group into affective and personal realms in the struggle to challenge various forms of violence in the world, as embedded in hegemonic, often disciplinary-based knowledge production. The group address the value of collective reimaginings of violence that transcends geopolitical, socioeconomic, linguistic, and epistemological borders and that challenge the neoliberal academy and broader western/northern hegemonies.
The research group Collectively Reimagining Global Politics, Reenvisioning Humanity has emerged out of this reading group. The purpose of the group is to apply exploration of collective responses to and reenvisionings of global politics and humanity – terms we analyze in their many iterations - to produce collectively authored (or otherwise created) works that disturb individualized, Eurocentric, binary, normative modes of knowledge production and ways of knowing about global politics and humanity, including the non-human or more-than-human.
Education
BSocSc: University of Manchester Manchester, England, 2021 (Politics and International Relations)
MA: University of Manchester Manchester, England, 2022 (International Relations (Research))