Heidi Hudson is a Professor of International Relations in the Centre for Gender and Africa Studies, a former Dean of the Faculty of the Humanities and past director of the Centre for Gender and Africa Studies. Prof Hudson, who specialises in feminist security studies with a specific focus on Africa, has obtained a B2-rating from the NRF and is an elected member of ASSAf. She serves on several editorial boards, including International Feminist Journal of Politics, Civil Wars, Revista Relaciones Internacionales, and Stichproben: Vienna Journal of African Studies. As a former Advisory Board member of the African Peacebuilding Network (APN) of the Social Science Research Council in New York, Prof Hudson regularly mentors APN fellows. She also serves as an Advisory Board member for the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA) Centre of Excellence for Post-conflict Societies, hosted by the Institute of Peace and Security Studies (IPSS) of the Addis Ababa University. During her career, she has been awarded several fellowships, among others, from the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), the Nordic Africa Institute, the University of Calgary, and Fulbright. She has published widely in international journals such as International Peacekeeping, Peacebuilding, Security Dialogue, Security Studies, Politics & Gender, and the International Feminist Journal of Politics. In 2018, she was the Claude Ake Visiting Chair, hosted by the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, and the Nordic Africa Institute. 

Books and shorter monographs

·      A (Wo)man for all Seasons: Amos Tutuola and the Gendering of Peace in Africa. Uppsala: The Nordic Africa Institute and Uppsala University, 2019 (ISBN 978-91-7106-841-5).

·      Post-conflict Reconstruction and Development in Africa: Concepts, role-players, policy and practice (co-edited with Theo Neethling, Cape Town: UCT Press /United Nations University), 2013 (ISBN 9781775820048).

·      A Feminist Reading of Security in Africa. ISS Monograph Series. February 1998, no. 20: 22-98 (ISSN 1026-0412).

Chapters in books (short list)

·      Feminist Solution: One for All, All for One: Taking Collective Responsibility for Ending War and Sustaining Peace, in MacKenzie, M. and Wegner, N. (eds). Feminist Solutions for Ending War, London: Pluto, 2021: 29-43.

·      When theory meets method: Feminist peace research in Africa and how to make     the strange familiar and the familiar strange, in Rashid, I. and Niang, A. (eds). Research Peacebuilding in Africa: Theory, Field and Context. London & New York: Routledge, 2021: 38-55.

·      Close(d) Encounters: Feminist Security Studies Engages Feminist International Political Economy and the Return to Basics, in Elias, J. and Roberts, A. (eds).  Handbook on International Political Economy of Gender Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2018: 127-141.

·      Subversion of an ordinary kind: gender, security and everyday theory in Africa, in Paul-Henri Bischoff, Kwesi Aning and Amitav Acharya (eds). Africa in Global International Relations. Emerging approaches to theory and practice. London & New York: Routledge, 2016: 43-63.

·      Untangling the Gendering of the Security-Development Nexus, in Jackson, P. (ed.) Handbook of International Security and Development. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2015: 47-63.

·      A bridge too far? The gender consequences of linking security and development in SSR discourse and practice, in Schnabel, A. & Farr, V. (eds) Back to the Roots: Security Sector Reform and Development. Münster: LIT Verlag, 2012: 77-114.

·      Peacekeeping trends and their gender implications for regional peacekeeping forces in Africa: Progress and challenges, in Mazurana, D., Raven-Roberts, A. & Parpart, J. (eds). Gender, Conflict, and Peacekeeping. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2005: 111-133.

·      Gender as a Tool for the analysis of the Human Security Discourse in Africa, in Karamé, K. & Tryggestad, T.L. (eds). Gender Perspectives on Peace and Conflict Studies. Oslo: NUPI, 2000: 79-113.

Articles in peer-reviewed journals (short list)

·      It matters how you ‘do’ gender in peacebuilding: African approaches and challenges. Insight on Africa 2021 13(2): 142-159; https://doi.org/10.1177/0975087820987154.

·      Madsen, Diana & Heidi Hudson. Temporality and the discursive dynamics of the Rwandan National Action Plans on Women, Peace and Security from 2009 and 2018. International Feminist Journal of Politics 2020 22(4): 550-571; https://doi.org/10.1080/14616742.2020.1779600.

·      Sjoberg, Laura, Heidi Hudson & Cynthia Weber. IFJP at 20: reflections from the teen years. International Feminist Journal of Politics 2018 20 (4): 496-500.

·      Larger than Life? Decolonising Human Security Studies through Feminist Posthumanism. Strategic Review for Southern Africa 2018 40(1): 46-64.

·      The Power of Mixed Messages: Women, Peace, and Security Language in National Action Plans from Africa. Africa Spectrum 2017 52(3): 3-29.

·      Decolonising Gender and Peacebuilding: Feminist Frontiers and Border Thinking in Africa. Peacebuilding 2016 4 (2): 194-209. Special Issue “Building Peace: Feminist Perspectives”, edited by Laura J. Shepherd. DOI: 10.1080/21647259.2016.1192242.

·      (Re)framing the relationship between discourse and materiality in Feminist Security Studies and Feminist IPE. Politics & Gender June 2015, 11 (2): 413-419.

·      Gendercidal Violence and the Technologies of Othering in Libya and Rwanda. Africa Insight June 2014, 44 (1): 103-120.  

·      A Double-edged Sword of Peace? Reflections on the Tension between Representation and protection in Gendering Liberal Peacebuilding. International Peacekeeping 2012, 19 (4): 443-460 (reprinted as book chapter, Routledge, see 4.2).

·      Inhabitants of interstices? Feminist analysis at the intersection of Peace Studies, Critical Security Studies and Human Security. Strategic Review for Southern Africa. XXXIII (2) November 2011: 26-50.

·      La violencia de la construcción de la paz neoliberal en África: analizando sus “trampa” a través de una lente de género / The violence of neoliberal peacebuilding in Africa: Analysing its ‘traps’ through a gender lens. Revista Relaciones Internacionales 16: February 2011.

·      Peacebuilding through a Gender Lens and the Challenges of Implementation in Rwanda and Côte d’Ivoire. Security Studies 18 (2), 2009: 287-318 (reprinted as book chapter, Routledge, see 4.2).

·      ‘Doing’ Security As Though Humans Matter: A Feminist Perspective on Gender and the Politics of Human Security. Security Dialogue June 2005, 36 (2): 155-174 (reproduced as a chapter in the four-volume set on Human Security, edited by T. Owen, Sage Publications, 2013).

·      Fractious Holism: the complex relationship between women and war. Acta Academica. Gender Supplementum: Gender, society and theory: the University of the Free State. 2002 (1): 113-146.

·      Mainstreaming Gender in Peacekeeping Operations: Can Africa learn from international experience? African Security Review. 2000, 9 (4) :18-33.