Marsha Henry

Marsha Henry is a prominent academic who currently holds the Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton Chair in Women, Peace, Security and Justice at Queen's University Belfast, following her tenure as Associate Professor at the London School of Economics' Department of Gender Studies. Her academic journey began at the University of British Columbia where she studied English Literature, followed by a Master's in Gender and International Development and a PhD in Women and Gender from the University of Warwick in 2001. Throughout her career, she has held positions at multiple institutions including the Universities of Bristol, British Columbia, Open University, and Warwick before joining LSE in 2009. As a founding member of LSE's Centre for Women, Peace and Security, she served as Deputy Director (2015-2018) and Interim Director (2018-19). Her groundbreaking research spans gender and development, militarization, and peacekeeping, with particular focus on documenting social experiences in peacekeeping missions over the past 15 years. Her latest work, "The End of Peacekeeping," employs feminist, postcolonial, and anti-militarist frameworks to critically examine peacekeeping operations, drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in missions worldwide. Her expertise has led to advisory roles with various organizations including the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeper Training Centre, Foreign Affairs Canada, and the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office