V Spike Peterson is Professor of International Relations at the University of Arizona. She has held visiting positions at a range of Universities, including the University of Manchester, Bristol, Durham, London School of Economics, Goteborg and the Australian National University. She received separately the LGBTQA (2018) and Feminist Theory and Gender Studies (2004) Eminent Scholar awards from the International Studies Association and the Charles A. McCoy Lifetime Achievement award from the American Political Science Association (2016). Her work on Gendered States, Gender, Sexuality, Race and Family in international relations and on Reproductive, Productive and Virtual Economies are all seminal contributions to the development of International Political Economy as a discipline.
