Degrees:
Ph.D., Northwestern Univ.
M.A., Univ. of Chicago
B.A., North Central College
Sidra Hamidi’s research and teaching interests are in international law, global governance, and nuclear politics. She was previously a Stanton Nuclear Security Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University and previously taught at Eckerd College and Stetson University in Florida. Her book, After Fission: Recognition and Contestation in the Atomic Age, is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press and explores the politics of recognition in the nuclear programs of Israel, India, and Iran. Her classes focus on key ethical, legal, and governance challenges in world politics and analyze enduring questions—What are the origins of the modern international system? Why do states go to war? Does international law constrain state behavior? —among many others. Her courses also explore specific themes such as the interactions between technological change and political institutions with a specific focus on the physical, political, and normative changes brought on by the introduction of nuclear technology. Her pedagogy is focused on teaching students how to think, not what to think. |
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International Law
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International Security
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Nuclear Politics
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International Law
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International Security
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Nuclear Politics
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Global Governance
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Science and Technology Studies
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Nuclear Technology
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Publications:
- “Constructing Nuclear Responsibility in US-India Relations,” (2022), International Affairs, 98 (2): 707-725.
- “Who Recognizes? U.S. Nuclear Diplomacy and the Conferral of Legitimacy,” (2022), in US Leadership in a World of Uncertainties, Michael Stricof and Isabelle Vagnoux (eds.), Palgrave Macmillan.
- “Constructing Nuclear Responsibility in US-India Relations,” (2022), International Affairs, 98 (2): 707-725.
- “A Tale of Two Fuel Cycles: Defining Enrichment and Reprocessing in the
Nonproliferation Regime,” (2021) co-authored with Chantell Murphy, The Nonproliferation Review, 28 (4-6): 361-385.
- “Law as Discursive Resource: The Nuclear/Non-Nuclear Distinction in the Non-Proliferation Treaty,” (2020), European Journal of International Relations, 26 (2): 545-568.
Presentations:
- Roundtable on “The Promise and Peril of AI,” International Studies Association, Northeast Conference (November 2023)
- “Guilt, Political Responsibility, and the War in Ukraine,” International Studies Association, South Conference (October 2023)
- “Navigating Nuclear Dualism: The History of Civilian and Military Distinctions,” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting (August 2023)
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- Doreen and Jim McElvany Nonproliferation Award in exceptional scholarly research, innovative ideas, and policy proposals published in the Nonproliferation Review, 2024.
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