Dr. Sabrina Karim is an associate professor in Government at Cornell University. She directs the Gender and Security Sector Lab funded by Global Affairs Canada and is the PI of the NSF CAREER award “The Domestic and International Politics of Global Police.”
Her research focuses on conflict and peace processes, particularly state building in the aftermath of civil war. Specifically, she studies international involvement in security assistance to post-conflict states, gender reforms in peacekeeping and domestic security sectors, and the relationship between gender and violence.
She is the co-author of Equal Opportunity Peacekeeping: Women, Peace, and Security in Post-Conflict Countries (Oxford University Press, 2017). The book was the winner of the Conflict Research Studies Best Book Prize for 2017 and the American Political Science Association Conflict Processes Best Book Award for 2018. She is also co-author of the book Positioning Women in Conflict Studies: How Women’s Status Affects Political Violence (Oxford University Press, 2024). Her work has appeared in the American Political Science Review, International Organization, the British Journal of Political Science, The Journal of Peace Research, International Interactions, World Development, among others.
Born and raised in Colorado, Sabrina received her PhD from Emory University in 2016. Prior to her doctorate degree, she received a Fulbright Fellowship and received her master’s degree as a Clarendon Scholar from Oxford University. She has an undergraduate degree from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.
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Email: smk349[at]cornell[dot]edu
Address: 214 White Hall, Ithaca, New York 14853
Twitter: @sabrinamkarim
A Liberian National Police officer looks on as Liberians work collectively to solve problems (Liberia, 2014)