Welcome!

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of International Affairs at the Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University. I have a PhD from the Department of Political Science, Rutgers University-New Brunswick. My primary research interests include conflict-related sexual violence, justice process, and legacies of military operations utilizing quantitative methods. My work is forthcoming/published at Journal of Conflict Resolution, Security Studies, International Interactions and The Diplomat.

I am currently working on a book manuscript, Domestic Accountability for Conflict-Related Sexual Violence. I examine how governments strategically use accountability for conflict-related sexual violence to signal its moral image and authority to both domestic and international audiences. I explore how governments decide upon different accountability mechanisms for conflict-related sexual violence: legislative and/or judicial accountability. Collecting an original dataset on domestic accountability for wartime sexual violence, I analyze how accountability is deployed selectively and strategically both in time and space in conflict-affected countries. My dissertation work has received the American Political Science Association (APSA) Human Rights Section Best Dissertation Award 2023.

I am also a Gender and Security Sector (GSS) Lab Affiliate, a co-PI for the WomanStats Project, and a United States Institute of Peace (USIP) Peace Scholar Fellow (2021-2022). I am also Texas A&M University Arts and Humanities Fellow 2023-2026. I have also received the Empirical Study of Gender Research Network (EGEN) Prize 2022.

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You can email me: suminlee at tamu dot edu.