Katherine Brown: Women and Terrorism - a podcast by John F. Morrison

Dr Katherine E Brown is a lecturer in Islamic Studies at University of Birmingham, specialising in gender, jihad and counter-terrorism. Her research examines Muslim women's involvement in political violence, the role of gender in jihadist ideology, and the gendered impact of counter-terrorism policies and practices worldwide. This work engages directly with public debates on security, religion, and women's rights. She has published widely and is currently working on a monograph on anti-radicalization policies and gender. She is the Series Editor for the newly launched Routledge Focus Monograph Series: “Islam in Europe”. She is a member of the Muslim in Britain's Research Network and the UK Higher Education Academy's Islamic Studies Network. She is a lead academic board member of the European Union Radicalisation Awareness Network, run for practitioners in this field. Her expertise has also been sought by a number of academic, policy, government, and media outlets, in the UK, USA, Canada, Australia, Norway, and Austria. Including, for example, the 9/11 Memorial, the UN, and the European Parliament. In 2017 – 2018 she is consulting for UN Women on gender mainstreaming in countering violent extremism programmes. Recently she has given expert advice and testimony in the UK in a number of cases involving radicalisation.

Research that has influenced Katherine's career

Laura Sjoberg and Caron Gentry (2007) Mothers Monsters Whores

Talal Asad (1993) Genealogies of Religion

Saba Mahmood (2004) Politics of Piety: the Islamic Revival and the feminist subject

Some of Katherine's key research

ISIS as a Proto-State (forthcoming, 2018)

Gender and Anti-Radicalization: women and emerging counter-terrorism measures (2012)

Marginality as a Feminist Research Method in Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism (2015)

Further episodes of Talking Terror

Further podcasts by John F. Morrison

Website of John F. Morrison