Cai Wilkinson (she/they)
Cai is an Associate Professor in International Relations in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia.
She joined Deakin in February 2012 from the University of Birmingham in the UK, where she was a Lecturer in Russian in the Centre for Russian and East European Studies between September 2009 and December 2011.
She holds a BA (First Class Honours) in Russian, an MA in Russian and East European Studies, a PhD, and a Postgraduate Certificate of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, all from the University of Birmingham in the UK. She was funded under the ESRC's 1+3 program for her MA and PhD.
During the course of her studies she spent time at the Kyrgyz-Russian Slavic University in Bishkek (2000-2001), Krasnoyarsk State University (Autumn 2001), Voronezh Interlingua (Spring-Summer 2002) and Copenhagen University (Summer 2005).
Empirically, Cai's research focuses on the former Soviet Union and especially Kyrgyzstan, where she has conducted fieldwork on identity and security, and LGBT activism.
Her research interests include:
• Securitization Studies and Critical Security Studies;
• Interpretive methods and fieldwork in International Relations;
• International norms socialization and localization;
• Genders and sexualities in International Relations;
• Security and development.
Cai served as Chair of the International Studies Association (ISA) LGBTQA Caucus between February 2012 and March 2014 and March 2016 and February 2017. She has also served as Member-at-Large on the Executive Committee of the Feminist Theory and Gender Studies (FTGS) section of the ISA and 2019 was the recipient of the ISA LGBTQA Caucus' Eminent Scholar Award.
Since 2017 Cai has been an instructor at the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Summer School in Methods and Techniques, delivering introductory and advanced courses on interpretive ethnographic fieldwork methods.
Phone: +61392443951
She joined Deakin in February 2012 from the University of Birmingham in the UK, where she was a Lecturer in Russian in the Centre for Russian and East European Studies between September 2009 and December 2011.
She holds a BA (First Class Honours) in Russian, an MA in Russian and East European Studies, a PhD, and a Postgraduate Certificate of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, all from the University of Birmingham in the UK. She was funded under the ESRC's 1+3 program for her MA and PhD.
During the course of her studies she spent time at the Kyrgyz-Russian Slavic University in Bishkek (2000-2001), Krasnoyarsk State University (Autumn 2001), Voronezh Interlingua (Spring-Summer 2002) and Copenhagen University (Summer 2005).
Empirically, Cai's research focuses on the former Soviet Union and especially Kyrgyzstan, where she has conducted fieldwork on identity and security, and LGBT activism.
Her research interests include:
• Securitization Studies and Critical Security Studies;
• Interpretive methods and fieldwork in International Relations;
• International norms socialization and localization;
• Genders and sexualities in International Relations;
• Security and development.
Cai served as Chair of the International Studies Association (ISA) LGBTQA Caucus between February 2012 and March 2014 and March 2016 and February 2017. She has also served as Member-at-Large on the Executive Committee of the Feminist Theory and Gender Studies (FTGS) section of the ISA and 2019 was the recipient of the ISA LGBTQA Caucus' Eminent Scholar Award.
Since 2017 Cai has been an instructor at the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Summer School in Methods and Techniques, delivering introductory and advanced courses on interpretive ethnographic fieldwork methods.
Phone: +61392443951
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