Neta Crawford

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Neta Crawford
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Neta (/niːtə/ NEE-tuh)[1] C. Crawford is an American political scientist currently serving as professor and chair of the Department of Political Science at the Boston University College of Arts and Sciences in Boston, Massachusetts. Crawford co-founded the Costs of War Project with anthropologist Catherine Lutz in 2010 and currently serves alongside Lutz and as a project co-director.[2] In 2021, Crawford was appointed the next Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford; she will assume the professorship in July 2022.[3]

Education and career[]

Crawford received her Bachelor of Arts from Brown University in 1985. She earned her doctorate in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, graduating in 1992. From 1994 to 1996, Crawford completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Brown's Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. After teaching at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst,[1] she returned to Brown as an associate and later adjunct professor. In 2005, she was appointed Professor of Political Science at Boston University.[4]

In 2010, Crawford co-founded the Costs of War Project with the goal of documenting the direct and indirect human and financial costs of the War on Terror.[5] The project released its first findings in June 2011 and has published continuously since. The project is the most extensive and comprehensive public accounting of the cost of post-September 11th U.S. military operations compiled to date.[6][7]

Since October 2017, Crawford has served on the board of the nuclear non-proliferation advocacy organization, Council for a Livable World. She serves on the editorial boards of The Journal of Political Philosophy and Global Perspectives.[4]

Personal life[]

Crawford is black and Native American. She is a lesbian.[1]

Books[]

  • Accountability for Killing: Moral Responsibility for Collateral Damage in America’s Post-9/11 Wars, Oxford University Press, 2013, ISBN 9780199981724
  • Argument and Change in World Politics Ethics, Decolonization, and Humanitarian Intervention, Cambridge University Press, 2002, ISBN 9780521002790
  • Crawford, Neta; Klotz, Audie, eds. (1999), How Sanctions Work: Lessons from South Africa, International Political Economy Series, Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 978-0-333-72551-1
  • Soviet Military Aircraft, Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies, 1987, ISBN 9780669148879

References[]

  1. ^ a b c Wilson, Robin (23 November 2001). "Divided Loyalties at UMass". www.chronicle.com. Retrieved 2021-09-25.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. ^ Li, Aubrey (2019-11-08). "'Costs of War' project initiates research series to evaluate post-9/11 wars". Brown Daily Herald. Retrieved 2021-09-12.
  3. ^ "Neta Crawford appointed Montague Burton Professor of International Relations". www.politics.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2021-09-25.
  4. ^ a b Crawford, Neta (2021). "Neta C. Crawford" (PDF).{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. ^ Masco, Joseph (2013). "Auditing the War on Terror: The Watson Institute's Costs of War Project". American Anthropologist. 115 (2): 312–313. doi:10.1111/aman.12012. ISSN 1548-1433.
  6. ^ Gagosz, Alexa (1 September 2021). "The costs of post-9/11 wars exceed $8 trillion for US". Boston Globe. Retrieved 2021-09-12.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. ^ Hussain, Murtaza a (1 September 2021). "Over Two Decades, U.S.'s Global War on Terror Has Taken Nearly 1 Million Lives and Cost $8 Trillion". The Intercept. Retrieved 2021-09-12.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

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