Priya Dixit

Priya Dixit, Associate Professor

_{Department of Political Science

511 Major Williams Hall (0130)

220 Stanger Street

Blacksburg, VA 24061

540-231-5323 | pdixit@vt.edu}

Professor Dixit’s research interests are critical security studies (especially terrorism); qualitative research methodologies (especially discourse analysis and ethnography) and postcolonial theory in International Relations.

Currently, Dr. Dixit is researching the role played by Gurkhas in global security, taking a historical and comparative approach. She is also working on how the "war on terror" (and terrorism in general) is visualized and communicated by different social actors. A related interest is on U.S. foreign policy/national security and its conceptualization of threats, specifically the use of terrorism by states.

Principal Areas of Research Focus

U.S. Foreign Policy
Terrorism and Counterterrorism
Global Security and Critical Security Studies

Education

PhD, American University
M. of International Studies, University of Sydney
BA, James Cook University

Professional Roles

Journal of International Relations and Development, former Managing Editor
International Trade and Industry Division, UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, former Associate Economic Affairs Officer
International Studies Association
American Political Science Association
Association of American Geographers

Awards and Honors

2014: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship for “World War One in the Middle East”, Summer Institute at Georgetown University, Washington DC.
2013: Investigator in a National Science Foundation grant proposal on “Physical and Socioeconomic Impacts of Hurricane Sandy” (Principal Investigators: Robert Weiss, VT Geosciences and Jennifer Irish, VT Engineering).
2013: College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences Scholarship for 2013-2014, Virginia Tech.

Publications

Books

Critical Methods For the Study Of Terrorism, Dixit, P. and Stump, J. (eds)., Routledge, London and New York (2014)

Dixit, P. On Terrorism: “States” and “Terrorists” in Nepal and the United Kingdom, Manchester University Press, Manchester, UK (2015).

Dixit, P. and Stump, J. Critical Terrorism Studies: An Introduction to Research, Routledge, London and New York (2013).

Journal Articles

Dixit, P. “The Rhetoric of “Terrorism” and the Evolution of a Counterterrorist State in Nepal,” Global Change, Peace & Security, 25, 2 (June 2013).

Dixit, P. “Relating to Difference: Aliens and Alienness in Doctor Who and International Relations,” International Studies Perspectives, Volume 13, Issue 3 (August 2012): 289-306.

Dixit, P. and Stump, J. “Toward a Completely Constructivist Critical Terrorism Studies,” International Relations, Volume 26, Issue 2 (June 2012): 199-217.

Dixit, P. and Stump J. “A Response to Smith and Jones: It’s Not as Bad as it Seems; Or, Five Ways to Move Critical Terrorism Studies Forward,” Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Vol. 34, (June 2011): 501-11.

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