Robin L. Riley
Robin L. Riley
Assistant Professor
CONTACT
Women's and Gender Studies
340 Sims Hall
Email: rlriley@syr.edu
PROGRAM AFFILIATIONS
LGBTQ Studies
Education
- Ph. D. Social Science, Syracuse University, 2000
Dissertation: Hidden Soldiers: Gender, Militarism, and the Discourses of Defense - Master of Arts in Social Science 1992
Binghamton University
Thesis: On Women, Peace and Protest - Bachelor of Arts 1989 with honors
Binghamton University
Courses Taught
WGS 201 Transnational Feminist Studies
WGS 354 Gender, Militarism and War
WGS 395 Gender and Popular Culture
WGS 601 Feminist Theories
Prof. Riley's research on gender, militarism, and war and popular culture looks at the ways constructions of gender, race, class, and sexuality work to uphold the state and perpetuate oppressive and destructive processes including militarism, war, and imperialism. She teaches a variety of courses in Women’s and Gender Studies and in the LGBT Studies Program.
Dr. Riley works on projects that extend the analysis of her book Depicting the Veil to look at how in U.S. Film & television white blonde women are depicted as the ultimate defense against “terrorism” around the world. She is looking at how the discourse around the war on terror has shifted with a shifting enemy and finally how the end of the combat ban for U.S. Military women gets talked about in U.S. Popular press.
Depicting the Veil: Transnational Sexism and the War on Terror
Zed Press, 2013
Interrogating Imperialism: Conversations on Gender, Race, and War
With Naeem Inayatullah, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006