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C. Crawford (born 1961) is an American political scientist. She is
Montague Burton Chair in International Relations at the
University of Oxford
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and holds a Professorial Fellowship at
Balliol College
Balliol College () is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. One of Oxford's oldest colleges, it was founded around 1263 by John I de Balliol, a landowner from Barnard Castle in County Durham, who provided the f ...
.
Crawford previously served as professor and chair of the Department of Political Science at the
Boston University College of Arts and Sciences
The College of Arts & Sciences (CAS), which includes the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences (GRS), is the largest school at Boston University, offering Bachelor of Arts degrees in over 20 departments and 25 interdisciplinary programs, including th ...
in
Boston, Massachusetts.
Crawford co-founded the
Costs of War Project
The Costs of War Project is a nonpartisan research project based at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University that seeks to document the direct and indirect human and financial costs of U.S. wars in Iraq and ...
with anthropologist
Catherine Lutz
Catherine A. Lutz (; born 1952) is an American anthropologist and Thomas J. Watson, Jr. Family Professor of Anthropology and International Studies at Brown University. She is also a Research Professor at the Watson Institute where she serves as a ...
in 2010 and currently serves alongside Lutz and
Stephanie Savell as a project co-director.
Education and career
Crawford received her Bachelor of Arts from
Brown University
Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...
in 1985, where she pursued an independent concentration entitled "The War System and Alternatives to
Militarism
Militarism is the belief or the desire of a government or a people that a state should maintain a strong military capability and to use it aggressively to expand national interests and/or values. It may also imply the glorification of the mili ...
." She earned her doctorate in political science from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...
, graduating in 1992. From 1994 to 1996, Crawford completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Brown's
Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs
The Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs is an interdisciplinary research center at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Its mission is to promote a just and peaceful world through research, teaching, and public engagement ...
. After teaching at the
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
The University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst, UMass) is a public research university in Amherst, Massachusetts and the sole public land-grant university in Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Founded in 1863 as an agricultural college, i ...
,
she returned to Brown as an associate and later adjunct professor. In 2005, she was appointed Professor of Political Science at
Boston University
Boston University (BU) is a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. The university is nonsectarian, but has a historical affiliation with the United Methodist Church. It was founded in 1839 by Methodists with its original campu ...
.
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
The war on terror, officially the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT), is an ongoing international Counterterrorism, counterterrorism military campaign initiated by the United States following the September 11 attacks. The main targets of the campa ...
. 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
Events Pre-1600
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U.S. military operations compiled to date.
Since October 2017, Crawford has served on the board of the nuclear non-proliferation advocacy organization,
Council for a Livable World
Council for a Livable World is a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit advocacy organization dedicated to eliminating the U.S. arsenal of nuclear weapons. Its stated aim is for "progressive national security policies and helping elect congressional c ...
. She serves on the editorial boards of ''
The Journal of Political Philosophy
''The Journal of Political Philosophy'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering all aspects of political philosophy.
Controversy
The journal became engaged in a controversy when it published three articles on Black Lives Matter, eac ...
'' and ''Global Perspectives.
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In 2021, Crawford was appointed Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford.
Personal life
Crawford is black and Native American. She is a lesbian.
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Brown University alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
University of Massachusetts Amherst faculty
Brown University faculty
Boston University faculty
American women political scientists
American political scientists
African-American social scientists
LGBT African Americans
21st-century African-American women
21st-century African-American people
Living people
1961 births