Dr Jenny Mathers

BA Mount Holyoke College MPhil University of Oxford DPhil University of Oxford

Jenny Mathers received her undergraduate degree from Mount Holyoke College in the United States and her MPhil and DPhil from Oxford University. She joined the Department in 1992 while completing her DPhil thesis on Soviet ballistic missile defence policy from Stalin to Gorbachev. Her teaching and research spans two broad areas: Russian politics and security and gender and war.

Module Coordinator

• PGM0410 - Ways of Reading
• IP12620 - Behind the Headlines
• IQ24920 - Russian intelligence from Lenin to Putin
• IQ34920 - Russian intelligence from Lenin to Putin

Tutor

• PGM2310 - Research Skills and Personal Development (Science) (2310)
• PGM2210 - Research Skills and Personal Development (Arts and Humanities) (2210)
• IP30040 - Dissertation
• IPM0060 - Dissertation

Lecturer

• PGM0410 - Ways of Reading
• IPM0420 - Intelligence, Security and International Relations in the 20th Century

Moderator

• IP12620 - Behind the Headlines
• IPM2120 - Research in Politics and International Studies

Coordinator

• PGM0410 - Ways of Reading
• IQ24920 - Russian intelligence from Lenin to Putin
• IQ34920 - Russian intelligence from Lenin to Putin
• IP12620 - Behind the Headlines

PhD Supervision
Russian politics
Russian security
Civil-military relations
Women and war
Gender and security

Jenny Mathers is currently working on several related projects that focus on different aspects of Russia's war in Ukraine, including a book that examines the crisis from the perspective of feminist security studies, a project examining the militarisation of children in Putin's Russia and research into the role of the wives and mothers of Russia's soldiers fighting in Ukraine..

During semester one 2024-25, Jenny is the Department's Social Media Officer and part of the Admissions and Recruitment Team.

• Tuesday 10:30-11:30
• Thursday 4:30-5:30