Anna Leander
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Anna Leander is a sociologist and political scientist. Leander is currently Professor with Special Responsibilities at the Copenhagen Business School and a founder of the University of Copenhagen's Centre for the Resolution of International Conflicts (CRIC). Leander is well known for her work in critical security studies and international political sociology. Theoretically, Leander has played an important role in bringing the work of Pierre Bourdieu into conversation with the discipline of International Relations, as well as more recently working with materialist and pragmatist sociologies. Empirically, much of her work focuses on the contours of private military contractors, drones, and related phenomena.
Biography
Leander is of Franco-Swedish origins and began her education at the Institut d’Études Politiques in Paris before pursuing graduate studies at the London School of Economics, London and receiving her PhD from the European University Institute, Florence in 1997. She taught as Assistant Professor at the Central European University in Budapest between 1995 and 2000, before becoming a research fellow at the Copenhagen Peace Research Institute, Associate Professor of the University of Southern Denmark, and finally moving to Copenhagen Business School in 2006 where she was promoted to full Professor in 2009.