Helen M Kinsella

I am a Professor of Political Science and Law at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. I hold affiliate faculty positions in the Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, the Human Rights Center at the Law School, and the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change. As of June 2023, I am also a Visiting Scholar, at the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice, Queens University, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

I was previously an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and an affiliate in the Department of Gender & Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 2005 to 2018.

I held fellowships at the Council on Foreign Relations with the International Committee of the Red Cross, the New York University School of Law, and postdoctoral and predoctoral appointments at Stanford University and Harvard University. In Spring 2023, I was the Fulbright U.S. Friends of Queen’s University Belfast Distinguished Scholar focusing on the gendered legacies of the use of tear gas, building on my previous research on international humanitarian law and its gendered obligations, violations, and effects.