Natalie Bormann
Natalie Bormann is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science. Prior to her affiliation with Northeastern University she held a position at the Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University. She completed her PhD in International Politics in the UK, where she also taught at the Universities of Manchester and Edinburgh.
Natalie Bormann's most recent work addresses the question of identity in the context of US security and the way in which the concept of identity is central to a reading of particular US foreign policy preferences. She explores this identity/security nexus in National Missile Defence and the Politics of US Identity (Manchester University Press) and Securing Outer Space (edited with Mike Sheehan, Routledge), in which she turns towards the more interpretative modes of inquiry provided to us by critical social theory and poststructuralism.
Her current interest focuses on identity and the question of memory in the context of Germany's most recent debates on the decision to re-release a "scientifically augmented" edition of Hitler's Mein Kampf. Here, she is interested in the interplay of the politics of ethics, trauma, and (re)constructions of truths.
Natalie's teaching includes courses on IR theory, US foreign policy, European Politics, and Modern Political Thought. She is currently teaching a Seminar in International Relations at Northeastern University.
You can read about her latest comments on North Korea at news@northeastern at www.northeastern.edu/news/stories/2009/06/northkorea.html.