Jessica Trisko Darden, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Violence
Gender
Security
Eurasia
Foreign Aid
Conflict
Education
- Ph.D., Political Science, McGill University
- M.A., Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, University of Texas at Austin
- B.A. (Hons.), International Development Studies and Russian Studies, McGill University
Research Interests
- Political violence
- Gender
- Security
- Eurasia
- Foreign assistance
- Conflict and post-conflict countries
Select Publications
- Jessica Trisko Darden, The Accused: How Women Faced Justice for Nazi-Era Crimes (Yale University Press, 2026)
- Jessica Trisko Darden, Izabela Steflja, and Amanda Wintersieck, "Framing victims and perpetrators: Local and international reporting on the International Criminal Court case against Dominic Ongwen," Media, War & Conflict (2025, Open Access)
- Izabela Steflja, Jessica Trisko Darden, and Amanda Wintersieck, “Breaking Through the Legal Binary: Media Labelling of Dominic Ongwen as a Victim-Perpetrator,” Social & Legal Studies (2023, Open Access)
- Jessica Trisko Darden, “Ukrainian Wartime Policy and the Construction of Women's Combatant Status,” Women's Studies International Forum (2023, Open Access)
- Izabela Steflja and Jessica Trisko Darden, Women as War Criminals: Gender, Agency, and Justice (Stanford University Press, 2020)
Affiliations
Courses
- POLI 366/GSWS 366/INTL 368: Women in Global Politics
- POLI 381: The Politics of Genocide
- POLI 490: Senior Seminar
- Summer Study Abroad: Aix-en-Provence, France