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Miriam Anderson

Miriam Anderson

Professor
EducationPhD (Politics and International Studies): Cambridge (UK)
Phone(416) 979-5000 x 556260

Biography

Miriam Anderson is Professor of Global Politics at Toronto Metropolitan University and Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Women, Peace and Security at the London School of Economics and Political Science (2022-2026). She holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge (Politics and International Studies) and an MA (Political Science) and a BA (International Relations) from the University of British Columbia. Dr. Anderson studies non-state actors in international security, with a focus on women's roles in peace processes and post-war politics. She has conducted fieldwork in Burundi, Kenya, Northern Ireland and Rwanda.

Dr. Anderson is the author of Windows of Opportunity: How Women Seize Peace Negotiations (Oxford University Press, 2016) and co-editor of Transnational Actors in War and Peace: Militants, Activists, and Corporations in World Politics (Georgetown University Press, 2017). Her work has also been published in various edited volumes and journals, including International Studies Review, Global Studies Quarterly, Politics & Gender, and International Negotiation. She has held visiting scholar positions at the Centre for Women, Peace and Security (LSE); Institute for African Studies (Elliot School for International Affairs, George Washington University); Institute of Development Policy and Management, (University of Antwerp); and at the School of International and Public Affairs (Columbia University).

Dr. Anderson is a network advisor to the Canadian Research Network for Women, Peace, and Security (based at Queen’s University), a member of the international editorial board of the Women, Peace, and Security at de Gruyter press, and a board member of the Ranked Ballot Initiative for Toronto (RaBIT). From 2018-2020 Dr. Anderson served as Undergraduate Program Director for the BA (Hons) program in Politics and Governance at TMU and as Interim Director of the Arts and Contemporary Studies BA (hons) program in 2024.

From 1999-2002, Miriam worked as a human rights monitor for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Mission to the Republic of Croatia. During this period she also monitored elections in Bosnia-Herzegovina and in Croatia for the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR). Miriam participated in the One World Global Education program (1994-1995), volunteering with grassroots development associations in El Salvador, Mexico, and Nicaragua.

Books Authored

Miriam J. Anderson (2016). Windows of Opportunity: How Women Seize Peace Negotiations for Political Change. New York: Oxford University Press.

  • Honourable mention, J. David Singer ISA Midwest Book Award, 2019
  •  Reviewed in American Review of Politics (Beardsley, 2018); Sex Roles (Waylen, 2017); Political Studies Review (Romaniuk, 2017); Perspectives on Politics (Meger, 2017); LSE Review of Books (J. Thomson, 2016)

Books Edited

David Malet and Miriam J. Anderson (eds.) (2017). Transnational Actors in War and Peace: Militants, Activists, and Corporations in World Politics. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.

  • Reviewed in CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries (Morris, 2017); H-Net Online: H-War (Pfannenstiel, 2018); H-Net Online: H-Diplo (Karabegović, 2018)

Special Journal Issues Edited

  • Miriam J. Anderson, Elizabeth S. Corredor, and Julia Zulver (eds) (2025). “Feminism in the Face of Failure: Peacebuilding in Violent and Illiberal “Post-Conflict” Settings.” Global Studies Quarterly 5(1).
  • Miriam J. Anderson and Galia Golan (eds.) (2023). “Women and Peace Negotiations.” International Negotiation: A Journal of Theory and Practice 28(2).

Journal Articles

  • Miriam J. Anderson, Elizabeth Corredor, and Julia Zulver (2025). “Rethinking Failure: Feminist Peacebuilding and the Peace Continuum in Violent and Illiberal ‘Post-Conflict” Settings.’ Global Studies Quarterly.
  • Miriam J. Anderson and Madeline F. Eskandari (2024), “Fake News and Gendered Public Labor: Burundian Peace Activists Combat COVID-19 Disinformation” International Studies Review, 26(4).
  • Miriam J. Anderson and Madeline F. Eskandari (2024), “Many Things to Many People: The Diversity of Motivations for Joining Diasporic Organizations in the Global South.” Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, OnlineFirst. https://doi.org/10.1177/089976402413005 (external link, opens in new window) 
  • Elizabeth S. Corredor and Miriam J. Anderson (2024). “Secrecy, Uncertainty, and Trust: The Gendered Nature of Back-Channel Peace Negotiations.” International Studies Review, 26(2).
  • Miriam J. Anderson and Madeline F. Eskandari (2023). “From Peace Talks to Pandemics: The Continuum of Feminist Peace Activism.” Global Studies Quarterly, 3(2): 1-12.
  • Miriam J. Anderson and Galia Golan (2023). “Women and Peace Negotiations: Looking Forward, Looking Back.” International Negotiation: A Journal of Theory and Practice, 28(2): 157-175.
  • Miriam J. Anderson Marc Y. Valade (2023). “From Peace Talks to Parliaments: The Microprocesses Propelling Women into Politics Following War.” International Negotiation: A Journal of Theory and Practice, 28(2): 279-305.
  • Miriam J. Anderson and Jamie Gillies (2018). “There for the Moment: Extra-Legislative Windows of Opportunity for Women’s Social Movements in Politics, A Comparison of Canada and Northern Ireland.” Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, 56(1): 157-176.
  • Miriam J. Anderson and Liam Swiss (2014). “Peace Accords and the Adoption of Electoral Quotas for Women in the Developing World, 1990-2006.” Politics & Gender, 10(1): 33-61.
  • Miriam J. Anderson (2011). “The UN Principles on Housing and Property Restitution for Refugees and Displaced Persons (The Pinheiro Principles): Suggestions for Improved Applicability.” Journal of Refugee Studies, 24(2): 304-322.
  • Miriam J. Anderson (2010). “Transnational Feminism and Norms in Peace Processes: The Cases of Burundi and Northern Ireland.” Journal of Intervention and State-Building, 4(1): 1-21.

Book Chapters

  • Marie Louise Baricako and Miriam J. Anderson (2025). “Feminist Activism in Exile: Mouvement Inamahoro” in Kiran Stallone and Julia Zulver (Springer) (eds.) Brave Women: Fighting for Justice in the 21st Century. Palgrave MacMillan. pp. 93-107.
  • Miriam J. Anderson (2025). “Preparing for the Next Window: The Endurance of Feminist Peace Activism” in Natalia Dalmer, Jutta Joachim, and Annica Kronsell eds. Gender and Security Handbook. Elgar Press. pp. 334-345.
  • Miriam J. Anderson (2017). “Women’s Advocacy Groups in Peace Negotiations” in David Malet and Miriam J. Anderson (eds.) Transnational Actors in War and Peace: Militants, Activists, and Corporations in World Politics. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press. pp. 185-196.
  • David Malet and Miriam J. Anderson (2017). “Introduction: The Transnational Century” in David Malet and Miriam J. Anderson (eds.), Transnational Actors in War and Peace: Militants, Activists, and Corporations in World Politics. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press. pp. 1-23.
  • Miriam J. Anderson and David Malet (2017). “Conclusion: Complex Transnationalism” in Malet, David and Miriam J. Anderson (eds.), Transnational Actors in War and Peace: Militants, Activists, and Corporations in World Politics. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press. pp. 215-220.
  • Miriam J. Anderson (2014). “From Principle to Policy: The Emergence, Implementation and Re-Articulation of the Right to Post-Conflict Property Repossession” in Alexander Betts and Phil Orchard (eds) Implementation and World Politics: How International Norms Change Practice. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 195-210.
  • Miriam J. Anderson (2011). "Gender and Peacemaking: Women's Rights in Contemporary Peace Agreements" in Andrea Bartoli, Susan Allen Nan, and Zachariah Mampilly (eds), Peacemaking: From Practice to Theory, Volume I, Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger Security International. pp. 344-377.

Other:

Dr. Miriam Anderson researches non-state actors in international security, specializing on women’s participation in peace processes and in post-conflict. She is currently completing a project using social network analysis to determine the impact of gender-inclusive peace negotiations on women’s political influence in post-conflict politics. She teaches courses on international relations, qualitative research methods, women and international security, and women and politics.

  • MINDS Targeted Engagement Grant 2023-2024
    Principal Investigator [with Elizabeth Corredor and Julia Zulver]
  • SSHRC Connection Grant 2023-2025
    Principal Investigator [with Elizabeth Corredor and Julia Zulver]
  • Women's Social Networks and Peace Promotion, 2018-2020
    SSHRC Insight Development Grant, Principal Investigator.
  • Women's Advancement through Peace Negotiations Ending Civil Wars, 2018-2022
    SSHRC Insight Grant, Principal Investigator.
  • Sustaining Women's Gains Made in Peace Negotiations, 2014-2017
    SSHRC Insight Development Grant, Principal Investigator.
  • Transnational Actors in War and Peace, 2014-2016
    SSHRC Connection Grant, Principal Investigator [with David Malet, co-applicant]