Jamie J. Hagen is a Lecturer in international relations at Queen's University Belfast. Jamie received her PhD from the University of Massachusetts Boston in the Global Governance and Human Security program in 2018. Her work at the intersection of gender, security studies and queer theory appears in a number of peer reviewed journals including International Affairs (2016), and Critical Studies in Security (2017). Jamie was the 2018-2019 ISA James N. Rosenau Post-Doctoral Fellow. For Spring 2019 she was also a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Women, Peace and Security at the London School for Economics and Politics.

Maria-Adriana Deiana is a Lecturer in international relations at Queen’s University Belfast. Her research deploys feminist and other critical perspectives to examine the interrelated issues of war, peace, security. She has authored papers on gender politics, citizenship and feminist activism in contexts shaped by conflict/international intervention, as well as on 'everyday' wartime experiences as embodied, affective and mediated through aesthetic narratives. She has conducted research on the post-Yugoslav space, the politics of Northern Ireland, EU border politics and security. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed journals, including Citizenship studies, Peacebuilding, Geopolitics and the Journal of Narrative Politics. Her monograph titled 'Gender and Citizenship: Promises of Peace in Post-Dayton Bosnia & Herzegovina' was published by Palgrave in 2018.