Chair: Dr Amanda Chisholm, Senior Lecturer in Security Studies / Researcher in Gender and Security

Discussants: Laura Zuber, Karoline Färber, Kunika Kakuta and Dr Anna Brinkman

 

In this WIWIP panel discussion entitled The Women of War Studies, we invite women from the Department of War Studies and the Defence Studies Department to talk about their careers and answer questions posed by students.

We are very pleased to be joined by Kunika Kakuta, a final year doctoral candidate in the Department of War Studies, and Dr Anna Brinkman and our discussants, WIWIP Committee Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (ED&I) Officers Laura Zuber and Karoline Färber (both first year PhD candidates in the Department of War Studies).

 

WIWIP (Women in War and International Politics) is a department-led initiative that seeks to give greater visibility to the achievements of women in the fields of War Studies, International Politics, Security and Defence, and works closely with the department’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee in this capacity.

WIWIP seeks to support and increase the visibility of women from King's College London who work in the fields of War Studies and International Politics, whether as students, researchers, or practitioners, and to showcase their work and achievements.

 

Bios

Dr Anna Brinkman-Schwartz is a Mexican-American and came to the War Studies Department at King's in 2011 to get an MA in the History of Warfare. She then stayed on to obtain her PhD in War Studies/Defence Studies which was awarded in July 2017. After her PhD she went to the University of Warwick to do an AHRC funded 3 year Post-doc in the Hispanic Studies Department. The project was called 'Imperial Entanglements: Trans-Oceanic Basque Networks in British and Spanish Colonialism and their Legacy'. After her post-doc, Anna had a year of teaching Oral Spanish at Warwick as a Sessional Teaching Fellow, teaching at King's DSD as a teaching fellow on the International Affairs MA, and teaching A-Level history and politics at Greene's College in Oxford. In September 2020 she joined the Defence Studies Department as a lecturer on a one-year contract. Her research focuses on the history of Maritime Strategic Thinking and International Law during the 18th and 19th centuries with a focus on the British and Spanish empires.

 

Kunika Kakuta is a final year PhD student in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London, supervised by Professor Andrew Lambert and Dr Alessio Patalano. She is also part of the Laughton Naval Unit. Prior to joining the Department of War Studies in October 2016, Kunika read Classics at Royal Holloway, University of London and read intercollegiate MA in Ancient History at Royal Holloway, King’s College London, and University College London. She also teaches BA undergraduate students in the Department of War Studies and Intermediate Officer Development courses at the Joint Services Command and Staff College at the UK Defence Academy in Shrivenham.

Doctoral research: Empire of the Rising Sun and the Empire of the Owl: A comparative approach to Seapower as political and cultural identity in Imperial Japan (1868-1922) and 5th- Century BC Athens. Her thesis aims to establish a comparative history project between Imperial Japan and Classical Athens of fifth Century BC.  

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