Miriam Anderson is Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Toronto Metropolitan University. Anderson holds a Ph.D. in Politics and International Studies from the University of Cambridge and a B.A. (International Relations) and M.A. (Political Science) from the University of British Columbia. She researches non-state actors in international security, specializing in women’s participation in peace processes and in post-conflict politics. She is currently completing two Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)-funded projects, the first of which explores the impact of gender-inclusive peace negotiations on women’s political influence in post-conflict politics and the second which follows a transnational women’s peace activist group following the collapse of a peace process. She is also co-editing a special issue of International Negotiation with Galia Golan (Hebrew University) on women and Track I civil war peace negotiations as well as organizing a workshop with Elizabeth Corredor (Toronto Metropolitan University) and Julia Zulver (Oxford and National Autonomous University of Mexico) entitled Feminism in the Face of Failure: Writing the Next Chapter.

Anderson has published two books: Windows of Opportunity: How Women Seize Peace Negotiations (Oxford University Press, 2016) and Transnational Actors in War and Peace: Militants, Activists, and Corporations in World Politics (Georgetown University Press, 2017) eds. with David Malet. Her work has also been published in International Negotiation, Politics & Gender, Journal of Refugee Studies, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, and The Monkey Cage Blog (Washington Post). She has held visiting scholar positions at the 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.

From 1999-2002, Dr. Anderson served 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). Anderson has volunteered with grassroots organizations in Nicaragua and El Salvador.