Academy Fellow

Jacqui True FASSA FAIIA is Professor of International Relations and Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence against Women (CEVAW). She is a Global Fellow, Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO) and received an honorary doctorate from Lund University Sweden in 2018. Her research focuses on gendered political violence, feminist political economy and the Women, Peace and Security agenda. Most recently she published, Hidden Wars: Gendered Violence in Asia’s Civil Conflicts (2024) and co-edited The Oxford Handbook of Women, Peace and Security (2019) (with Sara E. Davies). In 2021 she was named by Apolitical (UK) as one of the top 100 global experts on gender policy for gender-based violence.

• Director ARC Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
• Associate Dean Research, Faculty of Arts, Monash University 2012-2015
• Member of New Zealand Performance Based Research Social Sciences Panel 2011-2013.
• Chair of the International Relations Standing Committee of the Australian Political Science Association, 2012-2014.
• Member of the External Advisory Board of the University of Queensland Asia Pacific Responsibility to Protect Centre.
• Member of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom Academic Network
• Member of the Governance Board of the Oxfam-Monash Partnership

ARC Future Fellowship 2015 - 2019

Fellow of the Australian Institute of International Affairs

Member of the International Studies Association of North America

Member of the Australian Political Science Association

Member of the International Political Science Association

Winner of the American Political Science Association (APSA) 2012 Best Book in Human Rights Prize (awarded biennially).

Winner of the British International Studies Association International Political Economy Group 2013 Best Book Prize.

Winner 2015 Australian Political Science Association Carole Pateman Book Prize in Gender and Politics (2011-14) Award.

Davies, S. and True, J. Hidden Wars: Gendered Political Violence in Asia's Civil Conflicts. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024.

True, J. Violence against women: What everyone needs to know. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.

True, J. The Political Economy of Violence Against Women. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012

Davies, S.E and J. True. “Reframing Conflict Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Bringing Gender Analysis Back in.” Security Dialogue 46, 6: 495-512, 2015.

Ackerly, B, Stern, M and True, J. Feminist Methodologies for International Relations, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006).

True, J and M-L Krook. 2012. “Rethinking the Life Cycles of International Norms: The United Nations and the Global Promotion of Gender Equality.” European Journal of International Relations (EJIR) 18, 1: 103-127