Gitte du Plessis, Ph.D.
ACADEMY RESEARCH FELLOW
Faculty of Management and Business | Politics
Tampere University, Finland
gitte.duplessis(at)tuni.fi
ACADEMY RESEARCH FELLOW
Faculty of Management and Business | Politics
Tampere University, Finland
gitte.duplessis(at)tuni.fi
EMPLOYMENT
Academy Research Fellow Politics Unit, Tampere University. 1.9.22 - 31.8.27
Docent in International Relations, specifically Political Ecology Awarded 17.12.21 by Tampere University, Faculty of Management and Business.
Academy of Finland Postdoctoral Researcher Politics Unit, Tampere University 1.9.19 - 31.8.22 (Parental leave 1.11.19 to 6.1.20).
Postdoctoral Researcher Geography Research Unit, University of Oulu 1.8.17 - 31.08.19 (Parental leave 27.8.18 to 28.4.19).
VISITING POSITIONS
Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher Department of Anthropology and Human Security, and the Centre for Environmental Humanities, Aarhus University 1.9.20 - 1.9.22.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Political Science Department of Political Science, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, U.S.A. 2017.
Master of Social Science in Human Resource Management Department of Organization, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark 2012.
Bachelor of Arts in Media Studies Department of Media and Journalism Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark 2010.
RESEARCH GRANTS
Academy of Finland (2022-2027). PI of the project “The Politics of Predation: An ecological framework for strategic violence (ECOPRED).” €588,000.
Academy of Finland (2019-2022). PI of the project “Political Ecologies of Chemical Warfare: Toxicity and Bodies in International Relations.” €355,000.
PUBLICATIONS (See elsewhere on website)
MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW
Kalama: Oceanic Countercurrents of U.S. Imperialism G. du Plessis, C. Grimm, K. Kajihiro and K. Gofigan Kuper (Submitted for initial review).
Extermination and Excess: Martial Economies of Poison G. du Plessis (Submitted for initial review).
TEACHING AND ADVISING
AARHUS UNIVERSITY, DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY AND HUMAN SECURITY
Supervisor for 3 Master’s Thesis students in Human Security, completed 2022.
CAT Contemporary Anthropological Themes, Module 1: Postcolonialism, Fall 2021.
Human Security, Core Concepts Contextualised, guest lecturer, Fall 2020 and 2021.
TAMPERE UNIVERSITY, POLITICS UNIT
POLKVA31 Arctic Geopolitics and Climate Change, Tampere Summer School 2021
POLKVA44 Ecology, Technology and Materiality in Conflict, Fall 2020
POLKVA44 Technology, Materiality and Visuality in Conflict, Fall 2019
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI'I at MANOA, DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
POLS 324 Global Environmental Politics, Summer 2017
POLS 379 Power in America, Spring 2017
POLS 385 American Politics, Fall 2016
POLS 305 Global Politics, Spring 2016
POLS 343 The Politics of Film, Fall 2015
POLS 315 Global Politics, Summer 2015
POLS 110 Introduction to Political Science, Spring 2015
POLS 315 Global Politics, Summer 2014
POLS 110 Introduction to Political Science, Spring 2014
TEACHER EDUCATION
Essentials of Doctoral Supervision for the Beginning Supervisor, Tampere University, Spring 2021 (1 ETCS).
Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, Tampere University, Spring 2021 (10 ETCS).
AWARDS & HONOURS
Winner, Best Pre-Phd Paper Award: International Studies Association (ISA) Theory section, 2016.
2017 Jorge Fernandes Memorial Award, Department of Political Science, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, 2016.
Achievement Scholarship, Department of Political Science, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, 2016 and 2017.
Scholarship, Danish-American Rebild Society, 2009.
INVITED TALKS
Between Plasticity and Control: Microbiopolitics and security logics of nurturing
Department of Culture Studies, University of Oslo, November 10, 2021.
Invited Speaker for the Politiikasta.fi panel, Annual Conference of the Finnish Political Science Association: “Beyond the Liberal Peace Theory? Democracy and Security in a Posthumanist Perspective,” May 12, 2021.
Killing Reindeer: A Spatial analysis of Nordic states and nomadic forms of life in the Arctic Centre for Environmental Humanities, Aarhus University, February 25, 2021.
Invisibility, Colors, Snow: Arctic Biosemiotics and the Violence of Climate Change
Global Politics, Economy and Society (GPES) research centre seminar, Oxford Brookes University, February 1, 2021.
Invisibility, Colors, Snow: Arctic Biosemiotics and the Violence of Climate Change Department of Anthropology, Aarhus University, October 28, 2020.
Viral imaginations: The security politics of a zombie apocalypse
Virginia Tech, February 27, 2017.
CONFERENCE ACTIVITY
RECENT PAPERS PRESENTED
The dirt on climate change: Ecosystem disservices and Georges Bataille’s base materialism
Geopolitics and Planetary Boundaries Workshop, Sigtuna, Stockholm, October 27, 2022.
Solarity, Excess, and War: A Bataillian reading of climate security
Climate Security: Toward a critical conceptualization workshop, University of Hamburg, September 30, 2022.
Destructive Plasticity and the microbial geopolitics of hunger
European International Studies Association Conference, Athens, September 3, 2022
War and excess: Racial ecologies of pesticides
European International Studies Association Conference, Athens, September 3, 2022.
Microbial Interventions: Destructive Plasticity and Microbiopolitics after Security
Afterlives of Epidemics Conference, Oslo, June 9, 2022.
Conservation by ruination: The toxic geopolitics of Kalama Atoll
With Kyle Kajihiro. British International Studies Association Conference, June 23, 2021.
State space and reindeer space: New perspectives on land-use conflicts
UArctic Congress, Oulu September 6, 2018.
White ecology: A chromatic analysis of Arctic geopolitics
European Society for Literature, Science and the Arts Conference, Copenhagen, June 15, 2018.
PANELS ORGANIZED
The Toxicity of Empire: Ruination, sacrifice, myth and nostalgia
British International Studies Association Conference, June 23, 2021.
Life and Death in Anthropocene Catastrophe: Politics, Ethics and Temporalities
International Studies Association Annual Convention, Baltimore, February 22, 2017.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Board member
LAG (Local Action Group) Djursland, part of the European Union Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD), 2021-present.
Reviewer
Security Dialogue, Critical Studies on Security, Millennium: Journal of International Studies, Space and Polity, International Political Sociology, Geopolitics, Political Geography.
Editorial communications team member
International Political Sociology, 2017-present.
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Danish (native)
English (native/bilingual)
Swedish (advanced)
German (intermediate)
Academy Research Fellow Politics Unit, Tampere University. 1.9.22 - 31.8.27
Docent in International Relations, specifically Political Ecology Awarded 17.12.21 by Tampere University, Faculty of Management and Business.
Academy of Finland Postdoctoral Researcher Politics Unit, Tampere University 1.9.19 - 31.8.22 (Parental leave 1.11.19 to 6.1.20).
Postdoctoral Researcher Geography Research Unit, University of Oulu 1.8.17 - 31.08.19 (Parental leave 27.8.18 to 28.4.19).
VISITING POSITIONS
Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher Department of Anthropology and Human Security, and the Centre for Environmental Humanities, Aarhus University 1.9.20 - 1.9.22.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Political Science Department of Political Science, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, U.S.A. 2017.
Master of Social Science in Human Resource Management Department of Organization, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark 2012.
Bachelor of Arts in Media Studies Department of Media and Journalism Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark 2010.
RESEARCH GRANTS
Academy of Finland (2022-2027). PI of the project “The Politics of Predation: An ecological framework for strategic violence (ECOPRED).” €588,000.
Academy of Finland (2019-2022). PI of the project “Political Ecologies of Chemical Warfare: Toxicity and Bodies in International Relations.” €355,000.
PUBLICATIONS (See elsewhere on website)
MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW
Kalama: Oceanic Countercurrents of U.S. Imperialism G. du Plessis, C. Grimm, K. Kajihiro and K. Gofigan Kuper (Submitted for initial review).
Extermination and Excess: Martial Economies of Poison G. du Plessis (Submitted for initial review).
TEACHING AND ADVISING
AARHUS UNIVERSITY, DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY AND HUMAN SECURITY
Supervisor for 3 Master’s Thesis students in Human Security, completed 2022.
CAT Contemporary Anthropological Themes, Module 1: Postcolonialism, Fall 2021.
Human Security, Core Concepts Contextualised, guest lecturer, Fall 2020 and 2021.
TAMPERE UNIVERSITY, POLITICS UNIT
POLKVA31 Arctic Geopolitics and Climate Change, Tampere Summer School 2021
POLKVA44 Ecology, Technology and Materiality in Conflict, Fall 2020
POLKVA44 Technology, Materiality and Visuality in Conflict, Fall 2019
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI'I at MANOA, DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
POLS 324 Global Environmental Politics, Summer 2017
POLS 379 Power in America, Spring 2017
POLS 385 American Politics, Fall 2016
POLS 305 Global Politics, Spring 2016
POLS 343 The Politics of Film, Fall 2015
POLS 315 Global Politics, Summer 2015
POLS 110 Introduction to Political Science, Spring 2015
POLS 315 Global Politics, Summer 2014
POLS 110 Introduction to Political Science, Spring 2014
TEACHER EDUCATION
Essentials of Doctoral Supervision for the Beginning Supervisor, Tampere University, Spring 2021 (1 ETCS).
Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, Tampere University, Spring 2021 (10 ETCS).
AWARDS & HONOURS
Winner, Best Pre-Phd Paper Award: International Studies Association (ISA) Theory section, 2016.
2017 Jorge Fernandes Memorial Award, Department of Political Science, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, 2016.
Achievement Scholarship, Department of Political Science, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, 2016 and 2017.
Scholarship, Danish-American Rebild Society, 2009.
INVITED TALKS
Between Plasticity and Control: Microbiopolitics and security logics of nurturing
Department of Culture Studies, University of Oslo, November 10, 2021.
Invited Speaker for the Politiikasta.fi panel, Annual Conference of the Finnish Political Science Association: “Beyond the Liberal Peace Theory? Democracy and Security in a Posthumanist Perspective,” May 12, 2021.
Killing Reindeer: A Spatial analysis of Nordic states and nomadic forms of life in the Arctic Centre for Environmental Humanities, Aarhus University, February 25, 2021.
Invisibility, Colors, Snow: Arctic Biosemiotics and the Violence of Climate Change
Global Politics, Economy and Society (GPES) research centre seminar, Oxford Brookes University, February 1, 2021.
Invisibility, Colors, Snow: Arctic Biosemiotics and the Violence of Climate Change Department of Anthropology, Aarhus University, October 28, 2020.
Viral imaginations: The security politics of a zombie apocalypse
Virginia Tech, February 27, 2017.
CONFERENCE ACTIVITY
RECENT PAPERS PRESENTED
The dirt on climate change: Ecosystem disservices and Georges Bataille’s base materialism
Geopolitics and Planetary Boundaries Workshop, Sigtuna, Stockholm, October 27, 2022.
Solarity, Excess, and War: A Bataillian reading of climate security
Climate Security: Toward a critical conceptualization workshop, University of Hamburg, September 30, 2022.
Destructive Plasticity and the microbial geopolitics of hunger
European International Studies Association Conference, Athens, September 3, 2022
War and excess: Racial ecologies of pesticides
European International Studies Association Conference, Athens, September 3, 2022.
Microbial Interventions: Destructive Plasticity and Microbiopolitics after Security
Afterlives of Epidemics Conference, Oslo, June 9, 2022.
Conservation by ruination: The toxic geopolitics of Kalama Atoll
With Kyle Kajihiro. British International Studies Association Conference, June 23, 2021.
State space and reindeer space: New perspectives on land-use conflicts
UArctic Congress, Oulu September 6, 2018.
White ecology: A chromatic analysis of Arctic geopolitics
European Society for Literature, Science and the Arts Conference, Copenhagen, June 15, 2018.
PANELS ORGANIZED
The Toxicity of Empire: Ruination, sacrifice, myth and nostalgia
British International Studies Association Conference, June 23, 2021.
Life and Death in Anthropocene Catastrophe: Politics, Ethics and Temporalities
International Studies Association Annual Convention, Baltimore, February 22, 2017.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Board member
LAG (Local Action Group) Djursland, part of the European Union Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD), 2021-present.
Reviewer
Security Dialogue, Critical Studies on Security, Millennium: Journal of International Studies, Space and Polity, International Political Sociology, Geopolitics, Political Geography.
Editorial communications team member
International Political Sociology, 2017-present.
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Danish (native)
English (native/bilingual)
Swedish (advanced)
German (intermediate)
