Shelby E. Ward

Shelby E. Ward is a doctoral candidate in the Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Thought (ASPECT) program at Virginia Tech, where she teaches for the Political Science Department. Ward is a transdisciplinary scholar with backgrounds in critical, feminist, and postcolonial theories, and an emphasis on narratives, who investigates neocolonial power relations within current international relations. Her dissertation is “Strange(r) Maps: the geopolitics of Sri Lankan Tourism,” which looks at the neocolonial productions and mediations in Sri Lankan tourist maps. Her work is committed to critiquing unequal power relations and issues of positionality to create more accountable structures. She has currently published in feminist, postcolonial, and interdisciplinary journals. shelby08@vt.edu.