Jennifer M. Ramos

Associate Professor and Director of International Relations | Loyola Marymount University

Los Angeles, CA, UNITED STATES

Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts

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Jennifer M. Ramos is Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Political Science at Loyola Marymount University. Her research focuses on understanding the causes and consequences of political change, with an emphasis on the role of ideas, norms, and identity. In addition, she specializes in US public opinion and foreign policy. Her current research interests include religion and foreign policy preferences, drone warfare, and the preventive use of force.

Professor Ramos' latest work is an edited volume, Preventive Force: Drones, Targeted Killing and the Transformation of Contemporary Warfare (NYU Press, July 2016), with Kerstin Fisk. Her previous books include Changing Norms through Actions: The Evolution of Sovereignty (Oxford UP, 2013) and an edited volume, iPolitics: Citizens, Elections and Governing in the New Media Era (Cambridge UP, 2012) with Richard L. Fox. Her other scholarly work has appeared in Journal of Politics, Public Opinion Quarterly, Journal of Political Ideologies, Human Rights Review, and International Studies Perspectives.

With a passion for international relations, she has lived, worked, researched and studied in a number of countries, including The Netherlands, Austria, France, Germany, and Mexico. Her recent experiential learning courses include immersion trips to the United Nations in New York to study human rights, and to Belfast, Northern Ireland to examine the process of peace and reconciliation.

Education (3)

University of California at Davis: Ph.D., Political Science 2008

San Fransisco State University: M.A., International Relations 2001

Study Abroad, European Studies, University of Amsterdam, 1998.

University of California at Davis: B.A., International Relations and German 1995

Areas of Expertise (9)

Political Science Causes and Consequences of Political Change Us Public Opinion Us Foreign Policy International Relations International Norms International Security Public Opinion and U.S. Foreign Policy Preventive Use of Force

Accomplishments (1)

ISA Deborah Gerner Innovative Teaching Award (professional)

ISA Deborah Gerner Innovative Teaching Award

Links (1)

Chair ISA Committee on the Status of Women

Media Appearances (1)

A Conversation with Jennifer Ramos

The Magazine of Loyola Marymount University online

2015-06-02

Jennifer Ramos, associate professor of political science, studies the causes and consequences of political change, U.S. public opinion and foreign policy, drone warfare, and religion and foreign policy preferences. She is the author of “Changing Norms Through Actions: The Evolution of Sovereignty” and teaches in the Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts. Ramos was interviewed by Editor Joseph Wakelee-Lynch.