Rate My Professor Amanda Donahoe

Dr. Amanda Donahoe is Associate Professor of Political Science, Chair of the History and Political Science Department, and Legal Studies Advisor at Centenary College of Louisiana. She earned a B.A. from Utah State University in 2000, an M.A. from American University in 2004, and a Ph.D. from the University of Denver in 2013. Her dissertation, "Wee women's work: Women and peacebuilding in Northern Ireland," focused on women's roles in community development amid the Troubles and post-conflict peacebuilding. Donahoe's research interests include women and politics, comparative politics, and peace and conflict studies, with a specialization in feminist peace research and gender in international relations.

Key publications by Donahoe include her book Peacebuilding through Women’s Community Development: Wee Women’s Work in Northern Ireland (Springer, 2017), which examines grassroots women's efforts in post-Troubles Northern Ireland. She co-authored "Care as Everyday Peacebuilding" published in Peacebuilding (2019) and in Feminist Interventions in Critical Peace and Conflict Studies (2021), cited 110 times; "Feminist Peace Research" in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Peace and Conflict Studies (2022); "The Power of Voice: Storytelling as Peacebuilding in Post-Troubles Northern Ireland" in Journal of Peacebuilding & Development (2023); "Gender, Religion, and International Relations" in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies (2014); and contributions to Teaching Peace and War: Pedagogy and Curricula (Routledge, 2020), including "Group Projects as Conflict Management Pedagogy." At Centenary, she received the Outstanding Teacher Award and Faculty Research Award in 2019. Donahoe serves as Secretary of the Faculty Personnel Committee, co-organized the annual Research Conference, participated in panels on gender and sexuality, co-hosted a discussion on the Ukraine war, and presented a guest lecture on reproductive rights in post-Brexit Northern Ireland for International Women's Day in 2023.