I am a feminist security scholar interested in questions around the role of gender in armed conflict and military institutions. Before joining Pembroke, I was a PhD Candidate in Politics and International Relations at Royal Holloway, University of London. My PhD research examined NATO’s engagement with the United Nations Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda, with a particular focus on what the concept of gender means to NATO and how this understanding shapes its engagement with the WPS agenda. Beyond this research focus, I am also interested in feminist research methodologies and in the question of how different actors use international law as a political tool. Before my PhD, I studied International Relations and Global History (BA) at the University of Erfurt in Germany and Law and Politics of International Security (LLM) at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands. 

I love teaching and creating space for students to question and unpack the assumptions and concepts we use to make sense of global politics. In particular, I enjoy discussing how concepts can be understood in different ways, and what these understandings mean for how we interpret what is going on in the world. At Pembroke, I teach across different International Relations and International Security papers. 

Sjoberg, L. and Hartung, K. (2026) “Is there a feminist jus ad vim?“, International Affairs, 102(5), pp. 1655-1676. https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiag118

Sjoberg, L. and Hartung, K. (2026) “The gender of violence in war and conflict”, in Handbook on Gender in World Politics, pp. 173-179. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781803923772.00035