Adjunct Lecturer
Univ of Florida, 2025
Stephanie Denardo holds a PhD in Political Science, specializing in International Relations at the University of Florida. Her research combines her experience in journalism with feminist perspectives to investigate constructions of power and order in the global system. Denardo focuses primarily on feminist IR theory, theories of IR, historical political sociology, and archival research methodologies.
Denardo’s dissertation tells an alternative history of how a discipline of International Relations was built in the US following WWII, recovering the women and marginalized peoples and perspectives involved in its construction. She investigates how gendered, racialized processes of discipline-maintenance materialized in the 1950s through 60s, and their implications for a discipline and theories of global politics today. For this project, Denardo conducted extensive archival research at Columbia University’s Rare Book and Manuscript Library in New York City, the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, and the Center for Jewish History.
Denardo teaches "Introduction to International Relations" and the advanced undergraduate courses "Theories of International Relations," "Gender and International Relations," as well as "Politics of the World Economy" in the Department of Political Science at UF. She received the Best Graduate Student Teacher Award in the Department for 2023-2024. Previously, she served as the International Relations Editorial Assistant for Perspectives on Politics (Cambridge University Press) from 2019-2023 and assisted with the journal Review of International Political Economy from 2023-2025. Denardo received a National Science Foundation Grant in 2018 for her PhD student fellowship.