Neta ( ) C. Crawford (born 1961) is an American political scientist. She is Montague Burton Chair in International Relations at the

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and holds a Professorial Fellowship at

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. Crawford previously served as professor and chair of the Department of Political Science at the Boston University College of Arts and Sciences in Boston, Massachusetts. Crawford co-founded the Costs of War Project with anthropologist

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in 2010 and currently serves alongside Lutz and

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as a project co-director.

Education and career

Crawford received her Bachelor of Arts from Brown University in 1985, where she pursued an independent concentration entitled "The War System and Alternatives to

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." She earned her doctorate in political science from the

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, graduating in 1992. From 1994 to 1996, Crawford completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Brown's

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. After teaching at the

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, she returned to Brown as an associate and later adjunct professor. In 2005, she was appointed Professor of Political Science at

Boston University Boston University (BU) is a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. The university is nonsectarian, but has a historical affiliation with the United Methodist Church. It was founded in 1839 by Methodists with its original c ...

. In 2010, Crawford co-founded the Costs of War Project with the goal of documenting the direct and indirect human and financial costs of the

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. The project released its first findings in June 2011 and has published continuously since. The project is the most extensive and comprehensive public accounting of the cost of post- September 11th U.S. military operations compiled to date. Since October 2017, Crawford has served on the board of the nuclear non-proliferation advocacy organization,

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. She serves on the editorial boards of '' The Journal of Political Philosophy'' and ''Global Perspectives.'' In 2021, Crawford was appointed Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford.

Personal life

Crawford is black and Native American. She is a lesbian.

Books

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References

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