My research interests are in civil-military relations and ethnic conflict (as a constructivist this includes religious conflict), environmental politics, religious politics, and gender politics. My research interests include post-conflict state building, civil-war resolution, and the role of ethnicity in both state making and conflict; gender politics; and environmental politics. I am interested in questions of what a professional military looks like in ethnically divided societies and gendered aspects of security reform. Big questions I am interested in are: how the military can best be used to ameliorate ethnic tensions after an ethnic conflict; how are women incorporated into the security sector, and how does this impact the relationship between the military and society?
My main research project is looking at the impact of military service on women who chose to serve. I currently have a manucript under review that analyses the long-term effects of service on women veterans, and I am conducting focus group interviews with women veterans to better understand how service leads to these impacts. This will be part of a larger book project that compares the effects of service on women globally. At a time the military is struggling to recruit, understanding how service impacts women (the group enlisting at the highest rates at the moment) can have long lasting implications. The second project building off of this is looking at the issue of how and under what conditions women are integrated into the military, and what type of institutional change we see, especially in post-conflict areas.
A second current project looks at how women in Africa, the group to be most impacted by the effects of climate change, understand climate change, how it is already impacting traditional gender roles, and how they are working to adapt to these changes. Focus groups were conducted in the Amolatar district of Uganda in January 2019. A manuscript arguing for bringing African Women into the larger discussion is necessary to create a full picture of the adaptive capacity of women in dealing with climate change. Rather than thinking of women as victims, women need to be included in the discussions of how the effects are shaping their lives, and how solutions can be inclusive of their lived experience.
Publications
Gregory, Christina C. and Christian Lindke. "I Am No Man: Impacts Of Military Service For Female Veterans." Journal of Political and MIlitary Sociology. forthcoming.
Crespo, Ricardo A. and Christina C. Gregory. “The Doctrine of Mercy, Moral Authority, and the Foreign Policy of Pope Francis” International Politics. Published Online September 10,2019. DOI 10.1057/s41311-019-00187-7
Grittersova, Jana, Indridi H. Indridason, Christina C. Gregory, and Ricardo Crespo. “Austerity and Niche Parties: The electoral Consequences of Fiscal Reforms.” Electoral Studies, 42(2016) 276-289.
Papers Under Review at Journals
“Under The Shadow of War: Military Reconstruction In Sudan 1972-1983”.
“Women In Focus: Focus Groups, Gender, and Climate Change Vulnerability”
Papers in Progress
“A Noble Fortune? Gendered Effects of Military Service.”
“Community Resilience and the Texas National Guard” (working title)
“In Fields of Rice: Climate Change and Women’s Adaptive Capacity in Uganda.” [working title]
Awards won
Center for Resiliency, Lamar University. 2023. $14,900
“A Resilient Guard? A Comparative Study of the National Guards of Texas and Louisiana”
APSA’s Women’s Caucus Small Grant Award, 2023. $1000
Deborah Gerner Grant for Professional Development. 2023. $2000
Awarded by Lynne Rienner Publishing for field work of women veterans in the United States.
Center for Resiliency, Lamar University. 2022. $19,840
Christina Gregory, PI for project with Terri Davis, Bianca Easterly, Brian Williams
“A Comparative, Constitutional, and State Law Investigation of The Legal Challenges of Intergovernmental and Intersectoral Relations to Community Resilience”.
Study of resiliency of Texas National Guard.
College of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Summer Research Summer 2022
College of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Spring Research Competition 2023
Photos from research trip to Khartoum, Sudan 2017
My main research project is looking at the impact of military service on women who chose to serve. I currently have a manucript under review that analyses the long-term effects of service on women veterans, and I am conducting focus group interviews with women veterans to better understand how service leads to these impacts. This will be part of a larger book project that compares the effects of service on women globally. At a time the military is struggling to recruit, understanding how service impacts women (the group enlisting at the highest rates at the moment) can have long lasting implications. The second project building off of this is looking at the issue of how and under what conditions women are integrated into the military, and what type of institutional change we see, especially in post-conflict areas.
A second current project looks at how women in Africa, the group to be most impacted by the effects of climate change, understand climate change, how it is already impacting traditional gender roles, and how they are working to adapt to these changes. Focus groups were conducted in the Amolatar district of Uganda in January 2019. A manuscript arguing for bringing African Women into the larger discussion is necessary to create a full picture of the adaptive capacity of women in dealing with climate change. Rather than thinking of women as victims, women need to be included in the discussions of how the effects are shaping their lives, and how solutions can be inclusive of their lived experience.
Publications
Gregory, Christina C. and Christian Lindke. "I Am No Man: Impacts Of Military Service For Female Veterans." Journal of Political and MIlitary Sociology. forthcoming.
Crespo, Ricardo A. and Christina C. Gregory. “The Doctrine of Mercy, Moral Authority, and the Foreign Policy of Pope Francis” International Politics. Published Online September 10,2019. DOI 10.1057/s41311-019-00187-7
Grittersova, Jana, Indridi H. Indridason, Christina C. Gregory, and Ricardo Crespo. “Austerity and Niche Parties: The electoral Consequences of Fiscal Reforms.” Electoral Studies, 42(2016) 276-289.
Papers Under Review at Journals
“Under The Shadow of War: Military Reconstruction In Sudan 1972-1983”.
“Women In Focus: Focus Groups, Gender, and Climate Change Vulnerability”
Papers in Progress
“A Noble Fortune? Gendered Effects of Military Service.”
“Community Resilience and the Texas National Guard” (working title)
“In Fields of Rice: Climate Change and Women’s Adaptive Capacity in Uganda.” [working title]
Awards won
Center for Resiliency, Lamar University. 2023. $14,900
“A Resilient Guard? A Comparative Study of the National Guards of Texas and Louisiana”
APSA’s Women’s Caucus Small Grant Award, 2023. $1000
Deborah Gerner Grant for Professional Development. 2023. $2000
Awarded by Lynne Rienner Publishing for field work of women veterans in the United States.
Center for Resiliency, Lamar University. 2022. $19,840
Christina Gregory, PI for project with Terri Davis, Bianca Easterly, Brian Williams
“A Comparative, Constitutional, and State Law Investigation of The Legal Challenges of Intergovernmental and Intersectoral Relations to Community Resilience”.
Study of resiliency of Texas National Guard.
College of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Summer Research Summer 2022
College of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Spring Research Competition 2023
Photos from research trip to Khartoum, Sudan 2017