Iuliia Hoban

Title
Program Chair, Master of Science in Human Security & Resilience and Assistant Professor
Email
Department
Dept of Emgy, Disaster & Global Security Studies
College
College of Arts & Sciences

Areas of Expertise

  • Human security and critical security studies
  • Armed conflict
  • Peace building and conflict resolution
  • Human rights
  • Feminist methodologies
  • European Union, Ukraine and Ukraine-Russia relations
Iuliia Hoban

​Iuliia Hoban is an assistant professor in the Department of Emergency, Disaster and Global Security Studies. She also serves as the program chair for the Master of Science in Human Security & Resilience.

Dr. Hoban holds a Ph.D. Global Affairs (Rutgers University-Newark), M.S. Global Affairs (Rutgers University-Newark), M.A. International Development (University of Denver), Graduate Certificate in International Studies: Humanitarian Assistance (University of Denver) and a B.A. in History from the National University Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Ukraine.

Dr. Hoban’s research agenda is broadly focused on international security and human security studies, with a particular emphasis on the politics of childhood and youth in conflict and peacebuilding settings, the gendered dimensions of responses to conflict and crisis, how strategic narratives shape policy responses and the implications of the Russia-Ukraine war on vulnerable populations. Dr. Hoban also actively contributes to the scholarship on teaching and learning with a specific focus on best practices in human rights education.

Her research has been published in such journals as Critical Security Studies, Media, War and Conflict, Cooperation and Conflict, the International Journal of Human Rights, and the Nordic Journal of Human Rights. Dr. Hoban also applied her research skills in N.G.O.s and think tanks such as Watchlist for Children and Armed Conflict (New York, NY), the Institute of World Policy (Kyiv, Ukraine) and the Laboratory to Combat Human Trafficking (Denver, CO) where her major responsibilities focused on analysis and research of multidimensional factors and aspects of human rights. She is also an active member of the International Studies Association, where she serves as Member-at-Large of the Human Rights Section.

  • Ph.D. - Doctor of Philosophy in Global Affairs, Rutgers University-Newark
  • M.S. - Master of Science in Global Affairs, Rutgers University-Newark
  • M.A. - Master of Arts in International Development, University of Denver
  • Graduate Certificate in International Studies: Humanitarian Assistance, University of Denver

MHSR 500 - Introduction to Human Security 

​MHSR 515 - International Law and US National Security Policy

MHSR 520 - Principles of International Conflict Resolution

MHSR 690 - Capstone for MS in Human Security and Resilience