Christina Rowley is a visiting fellow in international studies at Brown University and Director of the Eisenhower Research Project, an international scholarly initiative dedicated to studying the relationship between military institutions, military values, and democracy in US society and foreign policy. Her specialties include representations of conflict, militarization and US foreign policy (particularly the Vietnam War); gender (with a focus on militarized masculinities); popular and visual cultures (including film, television and other electronic media).

She has published in the British Journal of Politics and International Relations and the International Feminist Journal of Politics, among others. She is the author of "Popular Culture and the Politics of the Visual" in Laura Shepherd (ed) Gender Matters in World Politics, (Routledge, 2009) and co-author (with Jutta Weldes) of "Identities and Foreign Policy" in Mick Cox and Doug Stokes (eds) US Foreign Policy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008). Rowley is completing her doctoral thesis, which examines the intertextuality of Vietnam War films and US presidential speeches from the last 30 years, in the Department of Politics at the University of Bristol. She holds an MA in international studies from the Institute for Politics and International Studies (POLIS) at the University of Leeds and a BA (joint honors) in politics and geography, also from the University of Leeds.