Cecelia Lynch is Professor of Political Science and International Studies, as well as Director of International Studies at the University of California, Irvine. She is the coauthor of Strategies for Research in Constructivist IR, with Audie Klotz (M. E. Sharpe, Feb. 2007); Beyond Appeasement: Interpreting Interwar Peace Movements in World Politics (Cornell University Press, 1999); and co-editor, with Michael Loriaux, of Law and Moral Action in World Politics (University of Minnesota Press, 2000). She also edits the blog Critical Investigations into Humanitarianism in Africa. Lynch was formerly a member of the SSRC working group on religion, secularism, and international affairs.