Professor of Political Science, Altenbernd Family Faculty Fellow
Syracuse University

Audie Klotz is a Professor of Political Science and Inaugural Altenbernd Family Faculty Fellow (2025-2028) in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. She previously served on the faculty at the University of Illinois, Chicago, and she was a Fulbright Fellow at Stellenbosch University, among other visiting positions.

Klotz works at the intersection of international relations theory, qualitative methods, transnational activism, global migration, and identity politics, with an overarching emphasis on race. She specializes in the Southern African region and more broadly the former British Empire. Her first book, Norms in International Relations: The Struggle against Apartheid (Cornell 1995), won the Furniss award in security studies and is now in its second edition (Cornell 2025). Migration and National Identity in South Africa, 1860-2010 (Cambridge 2013) compares South Africa to Australia and Canada. Research Strategies for Constructivist International Relations (2007), coauthored with Cecelia Lynch, has been translated into Korean (Kyung Hee University Press 2011). She also co-edited two books, How Sanctions Work: Lessons from South Africa (1999) and Qualitative Methods in International Relations (2008). Her articles have appeared in International Organization, Review of International Studies, European Journal of International Relations, Security Dialogue, and Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, among other journals, along with numerous chapters in edited collections.

The International Studies Association has bestowed three career honors: the Tickner Award (2014) for innovative scholarship, the Distinguished Scholar Award of the Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Migration section (2018) and the Distinguished Scholar Award of the International Organization section (2020). Klotz cofounded the Society for Women in International Political Economy, which subsequently folded into the International Political Economy section. A former Vice President, she has served on numerous ISA committees, including chair of Professional Rights and Responsibilities.