Cynthia Weber is a Professor of International Relations at Sussex University,[1] UK, and co-Director of the media company Pato Productions.
She is also an affiliated scholar with the Graduate Program in International Affairs and the Observatory for Latin America at the New School University in New York City.
[2] She has published several internationally recognized books on topics ranging from US foreign policy and international relations to theory and film, including Simulating Sovereignty (Cambridge University Press, 1995),[3] Imagining America at War (Routledge, 2006)[4] and 'I am an American: Filming the Fear of Difference (Intellect Books, 2011).
[5][6] Her 1999 book, Faking It: American Power in the Post-Phallic Age is widely considered a classic for its use of gender-queer theory.
She writes, produces, directs, and edits films that critically engage with US identity, US citizenship, and US human rights practices.