Peace Adzo Medie is a scholar and writer. She is Senior Lecturer in Gender and International Politics at the University of Bristol. Her research addresses gender, politics, and conflict in Africa. Her book, Global Norms and Local Action: The Campaigns to End Violence against Women in Africa, will be published in March 2020 by Oxford University Press. Her debut novel, His Only Wife, will be published in September 2020 by Algonquin Books.  Medie’s research has been supported by grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, and the Social Science Research Council, and her findings have been published in African Affairs, International Studies Review, Politics & Gender, and the European Journal of Politics and Gender. Her work has won several awards, including the 2019 Best Paper Award of the European Journal of Politics and Gender and she is a co-editor of African Affairs, the top-ranked African Studies journal. She is also a Research Fellow at LECIAD, University of Ghana, and a 2015 - 2017  Oxford-Princeton Global Leaders Fellow.