Renée Marlin-Bennett is professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Her research focuses the nature of political power, flows of information, bodies and emotions, and borders. She currently explores these themes as they play out in social media, art and everyday aesthetic encounters, internet governance, and cyber security broadly understood. In addition to articles on these subjects published in scholarly journals, she has authored, edited, or co-edited four books. She served as the inaugural editor-in-chief of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies, a joint publication of Oxford University Press and the International Studies Association, from 2017 to 2019. Marlin-Bennett received her BA from Pomona College and her PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prior to her appointment at Johns Hopkins, she was professor of international relations and director of the Division of International Politics and Foreign Policy, School of International Service, American University.