Hilary Matfess

Hilary Matfess is an assistant professor at the Josef Korbel School of Global and Public Affairs at the University of Denver. She is also a Council on Foreign Relations term fellow and a research fellow at the Research on International Policy Implementation Lab. Her most recent books are “After Liberation: Women and the Politics of Expectations in Rebel to Party Transitions” (Stanford University Press, 2026) and “Putting Women in Their Place: Gender, Power, and World Politics” (DeGruyter, 2025).