January 28, 2021 - Virtual Presentation

Featuring Dr. Kelsey P. Norman

Kelsey Norman, Ph.D., is a fellow for the Middle East at Rice University’s Baker Institute and director of the Women’s Rights, Human Rights and Refugees Program. Her book, “Reluctant Reception: Refugees, Migration, and Governance in the Middle East and North Africa,” is available from Cambridge University Press. The book is based on three years of fieldwork in Egypt, Morocco and Turkey and is adapted from her doctoral dissertation, which was chosen for the Best Dissertation award by the Migration and Citizenship section of the American Political Science Association. Her research has been published in academic journals including the European Journal of International Relations, International Studies Review, the Journal of North African Studies, International Migration Review, the International Journal of Migration and Border Studies, and the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, among others. She has also published policy-oriented articles in The Washington Post and The Atlantic, and regularly gives radio and television interviews and public lectures on topics related to her research. Additionally, she is an advisory board member of Refugees Solidarity Network in New York.