We are pleased to offer a very warm welcome to our Visiting Fellows for Michaelmas term 2024.
This term our Visiting Fellows are:
Dr Synne L Dyvik is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) interested in the gendered and racialised embodiment of international relations, development, war, refugee governance and humanitarianism. She is currently working on a co-authored monograph (with Dr Gabrielle Daoust at UNBC, Canada) entitled Humanitarianism in the Home: Private Refugee Hosting and the Politics of Hospitality (Forthcoming Routledge). Her most recent article is entitled ‘Homes For Ukraine’ and the politics of private humanitarian hospitality (Forthcoming Review of International Studies). Read more
Hanna Geschewski is a fourth-year doctoral researcher in Human Geography based at the Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) and the University of Bergen in Norway. Her research focuses on the social-environmental dimensions of long-term displacement, particularly in the case of Tibetan refugees in rural South India and Nepal. Using primarily qualitative methods, she examines transformations in agriculture, cultivation, human-land relations and rural livelihoods among Tibetan refugees over the past six decades. Hanna holds an MSc in Environmental and Sustainability Studies from Lund University, Sweden, and a BSc (Honours) in Environmental Science from Kathmandu University, Nepal. Read more
Lidia Guardiola Alonso is a PhD student in the Advanced Studies in Human Rights program at the Carlos III University of Madrid. She also has a degree in international relations, a master’s degree in advanced studies in human rights, a specialist degree in equality policy management, and is studying for a degree in law. She has developed as an independent researcher on issues of Human Rights, gender perspective, studies of North Africa and the Middle East and violence against women, among others. Currently, she is working at the Spanish Commission for Refugees (CEAR). Read more
Dario Mazzola holds a BA and MA in Philosophy from the University of Pavia and a PhD in Philosophy and Human Sciences from the University of Milan. Mazzola is currently concluding an FNS-funded research project on “Inter-state trust over asylum policies” at the University of Geneva, where he is also a lecturer, and he teaches the course on “Ethics and international affairs” at The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies. Besides having published a book and a dozen articles on a variety of subjects in social and political theory and philosophy, Mazzola specializes in the theory, ethics, and politics of migration and asylum. Read more
Thomas McGee is completing his PhD on ‘Syria’s Changing Statelessness Landscape - 2011 as Critical Juncture: Protracted Situations and “Ticking Time Bombs”’ at Melbourne Law School’s Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness. He holds a BA in Modern and Medieval Languages from the University of Cambridge and MA in Kurdish Studies from the University of Exeter. Speaking Arabic and Kurdish, Thomas is the MENA Regional Coordinator at the Global Citizenship Observatory (GLOBALCIT) through the European University Institute. He has also worked for UNHCR, and various humanitarian and development organisations. Read more
Kate Motluk is a PhD Candidate in Geography at the University of Toronto. Her research primarily focuses on issues of forced migration and carceral control. Kate received her undergraduate degree from Trinity College at the University of Toronto in Peace, Conflict, and Justice Studies. She went on to do an MA in Geography at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Canada. Her thesis, Containment and COVID-19 in the Settler State, examined responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in carceral spaces around Canada and Australia. Prior to attending graduate school, Kate worked as the Toronto Chapter Lead for a pro-bono refugee legal clinic, and as a Project Coordinator for the non-profit Lifeline Syria. Kate is currently a researcher on two SSHRC-funded projects. Read more
Ruben Wissing is a postdoctoral researcher at the Migration Law Research Group (MigrLaw) of Ghent University, Belgium, affiliated with both the Human Rights Centre (HRC) and the Centre for the Social Study of Migration and Refugees (CESSMIR). He is also connected to the Refugee Law Initiative (RLI) at the University of London. In 2022, he completed his PhD, focusing on refugee protection in Morocco through a multidisciplinary lens. Ruben’s research explores the legal, policy, and practical applications of core principles in the international refugee protection regime – such as non-refoulement, solidarity, asylum and human rights. Read more