Molly Fee
Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow in Sociology, Nuffield College, University of Oxford
Molly Fee is a Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow in Sociology at Nuffield College, University of Oxford. In Fall 2025, she will be an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Interdisciplinary Social Sciences at the University of South Florida. She received her PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Her interests include social and economic inequality, international migration, forced migration, organizations, the welfare state, and qualitative methods. In particular, Molly studies how organizational structure and policies shape the migration and incorporation of refugees in the United States and how refugees interact with the institutions that grant rights and resources. Her research has been published in outlets such as Social Problems, Ethnic and Racial Studies, and the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, and she has co-edited special issues of Refugee Survey Quarterly and Ethnic and Racial Studies. Her book, Believing in Light after Darkness (under contract with University of California Press), draws on ethnographic fieldwork in a refugee resettlement agency in two U.S. cities to demonstrate how the displacement of forced migration extends through the initial resettlement phase, offering a paradigm shift for how we think about the early stages of a refugee's resettlement.
Website: www.mollyfee.com