Call for Applications – Post-Doctoral Fellow (Sawyer Seminar)
Boston University, Center on Forced Displacement Accepting Applications for a Post-Doctoral Fellow Boston University’s Center on Forced Displacement (CFD; www.bu.edu/cfd) invites applications for a one-year post-doctoral scholar position supporting a seminar on EU and US Border Regimes as they impact migrants and asylum seekers traveling through Central America and the Balkan states. The CFD […]
Call for Applications – Post-Doctoral Fellow
Boston University, Center on Forced Displacement Accepting Applications for a Post-Doctoral Fellow Boston University’s Center on Forced Displacement (CFD; www.bu.edu/cfd) invites applications for a two-year post-doctoral scholar position developing new projects with a focus on migrants and displaced people in or traveling through Turkey and the Balkans. The CFD Post-doctoral Fellow will have […]
Call For Applications – STEM Postdoctoral Associate Position
The Center on Forced Displacement (CFD; www.bu.edu/cfd ) at Boston University is seeking a postdoctoral associate for a unique opportunity at the interface of science, public health, policy and forced displacement. The post-doctoral associate will conduct original research at the interface of disease dynamics, forced displacement and access to care among refugees, internally displaced and […]
Addressing Challenges of Forced Displacement through STEM Education: Collaborative Initiative With National Academies
Engineering a Holistic Response to the Global Crisis of Forced Displacement
The Center on Forced Displacement Announces CFD Annual Conference Keynote Speaker: Nobel Laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah
The Center on Forced Displacement is excited to announce that the keynote speaker for the inaugural CFD Annual Conference is Nobel Laureate, Abdulrazak Gurnah. Gurnah is the celebrated author of novels, as well as critical studies of postcolonial literature. He grew up on the island of Zanzibar but was forcibly displaced when, in the 1960s, the […]
Call for Applications – Summer Program on Forced Migration and Borders
Center on Forced Displacement (CFD) opens a call for applications for its first Summer Program on Forced Migration and Borders to be held July 17 – 29, 2023 in Belgrade, Serbia. Program Background and Objectives Long before the beginning of the migration “crisis” in 2015, the US and the European Union began working on establishing […]
CFD Awarded 2023 Seed Grants
Center on Forced Displacement team is delighted to share that our committee has selected five projects to be awarded inaugural CFD seed grants. The Center supports research and engagement with forced displacement and humanitarian emergencies that is truly interdisciplinary and of the highest scholarly and ethical standards. CFD is interested in new ideas, technologies, scholarship, […]
BU Center for Innovation in Social Science discuss CFD with Professors Zaman and Preston
CFD’s directors, Professor Zaman and Professor Preston talks about their vision for the Center on Forced Displacement in an interview with Boston University’s Center for Innovation in Social Science. Learn more about Professors Zaman and Preston in a Q&A interview with CISS communications intern Lily Belisle. Read the full article here.
Preston and Zaman Speak on Panel on Forced Displacement Crisis
Carrie Preston and Muhammad Zaman, Faculty Research Fellows at the Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and co-founders of the new University-wide Center on Forced Displacement (CFD), recently participated in a panel discussion on forced displacement. The event, which was hosted by Boston University Global Programs as part of its 2022 International Education Week, featured an interdisciplinary panel […]