Cemile Gizem Dincer
Cemile Gizem Dincer is a feminist sociologist, organizer, and researcher working at the intersections of gender and migration. For more than ten years, she has worked on various research projects on migration, borders, women’s labor, asylum, and gender and has been a member of different migrant solidarity and feminist groups. She received her PhD in […]
Selma Hedlund
Selma Hedlund is a postdoctoral associate at CFD. She holds a PhD in Sociology from Boston University and advocates for participatory inquiries and research methods that inform social change. Selma’s research interests mainly concern migration, immigration policy, and immigrant incorporation, often in relation to health. Her scholarship draws parallels between refugees’ and Indigenous peoples’ experiences […]
Yanina Nahum
Yanina Nahum is a postdoctoral researcher at the CFD and the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Boston University. She earned her Ph.D in Environmental Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, specializing in wastewater research and biomedical applications, including treatment processes, contaminant removal, and the spread of antimicrobial resistance. She is interested in the connection […]
Micah Trautmann
Micah Trautmann is a political philosopher whose research focuses on normative questions about displacement, migration, and territory. His work draws on philosophical insights into the way our environment shapes various aspects of our agency and well-being in order to identify and articulate a set of under-recognized harms in the contemporary landscape of forced displacement — […]