Noora Lori

Noora Lori is an Associate Professor of International Relations at the Pardee School of Global Studies. Her research broadly focuses on citizenship, migration, and statelessness. She is interested in temporal strategies of migration enforcement and has written about citizenship regimes and naturalization policies, temporary migration schemes, and racial hierarchies in comparative perspective. Regionally, her work examines the shifting population movements accompanying state formation in the Persian Gulf, expanding the study of Middle East politics to include historic and new connections with East Africa and the Indian subcontinent.

She has published in International Migration Review, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Journal of Global Security Studies, Ethnic and Racial Studies, International Relations, the Oxford Handbook on Citizenship, The Shifting Border, among other journals and edited volumes. Her research has been funded by the ACLS/Mellon Foundation, the ZEIT-Stiftung “Settling into Motion” Fellowship, the Hariri Institute for Computing and Computer Engineering (BU), the Initiative on Cities (BU) (2016; 2019), as well as other grants.

Lori co-directs the Pardee School Initiative on Forced Migration and Human Trafficking with Professor Kaija Schilde. She serves on the steering committee of the Inter-University Committee for International Migration (at MIT), the steering committee of Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS), the advisory board of the “Beyond Borders fellowship” at ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius, and the advisory board of the International Politics of Mobility Sanctions (MOBSANCT) at European Research Council/ University of Glasgow, among other committees.