Sarah Nandi

PhD Researcher, Political Science, McGill University

Expert on sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) in forced migration situations and qualitative research methods with extensive experience in localized Syrian and Rohingya responses in Jordan and Bangladesh. Ongoing work as a gender equality advisor with government and organizational actors. Before coming to McGill, read for an MSc in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies at Worcester College, Oxford with research on humanitarian development and localized Sahrawi feminist organizing. Prior to this, selected as a Fulbright-Nehru research scholar in Kolkata, India focusing on the refusal of rehabilitation programs by transgender refugee survivors of sexual violence. Proficient in Bengali, Arabic, and French.

Experience

–present

PhD Researcher, McGill University

Education

McGill University, Department of Political Science, PhD
2018

University of Oxford, MSc

Publications

2022

Introduction: LGBTIQ+ Refugees Virtual Issue, Journal of Refugee Studies
2019

Chapter 8: Rethinking Saharan studies as a discipline, Historians Without Borders
2018

Le convoyeur vers nulle part, Afrique Contemporain

Professional Memberships

International Humanitarian Studies Association