Georgina Ramsay (PhD, University of Newcastle, Australia, 2016) is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Delaware and an Honorary Lecturer with the Department of Anthropology at Macquarie University in Australia. Her research areas include: refugees and forced migration; Central Africa and African diaspora; citizenship and sovereignty; gender and motherhood; violence and humanitarianism; development and human rights.
Dr. Ramsay has published extensively across academic and public mediums. Her book, Impossible Refuge: The Control and Constraint of Refugee Futures, is due to be published in November 2017 (Routledge). Her research has been published in the journals Public Culture, Anthropological Quarterly, Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Social Analysis, International Migration, Australian Feminist Studies, Journal of Intercultural Studies, and Higher Education Review and Development Society of Australasia.
Experience
2017–present
Professor, University of Delaware
2017–present
Honorary Lecturer, Macquarie University
2015–2017
Research Associate, University of Newcastle
Education
2016
University of Newcastle, PhD - Sociology and Anthropology
Publications
2017
Incommensurable Futures and Displaced Lives: Sovereignty as Control Over Time, Public Culture
2017
Impossible Refuge: The Control and Constraint of Refugee Futures, Routledge
2016
Avoiding Poison: Cosmological Understandings of Urban Refugee Displacement in Uganda, Social Analysis: International Journal of Social and Cultural Practice
2016
Motherhood motivations: African Refugee Women Resettled in Australia and Return Visits to a Country of First Asylum , International Migration
2015
Return to Exile: Critical Continuities of Displacement Following Refugee Resettlement to a Third Country, Oxford Monitor of Forced Migration