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Biography

Georgina Ramsay,ÌýPh.D., is an associate professor with the Department of Anthropology at the 91Ô­´´. She is a cultural anthropologist specializing in political and legal anthropology.

Ramsay's work focuses on the overarching question: What does it mean to be displaced in a world where precarity and instability increasingly seem to be the norm? Her research areas include refugees, citizenship and sovereignty, humanitarianism and human rights, exploitation and extractivism, homelessness and economic insecurity.

Her work aims to contextualize the movement of forced migrants worldwide within shared frames of experience and global complicity, thinking through how contemporary experiences of displacement reflect and reinforce long-standing structures of inequality and call into question collective futures of prosperity. Ramsay has conducted fieldwork with refugees in Australia, Uganda,Ìýand the United States, with internally displaced people in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and with people experiencing homelessness in the United States.

Ramsay is author ofÌýÌý(Routledge, 2018). She has published widely in academic journals, including Humanity, Anthropological Theory, Critique of Anthropology, Public Culture, Anthropological Quarterly, Political and Legal Anthropology Review,ÌýandÌýSocial Analysis,Ìýamong others. Her writing has also been published in public media outlets, includingÌýSlate, The Conversation,ÌýandÌýNew Matilda. Her article, “Election Fact Check: Are Many Refugees Illiterate and Innumerate?" was selected for inclusion inÌýThe Conversation Yearbook 2016: 50 Standout Articles from Australia's Top Thinkers.

With climate change, political instabilityÌýand economic precarity continuing to destabilize life around the globe, Ramsay's ongoing research continues to focus on displacement as a lens through which to link localized experiences of instability to the collective stakes of our global future. A migrant within the UnitedÌýStates herself, Ramsay is committed to making the world—and her local community—more safe, welcoming,Ìýand receptive to all humans, regardless of their legal, political, social,Ìýand economic backgrounds.

Dr. Ramsay is an affiliate faculty member in the Department of Geography and Spatial Sciences at 91Ô­´´. She is co-editor ofÌýÌýand a board member of theÌý.​

Work Samples

• Publicly accessible samples of her work include the following:
  

Select Publications

• 2022. “."ÌýEnvironment and Planning D: Society and Space.Ìý
• 2020. “."ÌýAnthropological Theory.Ìý
• 2020. “."ÌýCritique of Anthropology.Ìý
• 2017. “."ÌýPublic Culture.​