CURRICULUM VITAE

Stephanie Nawyn

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BIOGRAPHY

Stephanie J. Nawyn is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at Michigan State University. Her research and teaching expertise are in migration, refugees, and gender. Nawyn was a Fulbright Fellow at the Women’s Research Center at Istanbul University from 2013-14 and was affiliated faculty with the Center for Forced Migration Studies at Northwestern University from 2011-2018. 

Nawyn has co-edited The Routledge International Handbook of Migration Studies (with Steven J. Gold) and Gender Through the Prism of Difference (with Maxine Baca Zinn, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, and Michael Messner). Her most recent articles were published in Journal of Refugees Studies, Journal of Ethnic and Racial Studies, Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, and Disaster and Emergency Medicine. Her current examines how humanitarian organizations are attempting to reduce COVID-19 infections in service provision to refugees in Turkey, Lebanon, and Jordan.

 

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CURRENT RESEARCH

Nawyn is leading a team of 24 people in the United States, Lebanon, Turkey, and Jordan to explore how refugee humanitarian interventions are impacted by COVID-19. The project uses an interdisciplinary approach that combines engineering and public health with social science principals to analyze cross-country comparative data from Turkey, Lebanon, and Jordan. Nawyn has begun a new line of research on climate change and migration, with an article in International Migration Review forthcoming in December 2024.

As part of her work leading the NSF ADVANCE project, “STEM Intersectional Equity in Departments” (SIEDS), Nawyn is working with colleagues at The Ohio State University and Wayne State University on a toolkit for creating more inclusive departmental cultures at research-intensive universities. Her team has begun collecting data on the effects of this toolkit on faculty belonging, perception of equity in assessment and workload allocation, and underrepresented faculty’s opportunities for advancement into leadership positions.

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

2024       Nawyn, Stephanie J., Ezgi Karaoglu, Natalie Qaji, and Natalynn Qaji. "Covid-19 Skepticism and Public Health Norms during Refugee Assistance: Does Skepticism Always Lead to Poor Safety Protocol Adherence?" BMC Public Health 24(881). DOI:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-024-18232-3. 
 
2024       He, Linlang, Elizabeth Kreske, Stephanie J Nawyn, Amber L Pearson, Mark Axelrod, Yadu Pokhrel, Stephen Gasteyer, Sean Lawrie, and Anthony D Kendall. “Interventions addressing conflict in communities hosting climate-influenced migrants: Literature review.” Environment and Security, 2(1):145-171. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1177/27538796231207919open_in_new. 

2024       Flaim, Amanda and Stephanie J. Nawyn. Identity Digitalization as Dispossession and Entrenched Displacement: Digitalization at the Nexus of Migration 'Management' and Climate Change in Thailand and Türkiye. Frontiers in Human Dynamics: Refugees and Conflict, 5: January 11. doi.org/10.3389/fhumd.2023.1227255 
 
2023       Elitok, Seçil Paçaci, and Stephanie J. Nawyn. The re-domestication of high-skilled immigrant women: modifying career ambitions post-migration. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 49(19):4946-4963. DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2023.2189075. 
 
2023       Karaoglu, Ezgi, Stephanie J. Nawyn, Natalynn Qaji, Natalie Qaji, Ayat Nashwan, and Stephen Gasteyer. Refugee COVID-19 Protocol Adherence and NGO Staff Perceptions: Paternalism and Power in Humanitarian Assistance. Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 8(10):1-12. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1186/s41018-023-00141-6. 

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LINKS

Google Scholar

Blog: “Making a Place to Call Home: Seeking a More Inclusive World for International Migrants”

“Minimizing COVID-19 Spread in Refugee Humanitarian Interventions”

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