CURRICULUM VITAE

Stephanie Nawyn

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BIOGRAPHY

Stephanie J. Nawyn is the Director at the Center for Gender in Global Context (GenCen) and 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.

As Director of the GenCen, Nawyn oversees the Women’s and Gender Studies academic programs at MSU and leads gender-focused multi-investigator projects that connect faculty across campus. She works with faculty, staff, and students at MSU and in the surrounding community to achieve greater equity on and off campus.

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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. Examining practices around social distancing, mask wearing, hand washing/sanitizing, and implementation of other practices designed to mitigate the risk of infection, the investigators seek to recommended best practices that will reduce infection risk and slow the spread of SARS-CoV-2 during refugee humanitarian interventions.

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ASSOCIATED PROGRAMS

• Center for Gender in Global Context

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PUBLICATIONS

2019   Samari, Goleen, Miles McNall, KyungSook Lee, Harry Perlstadt, and Stephanie Nawyn. “Socioeconomic Status and the Physical and Mental Health of Arab and Chaldean Americans in Michigan.” Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, 21(3):497-507.

2019   Nawyn, Stephanie J. and Julie Park. “Gendered segmented assimilation: Earnings trajectories of African immigrant women and men.” Journal of Ethnic and Racial Studies, 42(2):216-234.

2019   Zinn, Maxine B., Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette, Messner, Michael A., Nawyn, Stephanie J. (eds.) Gender Through the Prism of Difference, sixth edition. New York: Oxford University Press.

2019   Gold, Steven J. and Stephanie J. Nawyn (eds.). The Routledge International Handbook of Migration Studies, 2nd edition. London: Routledge Press.

2019   Nawyn, Stephanie J. “Refugees in the United States and the Politics of Crisis.” In C. Menjivar, M. Ruiz, and I. Ness (eds.) The Handbook of Migration Crises. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2018   Grace, Breanne, Stephanie J. Nawyn, and Betty Okwako. “The right to belong (if you can afford it): Market-based restrictions on social citizenship in refugee resettlement.” Journal of Refugee Studies, 31(1):42-62.

2016   Nawyn, Stephanie J., Nur Banu Kavakli Birdal, Tuba Demerci, and Vanja Pantic Oflazoğlu. “Human Trafficking and Migration Management in the Global South.” International Journal of Sociology, 46:189-204.

2015   Park, Julie, Stephanie J. Nawyn and Meghan Benetsky. “Feminized intergenerational mobility without assimilation?: Post-1965 immigrants and the gender revolution.” Demography, 52(5):1601-1626.

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LINKS

Google Scholar

Twitter profile

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

Center for Gender in Global Context

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