I am a social scientist who currently researches human security broadly construed; humanitarian emergencies, displacement and migration; the politics of aid; and social protection in fragile, conflict and violence (FCV) affected states. While my dissertation work employs qualitative and ethnographic methods, I am also partial to mixed methodologies.
I am currently supported by the LSE Studentship Funding Scheme and worked as a researcher for the World Bank on qualitative research projects examining social protection and displacement in fragile and conflict-affected states in west and central Africa. Prior to joining academia, I also previously worked as an analyst and researcher of security and development issues for US government agencies, the World Bank and the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace, and Security.
I completed my master’s degree from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service where I concentrated on sub-state conflict, displacement and post-conflict development. She also completed a certificate in Refugees, Migration & Humanitarian Emergencies from the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown. In Montreal, I obtained a BA Honours degree in Geography at Concordia University in 2009 and have ten years of cumulative experience in the global development and humanitarian sector.
My current primary project aims to develop my dissertation work on host government obstruction of humanitarian aid into a book for publication in an academic press. My future research agenda aims to address climate migration and adaptation, climate and (in)security more broadly, as well as issues at the security-inequality nexus.
Anne has native fluency in both French and English, and speaks intermediate, conversational Spanish. She also strives to learn local languages whenever given the chance, where, for example, she achieved basic proficiency in a northern dialect of Malagasy while conducting ocean conservation research on marine megafauna and fisheries in Madagascar in 2009. She is currently permitted to work in the United States, United Kingdom and the European Union.