Jennifer Hyndman
Professor
Short Bio
Jennifer Hyndman is Professor in the Departments of Social Science and Geography, and is Associate Director, Research in the Centre for Refugee Studies at York.
Her research focuses on conflict and related human displacement, humanitarian emergencies, well as refugee resettlement in Canada.
Hyndman comes to York from Simon Fraser University where she received the President’s Award for Teaching Excellence in 2006. |
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Research Interests
Hyndman’s research traverses political, economic, cultural and feminist dimensions of migration, focusing on people's mobility, displacement, and security. Her scholarship is particularly concerned with the dynamics of conflict and disaster that create refugees and internally displaced persons, as well as international humanitarian responses to such crises. Recent work examines the intersection of conflict with the 2004 tsunami in Sri Lanka and Aceh, Indonesia, as well as the geopolitics of international aid in these locations. Her work also includes geographies of refugee settlement, exclusion, containment, and the production of 'securitized' space both in the Global South and in North America.
Education
| Ph.D. |
Geography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, Nov. 1996. |
| M.A. |
Sociology, Lancaster University, Lancaster, U.K., December 1989. |
| B.A. |
Sociology & English, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. June 1988. |
Professional Employment
Professor
York University |
July 2009 —
Toronto, Canada
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Adjunct Professor
Simon Fraser University |
July 2009 — August 2011
Burnaby, Canada |
Associate Professor
Simon Fraser University |
September 2002 — June 2009
Burnaby, Canada
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Professor
Syracuse University |
January 2007 — December 2008
Syracuse, USA |
Adjunct Professor
Norwegian University of Science & Technology |
August 2004 — October 2007
Trondheim, Norway |
Acting Co-Director
Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Integration in the Metropolis |
January 2004 — August 2004
Vancouver, Canada |
Assistant Professor
Simon Fraser University |
September 2000 — August 2002
Burnaby, Canada |
Assistant Professor
Arizona State University |
January 1997 — June 2000
Phoenix, USA |
SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow
York University (Canada) |
September 1996 — August 1997
Toronto, Canada |
Field Officer
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees |
March 1993 — June 1993
Bardera, Somalia |
Relief Worker
CARE International |
March 1992 — May 1992
Northern Kenya |
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