Dr. Linn Biörklund has won the CFR's 2023-2024 Mary McEwan Memorial Dissertation Award for her dissertation titled Moving, Waiting, Searching Across Borders: Gendered Geographies of Violence, Disappearance, and Contestation in Southern Mexico.
Dr. Linn Biörklund is a Research Associate at the Centre for Refugee Studies at York University. In September 2025, she will begin a SSHRC-funded postdoctoral research project at the University of Barcelona, Spain. Her research bridges political geography, critical border studies, and transnational feminism to redefine violence, bordering practices, geopolitical economies, and protection along migratory routes and in spaces of waiting. She has extensive experience working with social justice movements and humanitarian NGOs.
Read more about Dr. Biörklund and her dissertation at this link: https://www.yorku.ca/cfr/mary-mcewan-memorial-award/