Mitra Naseh is a forced migration scholar and an Assistant Professor at the Brown School, Washington University in St. Louis, where she also serves as the Founding Director of the Forced Migration Initiative (FMI). Her research focuses on the multidimensional social and economic integration of forcibly displaced populations, shaped by her interdisciplinary academic training, lived experience as an immigrant, and extensive fieldwork with non-governmental organizations and United Nations agencies, particularly in the Middle East and South Asia.
Naseh will be visiting the Center for Poverty & Inequality Research at UC Davis.