In
a time of international turmoil, it is not surprising that Associate Professor
of Government Claudena Skran regularly finds herself being sought out for
informed analysis and commentary on Iraq, Afganistan and the war on terror,
or the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In March, for example, she spoke to
a Lunch at Lawrence audience on the subject “Iraq, One Year Later:
A Retrospective and Look Ahead,” and the previous June discussed the
history of refugees and the legal status of Palestinian refugees on the Todd
Feinburg Show, a nationally syndicated talk radio program aired on more than
40 radio stations nationwide. A scholar of international affairs, whose research
focuses on the role of international organizations in providing emergency
relief and the resettlement of refugees, she is the author of Refugees
in Interwar Europe: The Emergence of a Regime, published by Oxford University
Press. Her recent publications include an article, “Collateral Damage
from the War on Terror: Why the U.S. Needs to Rethink Policy Toward Refugees
and International Students,” in The Executive Times and a
chapter, “New
Paradigms in Refugee Assistance,” that will appear in Nitza Nachmias’s
and Rami Goldstein’s forthcoming International Politics of Forced
Migration. Current plans are for using an upcoming sabbatical next
fall to travel to Freetown, Sierra Leone, to conduct research on the role
of non-governmental
organizations in the resettlement of refugees from the civil war that has
consumed that country. Pictured with Professor Skran are, from left, Aditi
Hate, ’05,
Bill Dalsen, ’05, and Anthony Foli, ’06.