Melissa Gatter

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Melissa Gatter is Assistant Professor in Anthropology and International Development at the University of Sussex. Her research examines power dynamics of forced displacement, humanitarian aid, and time in refugee camps in the Arabic-speaking world, the US, and beyond. She is the author of the award-winning book, Time and Power in Azraq Refugee Camp: A Nine-to-Five Emergency (AUC Press, 2023).

Experience

  • 2022–present
    Assistant Professor in Anthropology & International Development, University of Sussex
  • 2021–2022
    Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Sheffield

Education

  • 2020 
    University of Cambridge, PhD, Middle Eastern Studies

Publications

  • 2025
    Resilience for Whom? Resiliency Humanitarianism and Everyday Resistance in a Carceral Camp, Ethnos
  • 2023
    Time and Power in Azraq Refugee Camp: A Nine-to-Five Emergency, AUC Press
  • 2021
    Preserving Order: Narrating Resilience as Threat in Azraq Refugee Camp , Territory, Politics, Governance
  • 2020
    Thinking beyond gendered challenges: Experiences of a (female) aid worker-ethnographer in Jordan’s refugee camps, Refugee Review
  • 2018
    Rethinking the lessons from Za'tari refugee camp, Forced Migration Review
  • 2017
    Restoring childhood: Humanitarianism and growing up Syrian in Za’tari refugee camp, Contemporary Levant

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