Barbara Harrell-Bond

Dr Barbara Harrell-Bond OBE is a leading figure in the field of refugee studies. She founded the Refugee Studies Center at Oxford University, the world's first institution for the study of refugees. It now hosts an annual lecture series in her name. She has also founded or helped to found refugee legal aid organizations in several locations, including the Refugee Law Project in Uganda and AMERA (Africa and Middle East Refugee Assistance) in Egypt. In 2005, Harrell-Bond was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for her contributions to refugee studies.

Harrell-Bond was born and raised in South Dakota, and earned her undergraduate degree in music at Asbury College in Kentucky. After earning an M.Litt. and a D.Phil. in social anthropology from Oxford, she spent a number of years with the American Universities Field Staff in West Africa. She has been Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Forced Migration and Refugee Studies Program at the American University in Cairo since 2000. Previously, she has taught at Leiden University, Makerere University, the University of Edinburgh, and the University of Warwick.

Books

*"Modern Marriage in Sierra Leone" (1975)
*"Community Leadership and the Transformation of Freetown" (1978)
*"4 June: A Revolution Betrayed" (1982, as Barbara E. Okeke)
*"Imposing Aid: Emergency Assistance to Refugees" (1986)
*"Rights in Exile: Janus-Faced Humanitarianism" (2005, with Guglielmo Verdirame)

External links

* [http://www.aucegypt.edu/ResearchatAUC/rc/fmrs/facstaff/Pages/BarbaraHarrell-Bond.aspx AUC faculty page]
* [http://www.thedailynewsegypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=1446 Article on Barbara Harrell-Bond being awarded the OBE]
* [http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/659/profile.htm Profile from 2003]