Dr. Megan Bradley is a LERRN Co-Investigator and associate professor of political science and international development studies at McGill University, where she is a William Dawson Scholar. Her research and teaching focus on refugees, human rights, humanitarianism, transitional justice, disasters, and gender. She is the author of Refugee Repatriation: Justice, Responsibility and Redress (Cambridge University Press, 2013) and The International Organization for Migration: Commitments, Challenges, Complexities (Routledge, 2020), editor of Forced Migration, Reconciliation and Justice (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2015), and co-editor (with James Milner and Blair Peruniak) of Refugees’ Roles in Resolving Displacement and Building Peace: Beyond Beneficiaries. Her research has also appeared in journals such as the Review of International Studies, Ethics and International Affairs, the International Journal of Transitional Justice, the Journal of Refugee Studies and the International Journal of Refugee Law. She also coordinates the McGill Refugee Research Group. Along with James Milner, Megan co-edits the McGill-Queen’s University Press (MQUP) Refugee and Forced Migration Studies Series.
Alongside her research and teaching, Megan has worked with a range of organizations concerned with humanitarianism, human rights and development. From 2012-2014, she was a Fellow in the Foreign Policy Program at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC, where she was part of the Brookings Project on Internal Displacement. She has also worked with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and served as the Cadieux-Léger Fellow in the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade.