Veronica Fynn Bruey
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Veronica Fynn Bruey has over 25 years of research and teaching experience in some 30 countries. Dr Fynn Bruey holds six degrees: PhD (ANU), LLB (Hons) (London), LLM (Osgoode), MPH (Nottingham), BA (UBC), and BSc (Hons) (Ghana). She has authored five books, several book chapters, and journal articles. Her research is focused on Transnational Indigeneity, Patriarchy, and Displacement (t-IDP). Currently, she is an assistant professor of legal studies at Athabasca University; part-time lecturer at the University of Alberta; Director of Flowers University Global Health Science; faculty affiliate at Seattle University School of Law; and research affiliate at University of London’s Refugee Law Initiative. She’s held academic positions at the University of Washington, the University of Cape Coast, the University of London, the Australian National University, Georgetown University, the University of Witwatersrand, York University, and the University of British Columbia. Dr Fynn Bruey is the president of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration; founder/editor-in-chief of the Journal of Internal Displacement; co-lead of the Law and Society’s Collaborative Research Network-11: “Displaced Peoples”; lead of the Law and Society Association’s International Research Collaborative: “Disrupting Patriarchy and Masculinity in Africa”, co-Chair of the Africa Interest Group of the American Society of International Law, and the founder of the “Voice of West African Refugees” at the Buduburam Refugee Settlement in Ghana. Dr Fynn Bruey recently completed an Africa-Oxford Fellowship (2023-24); is a recipient of the Canadian Association of African Studies’ Pius Adesanmi Early Career Research Excellence Award 2024; Confederation of Alberta Faculty Association’s Distinguished Academic Early Career Award (2023); an Action Canada Fellow (2022-23); and the Australian National University International Alumna of the Year, 2021. She supervises and mentors some 40 students around the globe. Dr Fynn Bruey is an Indigenous Liberian war survivor and a global migrant.