{"id":11595,"date":"2026-01-21T19:59:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/?post_type=cu-people&#038;p=11595"},"modified":"2026-02-23T20:31:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T01:31:21","slug":"veronica-fynn-bruey","status":"publish","type":"cu-people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/people\/veronica-fynn-bruey\/","title":{"rendered":"Veronica Fynn Bruey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"\">\n\t<p>\n\t\t<a class=\"button__red button__red--outline\" href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=hDbMlkkAAAAJ&#038;hl=en%20\" target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Scholar<\/a>\n\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Veronica Fynn Bruey has over 25 years of research and teaching experience in some 30\u00a0<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">countries. Dr Fynn Bruey holds six degrees: PhD (ANU), LLB (Hons) (London), LLM\u00a0<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">(Osgoode), MPH (Nottingham), BA (UBC), and BSc (Hons) (Ghana). She has authored five\u00a0<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">books, several book chapters, and journal articles. Her research is focused on Transnational\u00a0<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Indigeneity, Patriarchy, and Displacement (t-IDP). Currently, she is an assistant professor of\u00a0<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">legal studies at Athabasca University; part-time lecturer at the University of Alberta; Director of\u00a0<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Flowers University Global Health Science; faculty affiliate at Seattle University School of Law;\u00a0<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">and research affiliate at University of London\u2019s Refugee Law Initiative. She\u2019s held academic\u00a0<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">positions at the University of Washington, the University of Cape Coast, the University of\u00a0<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">London, the Australian National University, Georgetown University, the University of\u00a0<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Witwatersrand, York University, and the University of British Columbia. Dr Fynn Bruey is the\u00a0<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">president of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration; founder\/editor-in-<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">chief of the Journal of Internal Displacement; co-lead of the Law and Society\u2019s Collaborative\u00a0<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Research Network-11: \u201cDisplaced Peoples\u201d; lead of the Law and Society Association\u2019s\u00a0<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">International Research Collaborative: \u201cDisrupting Patriarchy and Masculinity in Africa\u201d, co-<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Chair of the Africa Interest Group of the American Society of International Law, and the founder\u00a0<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">of the \u201cVoice of West African Refugees\u201d at the Buduburam Refugee Settlement in Ghana. Dr\u00a0<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Fynn Bruey recently completed an Africa-Oxford Fellowship (2023-24); is a recipient of the\u00a0<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Canadian Association of African Studies\u2019 Pius Adesanmi Early Career Research Excellence\u00a0<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Award 2024; Confederation of Alberta Faculty Association\u2019s Distinguished Academic Early\u00a0<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Career Award (2023); an Action Canada Fellow (2022-23); and the Australian National\u00a0<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">University International Alumna of the Year, 2021. She supervises and mentors some 40\u00a0<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">students around the globe. Dr Fynn Bruey is an Indigenous Liberian war survivor and a global\u00a0<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">migrant.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"people-type":[516,549,542,526,509,506],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Veronica Fynn Bruey - LERRN: The Local Engagement Refugee Research Network<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/people\/veronica-fynn-bruey\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/people\/veronica-fynn-bruey\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/people\/veronica-fynn-bruey\/\",\"name\":\"Veronica Fynn Bruey - 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