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Dr. Jasmin Lilian Diab (she/her) is a Canadian-Lebanese writer, researcher, university professor, editor and consultant in the areas of Migration, Gender and Conflict Studies.

Dr. Diab is an Assistant Professor of Migration Studies at the Lebanese American University (LAU)’s Department of Social Sciences. In previous roles, she served as the Refugee Health Program Coordinator at the American University of Beirut (AUB)'s Global Health Institute (GHI) and a Research Associate under GHI's Political Economy of Health in Conflict Workstream. Prior to assuming her roles at AUB and LAU, she served as the Research and Project Manager of the Lebanese Research Center for Migration and Diaspora Studies at Notre Dame University-Louaize (NDU)’s Faculty of Law and Political Science, as well as the MENA Regional Focal Point on Migration of the UN General Assembly-mandated UN Major Group for Children and Youth.

She is a Senior Consultant on Refugee and Gender Studies at Cambridge Consulting Services, a Peace Responsiveness Expert at Interpeace, a Research Affiliate at the Centre for Refugee Studies at York University, a Scholar in Forced Displacement at University of Ottawa’s Human Rights Research and Education Centre, and the Lead of the Global Research Network's Gender and Migration Research Group at its 'War, Conflict and Global Migration' Think Tank.

Dr. Diab has served as an International Consultant to UN Agencies and International Humanitarian Organizations across the MENA region, and has assisted in evaluating humanitarian programming, conducting research in conflict settings, and developing strategies for organizations' interventions in hard-to-reach areas across Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and the Palestinian Territories.

She is a Country of Origin Information Expert to AMERA International's 'Rights in Exile Program,' and an Editorial Board Member at Act for Displaced, the Journal of Internal Displacement and the Journal of Applied Professional Studies at Marywood University. She also serves as an Advisory Board Member to People Beyond Borders and the Indian Society of Legal Research, and an Adjunct Faculty Member of International Migration and Refugee Law at the Global Institute of Law.

She holds a PhD in International Relations and Diplomacy with an emphasis on Asylum, Refugees and Security from the esteemed Center for Diplomatic and Strategic Studies of the School of Advanced International and Political Studies at INSEEC U. in Paris, as well as graduate degrees in Feminist Writings, Human Rights and International Law.

Jen Dickinson is a political and development geographer. Her research examines the migration/development nexus, primarily focusing on extra-territorial citizenship, diaspora engagement strategies and diaspora entrepeneurship. Grounded in feminist and postcolonial approaches that engage with the everyday practices of the state, she explores this through a focus on: diaspora diplomacy, diaspora/hometown associations, young people & intergenerationality

Cristián Doña-Reveco is the Director of the Office of Latino and Latin American Studies (OLLAS) and Associate Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at the University of Nebraska Omaha. He is also faculty affiliate with UNO's Goldstein Center for Human Rights. Originally from Chile, he earned a Bachelor's and professional degree in Sociology from Universidad de Chile, an MA in Political Sciences with a concentration in International Relations from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, and an MA in Sociology and a PhD in Sociology and History both from Michigan State University (2012). Before coming to UNO in 2015, Dr. Doña-Reveco spent two years in Santiago, Chile doing field research on North-South Migration and teaching at Universidad Diego Portales and Universidad Alberto Hurtado. He has also worked as a consultant for the International Organization for Migration and for the Population Division of United Nations' Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean.
Dr. Doña-Reveco has taught numerous courses at the undergraduate and graduate level since he began teaching at college level in 2004. Theses courses focused on Sociological Theory, Historical Sociology, Population Studies and Social Statistics, Sociological and Historical Methods, International Migration, and Contemporary Latin American History. Cristián currently teaches courses for the Latin American Studies undergraduate program and the Sociology undergraduate and graduate programs, as well as for UNO's MA in Critical and Creative Thinking, on Migration within Latin America, Sociology of Latin America, and Migration and Human Rights. Besides teaching in universities in Chile and the United States, he has also taught a course on International Migration for diplomats at Chile's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Cristián Doña-Reveco research activities are split into his personal research interests and OLLAS research program. In his research, he attempts to answer two questions. First, how do migrants construct their migration decisions in different socio-historical contexts and how these decisions influence, condition, or reflect their relation with the country of origin and the country of destination. Second, more specifically for the case of immigration to Chile, how do the processes of nation-state construction influence on the immigrant perceptions and which founding myths and ideas of national identity explain acceptance or rejection of certain immigrant groups. Besides these two themes, he reseraches migration policies in Chile and South America at the national and regional levels.
As OLLAS Director, Dr. Doña-Reveco is also in charge of the Office's research agenda. This research agenda includes a) research supporting Omaha's Latino community organizations; b) the development of the OLLAS Observatory of Latinos in Nebraska with its core projects of "Latino Presence in the Nebraska Press" and "Conversaciones"; and c) refugees in Omaha.
This research has been funded by Fulbright, Tinker, CONICYT-Chile, and by several intramural competitive fellowships and has been published at several journals such as "International Migration", the "Journal of Urban Affairs", as well as book chapters and technical reports.
Dr. Doña-Reveco is always open to receiving graduate students as research assistants--if funding is available--and as graduate advisor or committee member in his areas of expertise and in the OLLAS Observatory.

2011-2016 Ph.D. Researcher Münster University (Germany),
2010 Research Stay Universidad Guadalajara (Mexico),
2011/12 Research Stay Princeton University (USA),
2013 Research Stay UCLA (USA),
2016-2018 Postdoc Researcher FoKoS Siegen University (Germany),
2017 Guest Researcher Universidad Javeriana (Colombia),
2018 Guest Researcher Kumasi University (Ghana),
2018-2019 Lecturer Fulda University of Applied Sciences (Germany),
since 2019 Research Associate Giessen University (Germany)

Jeconiah Dreisbach is a PhD candidate in Humanities and Communication at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, specializing in critical sociolinguistics. He is part of the interdisciplinary research group Language, Culture and Identity in the Global Age (IdentiCat) and does research on the politics of multilingualism, migration, and intercultural contact.

Leonora Dugonjic-Rodwin is a senior analyst at l'Ecole normale supérieure Paris-Saclay and associate professor (docent) at Uppsala University, Sweden. She investigates social inequality in transnational contexts such as migration, internationalisation, and globalisation. She holds a PhD in sociology and a Masters in social sciences from the EHESS in Paris. She is the author of a book in French, Le privilège d’une éducation transnationale: sociologie historique du baccalauréat international (2022) and four other articles available in English language journals: International Studies in Sociology of Education (2021), Journal of Curriculum Studies (2018), UNESCO’s Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education (2015), and Paedagogica Historica (2014).

Atakan DURMAZ is an Associate Professor of Economics and Finances at Samsun University in Turkey. He holds a PhD from the Karadeniz Technical University, Department of Economics, has conducted research at Duisburg-Essen University’s Stiftung Zentrum Für Türkeistudien Und Integrationsforschung. His main academic interests include; Turkish diaspora, migration economics, low-skilled and high-skilled Migrant labours, return migration.

Durodola, Tosin Samuel is a Doctoral Researcher at the Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh, and a recipient of the prestigious Graduate School of Social and Political Science (SSPS) Scholarship. Tosin holds M.A in African Studies (Diaspora and Transnational Studies) with the highest Distinction from the Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. His Master’s dissertation emerged as one of the two winners of the global Border Criminologies Thesis Prize, organised by Routledge and University of Oxford’s Centre for Criminology. Tosin has done extensive collection, analysis, and dissemination of qualitative data on forced migration, diaspora, and refugee camps. He is a Research Fellow of the French Institute for Research in Nigeria and a Research Associate at the Reformers' Initiative for Development in Africa. He is a member of the Border Criminologies Network based at the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford. He is contributing a chapter to a forthcoming edited volume: The Palgrave Handbook of Global Social Change - Major Reference Work (2023).