Reva Dhingra joins the Brookings Institution as a post-doctoral research fellow in the Foreign Policy program for the 2022-23 academic year. Her research focuses on the politics of forced migration and humanitarian responses in the Middle East and other developing states. During her appointment at Brookings, Reva will begin revising her dissertation into a book manuscript which will integrate her research in Jordan and the United States to examine the local effects of refugees, migration, and international and federal aid. She also plans to begin a project that explicitly explores the connections between U.S. and Western foreign aid, domestic resettlement and asylum policy, and the conditions of refugees and migrants in developing states.
Her other ongoing research projects include a study of U.S. and other international aid for local governance in Jordan, a co-authored examination of host community attitudes towards refugee education access in Kenya, and a co-authored analysis of post-2003 Iraq War distributive politics. Her latest work appears in the Journal of Refugee Studies, where she examines the politics of humanitarian response coordination during refugee displacement. Her recent co-authored work on the United States has examined the effects of the federal refugee resettlement program and of immigration enforcement on immigrant and local communities. Her policy writing has appeared in the Washington Post Monkey Cage, the American Prospect, Lawfare, the Middle East Report, and more. A full list of co-authors, ongoing research, and previous publications is available in her CV.
Reva will receive her doctorate in government from Harvard University in November 2022, and received a master’s in government in 2020. Prior to her graduate studies, she worked on the Syria response team at the International Rescue Committee from 2015-17, including regional travel to Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria. She was a 2014-15 Fulbright Student Research Fellow in Jordan, where she researched the politics of education provision for out-of-school Syrian refugees and Jordanians. She graduated with a bachelor’s in Middle East Studies and International Relations from Brown University in 2014.
Reva Dhingra joins the Brookings Institution as a post-doctoral research fellow in the Foreign Policy program for the 2022-23 academic year. Her research focuses on the politics of forced migration and humanitarian responses in the Middle East and other developing states. During her appointment at Brookings, Reva will begin revising her dissertation into a book manuscript which will integrate her research in Jordan and the United States to examine the local effects of refugees, migration, and international and federal aid. She also plans to begin a project that explicitly explores the connections between U.S. and Western foreign aid, domestic resettlement and asylum policy, and the conditions of refugees and migrants in developing states.
Her other ongoing research projects include a study of U.S. and other international aid for local governance in Jordan, a co-authored examination of host community attitudes towards refugee education access in Kenya, and a co-authored analysis of post-2003 Iraq War distributive politics. Her latest work appears in the Journal of Refugee Studies, where she examines the politics of humanitarian response coordination during refugee displacement. Her recent co-authored work on the United States has examined the effects of the federal refugee resettlement program and of immigration enforcement on immigrant and local communities. Her policy writing has appeared in the Washington Post Monkey Cage, the American Prospect, Lawfare, the Middle East Report, and more. A full list of co-authors, ongoing research, and previous publications is available in her CV.
Reva will receive her doctorate in government from Harvard University in November 2022, and received a master’s in government in 2020. Prior to her graduate studies, she worked on the Syria response team at the International Rescue Committee from 2015-17, including regional travel to Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria. She was a 2014-15 Fulbright Student Research Fellow in Jordan, where she researched the politics of education provision for out-of-school Syrian refugees and Jordanians. She graduated with a bachelor’s in Middle East Studies and International Relations from Brown University in 2014.
