Selma Hedlund

Selma Hedlund is a postdoctoral associate at CFD. She holds a PhD in Sociology from Boston University and advocates for participatory inquiries and research methods that inform social change. Selma’s research interests mainly concern migration, immigration policy, and immigrant incorporation, often in relation to health. Her scholarship draws parallels between refugees’ and Indigenous peoples’ experiences with forced displacement. Her latest publication, Medicines at Standing Rock, was published in American Indian Culture and Research Journal in 2020. Prior to her PhD program and joining CFD, Selma worked as a community organizer in refugee integration in Sweden during the height of the Syrian civil war. She earned an MA in Sociology from Columbia University as a Fulbright Scholar and a BA in Human Rights Studies from Lund University.