Ph.D. Candidate
Cat is a Ph.D. candidate in the Political Science Department at Boston University. Her research interests lie within international relations and comparative politics. Her research broadly focuses on migration, identity, gender, and human security, with a regional focus on the Middle East. She is currently working on her dissertation titled, “Mobilized Networks: Lebanese Diaspora and their Grassroots Efforts to Mobilize Resources for Lebanon.”
She was the former Sawyer Seminar Graduate Fellow at the Center on Forced Displacement between 2023-2024 and she was the former Co-Chair of the Forced Migration and Human trafficking Initiative at the Pardee School of Global Studies and the Graduate Coordinator of the Citizenship Hub from 2021-2023. She was a research assistant for Brown University’s Costs of War Project in the summer of 2021 and conducted research on the politics of gender and war in Afghanistan.
She joined the program in the fall of 2020 after receiving her B.A. in Political Science International Relations and a double minor in Arabic Studies and Writing from the University of Massachusetts-Lowell in the spring of 2020. Between 2018 and 2019 she worked as Volunteer Coordinator and Student Curriculum Supervisor at SayDaNar Community Development Center, a non-profit organization in Lowell, MA that works with refugees from Myanmar. She spent the summer of 2019 volunteering as a teaching assistant at SayDaNar’s citizenship class.
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