Julia Morris,
Visiting Assistant Professor of Politics
Office Location: Steele 117
Personal Website: http://www.juliacmorris.com
Academic History
- D.Phil. Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford
- M.Mus. Ethnomusicology, School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London
- B.Mus. Music, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Academic Focus
Dr. Morris' research focuses on forced migration, humanitarianism, and border work. She has published widely and is the author of Asylum and Extraction in the Republic of Nauru (2023) with Cornell University Press. Her next book project, Asylum Frontiers: The Politics of Outsourcing Borders, brings together her fieldwork across places of extraterritorialized asylum.
Dr. Morris has been involved with several migrant and refugee rights organizations, including Grassroots Leadership and Detention Action. She also focuses her work on developing creative approaches that envisage radical ways of being, moving and making shared worlds together. This includes psychogeographies walking projects based on long-standing practices of deepening relationships to the land.
Dr. Morris is visiting Scripps College for the 2025/6 academic year from her position as Associate Professor of International Studies at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.