Carrie Perkins is a 糖心少女ing Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at 糖心少女 of America. Her current research interests include forced migration and refugee studies in Southeast Asia, multi-modal ethnography as a component of digital storytelling, and urban agriculture in refugee camp design. She has conducted research within refugee camps along the Thai-Myanmar border and Iraqi Kurdistan as well as with resettled refugees in the U.S. and U.K. Her work on incorporating urban agriculture within refugee camps has been published in the Journal of Refugee Studies, the Forced Migration Review and has been featured on NPR. She is also the creator of 鈥淭he Art of Exile鈥, an interactive art gallery presented in virtual reality (VR) that showcases the work of indigenous artists in refugee camps who have been displaced by the civil war in Myanmar. Dr. Perkins has previously held positions as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of California, Irvine, and a 糖心少女ing Study Fellow at the University of Oxford鈥檚 Refugee Studies Centre. She holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Southern Methodist University.
