Anne is a social scientist who currently researches human security broadly construed; humanitarian emergencies, displacement and migration; the politics of aid; and social protection in fragile, conflict and violence (FCV) affected states. While her dissertation work employs qualitative and ethnographic methods, she is also partial to mixed methodologies.
She is currently supported by the LSE Studentship Funding Scheme and worked as a researcher for the World Bank on qualitative research projects examining social protection and displacement in fragile and conflict-affected states in west and central Africa. Prior to joining academia, she previously worked as a security and development researcher for US government agencies, the World Bank and the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace, and Security.
Anne obtained her master's degree from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service where she concentrated on sub-state conflict, displacement and post-conflict development. At Georgetown, she also completed a certificate in Refugees, Migration & Humanitarian Emergencies from the Institute for the Study of International Migration. In Montreal, she completed her BA Honours degree in Geography at Concordia University in 2009 and has ten years of cumulative experience in the global development and humanitarian sector.
Her current primary project aims to develop her dissertation work on host government obstruction of humanitarian aid into a book for publication in an academic press. Her future research agenda aims to further develop the literature on the politics of humanitarian aid, but also strives to address climate migration and environmental (in)security more broadly as well as topics at the security-inequality nexus in both higher-income and lower-income contexts.
Anne has native fluency in both French and English, and speaks intermediate, conversational Spanish. She also strives to learn local languages whenever given the chance – for example, achieving basic proficiency in a northern dialect of Malagasy in 2009.
Research topic
The Politics of Humanitarian Aid: How Host Governments Influence Aid Allocation & Distribution Sub-Nationally
Academic supervisor
Milli Lake
Research Cluster affliation
International Political Economy Research Cluster
Security and Statecraft Research Cluster