Alexandra Greene holds a Master of Arts in Gender Studies, a Graduate Diploma in Communication and Media Studies, and a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in English Literature and Philosophy. For her MA thesis, she drew upon ethnographic fieldwork completed at a refugee camp in Greece, in order to explore the affective, digital practices of refugee women waiting to travel onwards. Her research interests include gender, media, migration, agency, emotionality, social justice, solidarity, and research-creation.
In January 2019, she started her PhD in Sociology at VU Amsterdam under the supervision of prof. dr. Halleh Ghorashi as part of the Refugee Academy’s project on Engaged Scholarship. Her research explores the cooperation between academia and society in the United States in promoting the social inclusion of refugees.
‘As someone who believes that academia can and should play a role in social justice, I believe it is not only productive but ethically imperative to treat research as an opportunity to build linkages between academic communities and communities that exist outside of the academy, particularly communities most heavily impacted by systemic inequalities.‘
