A faculty member and a doctoral student from the Brown School have been awarded fellowships by 17³Ō¹Ļās .
Mitra Naseh, an assistant professor, has been named a . The fellowship provides a semester free from teaching and service obligations, allowing faculty to fully dedicate their time to research. Faculty Fellows engage in and lead collaborative workshops and seminars, and each is invited to present their own research and scholarship in a dedicated session.
Nasehās research focuses on the social and economic integration of minoritized and racialized groups with a migration background, with a particular focus on migration policies as social determinants of health. Her research is rooted in and guided by her previous professional work experience with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and the United Nations in the Middle East and South Asia.
Jihye Lee, a PhD student in social work, has been selected as a . This fellowship is awarded annually to three graduate students whose work advances scholarship in race, ethnicity, and equity. Fellows participate in events, workshops, and professional development opportunities, and are encouraged to share their research or creative work with their cohort and center affiliates.
āIām deeply honored to be selected for this incredible opportunity,ā Lee said. āThis fellowship will help deepen my understanding of how structural barriers affect refugee communities and support my research to inform more equitable policy solutions.ā
Leeās research focuses on how restricted migration policies shape the economic integration of forced and unauthorized migrant populations. She employs a multidimensional poverty framework and applies AI-driven methods to examine how legal status, migration policies, and racialized exclusion shape economic integration outcomes. Her work is inspired by her experiences as both a researcher and social worker, where she witnessed how exclusionary migration policies fail to account for the broader dimensions of refugeesā integration into host communities.