Dr Laura Hammond
BA (Sarah Lawrence); MA, PhD (Wisconsin)
Overview
Department of Development Studies
Senior Lecturer in Development Studies
Centre for the International Politics of Conflict, Rights and Justice
Member, Centre for the International Politics of Conflict, Rights and Justice
SOAS Food Studies Centre
Member, SOAS Food Studies Centre
Centre for Gender Studies
Member, Centre for Gender Studies
Migration, Mobility and Development Research Cluster
Research Cluster Convenor
Violence, Peace and Development Research Cluster
Research Cluster Member
Agrarian Change and Development
Research Cluster Member
- Name:
- Dr Laura Hammond
- Email address:
- lh4@soas.ac.uk
- Telephone:
- 020 7898 4654
- Address:
- SOAS, University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG - Building:
- Russell Square: College Buildings
- Office No:
- 371
- Office Hours:
- Wednesday 10am-12pm
Biography
Laura has degrees in Anthropology from the University Wisconsin-Madison and did her undergraduate degree at Sarah Lawrence College. She has taught at Clark University, the University of Reading, and was a Visiting Fellow at the University of Sussex.
Teaching
Courses Taught
- Famine and Food Security (MSc Research for International Development)
- Famine and food security
- Food Security and Livelihoods
PhD Students supervised
- Ana Oprisan, The Roma in Turkey. From Survival Mechanisms to Development Strategies
- Anna Rader, Conceptualising Citizenship in Somaliland
- Cathy Huser, Protecting people affected by armed conflict and other situations of violence: Do global protection norms make a difference in the lives of people at risk?
- Hannah Vaughan-Lee, Aiding the Status Quo of 'Post-Collapse': Humanitarian Assistance and the Political Processes of State-building in South Central Somalia 2007 - 2010
- Joanna Hoare, Gender and ‘active citizenship’ in the context of development intervention in Kyrgyzstan
- Marion Péchayre, International non-governmental organisations and the politics of “triage” in conflict and natural disasters settings - Pakistan 2004-2012
- Miguel Malta,
- Nimo Ali,
- Rebecca E. Engel, International interventions during transition in Timor-Leste: Implications for stability and the prevention of violent conflict
- Robtel Pailey, The Love of Liberty Divided Us Here? Implications of Dual Citizenship on Liberia's Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Development Processes
- Sehin Teferra, Occupational Hazard or Patriarchal Entitlement? : Feminist Analysis of the Dynamics of Violence in Ethiopian Sex Work (working title)
- Siham Rayale, The Politics of Peace: Accounting for Security in Women’s Political Participation In Somaliland (1991-2012)
Research
Laura's research interests include food security, conflict, forced migration and diasporas. She has worked in the Horn of Africa for the past fifteen years, and has done consultancy for a wide range of development and humanitarian organizations, including UNDP, USAID, Oxfam, Medécins Sans Frontières, the International Committee of the Red Cross, and the World Food Programme. She is the author of This Place Will Become Home: Refugee Repatriation to Ethiopia (Cornell University Press: 2004) and several book and journal articles.
Expertise
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Available for
Regional Expertise
- Africa
Country Expertise
- Ethiopia
- Somalia
Languages
Publications
Authored Books
Hammond, Laura (2004) This Place Will Become Home. Refugee Repatriation to Ethiopia. Cornell University Press.
Book Chapters
Hammond, Laura (2008) 'The Power of Holding Humanitarianism Hostage and the Myth of Protective Principles.' In: Barnett, Michael and Weiss, Thomas G., (eds.), Humanitarianism in question : politics, power, ethics. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, pp. 172-195.
Hammond, Laura (2004) 'The Making of a Good Citizen in an Ethiopian Returnee Settlement.' In: Long, L. D. and Oxfeld, E., (eds.), Coming Home? Refugees, Migrants, and Those Who Stayed Behind. University of Pennsylvania Press, pp. 187-205.
Hammond, Laura (2003) 'How Will the Children Come Home? Emplacement and the Creation of the Social Body in an Ethiopian Returnee Settlement.' In: Olwig, K. F. and Gullov, E., (eds.), Children's Places. Cross-Cultural Perspectives. London: Routledge, pp. 77-94.
Articles
Polzer, Tara and Hammond, Laura (2008) 'Invisible Displacement.' Journal of Refugee Studies, 21 (4). pp. 417-431.
Hammond, Laura (2008) 'Strategies of Invisibilization: How Ethiopia's Resettlement Programme Hides the Poorest of the Poor.' Journal of Refugee Studies, 21 (4). pp. 517-536.
Hammond, Laura (2008) 'Why Upholding Humanitarian Principles Does Not Protect Aid Workers.' Development Viewpoint (7).
Hammond, Laura and Maxwell, D. (2002) 'The Ethiopian Crisis of 1999-2000: Lessons Learned, Questions Unanswered.' Disasters, 26 (3). pp. 262-79.
Monographs
Hammond, Laura and Vaughan-Lee, Hannah (2012) Humanitarian space in Somalia: a scarce commodity. Working Paper. HPG Working Paper.
Other
Hammond, Laura and Awad, Mustafa and Ibrahim Dagane, Ali and Hansen, Peter and Horst, Cindy and Menkhaus, Ken and Obare, Lynette (2011) 'Cash & Compassion: The Somali Diaspora's Role in Relief, Development & Peacebuilding.' United Nations Development Programme - Somalia. (Unpublished)
