Professor Veronica Fynn Bruey

Veronica Fynn Bruey is a multi-award winner academic-advocate. Professor Veronica Fynn Bruey is currently an AfOx Refugee Studies Centre Visiting Fellow at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford, as part of the Africa Oxford Visiting Fellowship Programme.

Veronica is an accomplished academic with a total of six degrees. Her expertise has been shared through teaching, consulting and presentations in over 30 countries. She is also a prolific author, having written five books, numerous book chapters, and journal articles. Veronica is the founder and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Internal Displacement, co-editor of the Migration, Displacement, and Development Book Series with Rowman and Littlefield, co-lead of the Displaced Peoples Collaborative Research Network, lead of the Disrupting Patriarchy and Masculinity in Africa International Research Collaborative, and president of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration. Additionally, she serves as Co-Chair of the Africa Interest Group for the American Society of International Law. Her academic achievements have been recognized through awards such as the CAFA Distinguished Academic Early Career Award (2023) and the Australian National University International Alumna of the Year (2021). Currently, Veronica is the Director of the Flowers School of Global Health Sciences and is also an assistant professor of Legal Studies at Athabasca University. She is an Indigenous Liberian war survivor.

Veronica's research project in Oxford, "Transnational Indigeneity, Displacement, and Patriarchy: Intergenerational Trauma and Transformational Leadership in the Academy," examines the indigeneity-displacement-patriarchy nexus within post-modern international forced migration law regime. The project explores four inquiries: the oppressive nature of the "rule of settler law" against Indigenous Peoples; the impact of intergenerational trauma on (Black African) Indigenous girls and women who are survivors of systemic violence; the survivorship, life histories, and agency of displaced peoples; and disrupting patriarchal norms in Africa and elsewhere using transformative leadership for social change. The project uses a complex interdisciplinary methodological design grounded in indigenous, anti-feminism, decoloniality, critical (race/legal) studies, intersectionality, and social determinants of health theory to assess whether Indigenous identity can be defined by genetics, geographical boundary, Eurocentric patriarchal colonialism, transplant of settler law, or shared global experiences. It also explores the application of transformative leadership for social change as a cornerstone for Africanising, indigenising, and decolonising institutions of higher education in select countries on the continent of Africa, Canada, and elsewhere.

• Veronica Fynn Bruey and Steven Bender, Deadly Voyages: Migrant Journeys Across the Globe, (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2020)
• Veronica Fynn Bruey (ed), Patriarchy and Gender in Africa ((Lanham: Lexington, 2021).
• Veronica Fynn, Legal Discrepancies: Internal Displacement of Women and Children in Africa, (Kusterdingen: Flowers Books, 2011).
• Veronica Fynn, Documenting the Undocumented: Redefining Refugee Status (Boca Raton: Universal Publisher, 2010)
• Veronica Fynn Bruey, “Reproductive Health Rights in Liberia: The Case of (Il)Legal Abortion” in Olanike S. Adelakun and Erebi Ndoni (eds), Reproductive Health Rights, Tourism and Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Africa (Routledge, 2022 expected). Production-stage.