People

Victoria Puglia

Research Topic:

Under what circumstances does food insecurity induce forced migration across sub-Saharan Africa?
AFFILIATION
International Relations Network
College
Balliol College
Course
MPhil International Relations
supervisor

Victoria Puglia is currently reading for the MPhil in International Relations. Her research interests include refugee livelihoods and refugee camp-building; the intersection of conflict, food insecurity, and forced migration; sustainable development; structural inequality; and global justice. Regionally she is interested in East Africa, focusing her work on Uganda and South Sudan. For her MPhil thesis, she will be conducting a quantitative examination of the interaction between conflict and food insecurity as drivers of forced migration across sub-Saharan Africa.

Prior to beginning the MPhil, Victoria completed a BA in International Affairs as a Marquis Scholar at Lafayette College. She had a regional focus on sub-Saharan Africa and a thematic focus on conflict and cooperation, development, and environmentalism. Her undergraduate honors thesis focused on the intersection of food insecurity and conflict as drivers of forced migration across sub-Saharan Africa. She also spent half a year in Uganda, culminating in a field research project examining the effects of unstable food aid on socio-economic structures of refugee settlements in Adjumani, Uganda. Other significant research projects include an examination of the role of disarmament campaigns on ongoing violence in South Sudan, and a geospatial analysis exploring the factors that contribute to general acute malnutrition in refugee settlements across sub-Saharan Africa. She graduated Summa Cum Laude and is currently studying at Oxford as a US Rhodes Scholar.