Gbemisola Abiola
Director of Strategy, Partnerships, and Policy Development for Conflict Research Network West Africa.
Graduate Student Associate, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs (2021-2022)
Affiliate, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion (2020-2022).
Research interests: Critical terrorism studies, anthropologies of political violence, forced migration and displacement studies and post-conflict reconstruction.
Research statement: Gbemisola will spend the year examining the continuum of displacement in northeast Nigeria, in order to broadened her understanding about the challenges that attend humanitarian crises and the manifold effects internal displacement has not only on IDPs, but also on communities that host them.
This information is accurate as of the affiliate year indicated (last updated 01.02.2026)