Biography
Biography
Ellen Percy Kraly holds the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies at Colgate University and is currently serving as Interim Provost and Dean of the faculty. During 2019, she held the Willy Brandt Guest Professor in International Migration and Ethnic Relations, Malmo University, Sweden. She chairs the Scientific Panel on International Migration of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population and is contributing to the Panel on Civil Registration and Vital Statistics. She has recently co-organized workshops on the role of demographic research in U.S. refugee resettlement for the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Population. Her scholarship addresses refugee and forced migration, migration and environment, emigration, and population data systems and human rights. She has recently co-edited a book on the demography of refugee and forced migration, and has published on the mandates for social scientific research in the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration. Dr. Kraly is former editor of the International Migration Review. She served as International investigator in the Australian Research Council project, “Ancestors' words:” Noongar writing in WA government archives (1860-1960s).” At Colgate, she teaches courses in population geography, international migration and population displacement, health geographies, and social research methods. In 2014 she was awarded an honorary doctorate from Curtin University, Perth, Australia recognizing her work to repatriate Aboriginal artwork to Western Australia. Reform.