Associate Professor of International Affairs
Resident Fellow, Center for the Study of Global Issues (GLOBIS)
Linn Normand is an Associate Professor of International Affairs and Resident Fellow at the Center for the Study of Global Issues (GLOBIS) in the School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA) at the University of Georgia. She is an interdisciplinary scholar with a background in international relations, history, migration studies, peace and conflict studies, and qualitative research.
Her research and teaching focus on migration and conflict, with an emphasis on lived experience and narrative. She combines archival research with participatory and collaborative methods, including testimonios, photovoice, digital storytelling, and Collective Qualitative Analysis (CQA). Her work also examines processes of demonization in international politics, and she is the author of the book Demonization in International Politics: A Barrier to Peace in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Palgrave Macmillan).
Prior to joining UGA, she held academic appointments at the University of Stavanger (Norway), the University of California, Davis, and the University of Oxford, and was a Pre-doctoral Research Fellow at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. She was a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley in 2019 (Institute of Governmental Affairs) and during the 2021–2022 academic year (Department of Ethnic Studies). She has served in leadership roles within the EU-funded European Masters in Migration and Intercultural Relations (EMMIR) program and maintains active research collaborations across Europe and the United States
