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Meghan M. Garrity

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Dr. Meghan Garrity (LinkedIn – Bluesky) is an Assistant Professor of International Security and Law at George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government. Her research is situated at the nexus of international peace and security, ethnic violence, and forced migration. She is focused on understanding conflict processes by examining the causes of, and constraints on, government policies of group-based ethnic violence and exclusion. 

Her book, Mass Expulsion: The Politics of Forced Population Removal (Oxford University Press – Bridging the Gap Series, 2026), explains why and how governments expel ethnic groups en masse. Garrity’s other work has been published in the Journal of Peace Research, Security Studies, the British Journal of Sociology, Political Science Quarterly, the International Political Science Review, the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, International Affairs, The Washington Post, and The Conversation. 

Garrity has over ten years of experience as a humanitarian and development practitioner throughout sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East. She was previously a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School, and a Peace Fellow with the U.S. Institute of Peace. Garrity received her PhD in political science from the University of Pennsylvania.

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A man in traditional Afghan garb of vest over tunic and loose, flowing trousers with long hair and beard and a small brown cap and sandals stands in profile holding a long, thin, curved stick and monitoring a line of Afghan women in blue burqas, robes or dark chadors. One woman holds open a red flowered umbrella. Two of the others, who are wearing blue burqas spotted with rainwater, huddle with each other in the center of the photo, their backs to the camera, in front of the other women.

Gender Apartheid and Public Opinion: Why Law Matters More Than Labels

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