Lecturer II, Program in International and Comparative Studies
About
Greta Uehling’s research interests are concerned with the relationship between national security and migrant rights. Her publications explore the politics of migration and citizenship, indigeneity and sovereignty, and the challenges associated with xenophobia and the social integration of migrants in both Ukraine and the United States. Uehling has carried out research on asylum seekers and migrants to Europe, as well as the United States Government response to human smuggling and trafficking. She is particularly interested the politics of compassion toward unaccompanied and undocumented migrant children. In 2015, she accepted a Fulbright Scholar grant to carry out research in Ukraine. Her project examines the experience of people displaced by the war in Donbas and the Russian occupation of Crimea, focusing on their political agency, tolerance, and human rights.
Uehling received her PhD in cultural anthropology from the University of Michigan in 2000. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship with the Solomon Asch Center for the Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict at the University of Pennsylvania in 2004. Her first book, Beyond Memory: The Deportation and Repatriation of the Crimean Tatars, is based on ethnographic fieldwork in former Soviet areas. Uehling is the author of scholarly articles and book chapters, and has contributed online articles to Euromaidan, The Conversation, Antropoliteia, Cultural Anthropology, Dissident, and Savage Minds. Prior to teaching in the Program on International and Comparatives Studies, Uehling consulted with a number of international organizations including the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, USAID, and the Watson Institute at Brown University.
Affiliation(s)
Award(s)
- University of Michigan Distinguished Dissertation Award
- Rackham Predoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan
- SSRC International Dissertation Research Fellow
Field(s) of Study
- International migration, human smuggling and trafficking, refugee resettlement, Crimean Tatars
