Carrie Perkins is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Soka University of America. Her current research interests include forced migration and refugee studies in Southeast Asia, multi-modal ethnography as a component of digital storytelling, and urban agriculture in refugee camp design. She has conducted research within refugee camps along the Thai-Myanmar border and Iraqi Kurdistan as well as with resettled refugees in the U.S. and U.K. Her work on incorporating urban agriculture within refugee camps has been published in the Journal of Refugee Studies, the Forced Migration Review and has been featured on NPR. She is also the creator of “The Art of Exile”, an interactive art gallery presented in virtual reality (VR) that showcases the work of indigenous artists in refugee camps who have been displaced by the civil war in Myanmar. Dr. Perkins has previously held positions as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of California, Irvine, and a Visiting Study Fellow at the University of Oxford’s Refugee Studies Centre. She holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Southern Methodist University.
