Dawn Chatty, was born on October 16,1947 and is an American Emerita Professor of Anthropology and Forced Migration, who specialises in the Middle East, nomadic pastoral tribes, and refugees.
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Dawn Chatty was educated at Wakefield High School in Arlington County, Virginia, and was a member of the class of 1965.
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Dawn Chatty studied anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts honours degree.
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Dawn Chatty then studied social development at the International Institute of Social Studies in the Netherlands, from which she graduated with a Master of Arts degree.
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Dawn Chatty has held appointments at universities and at humanitarian organisations.
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From 1977 to 1979, Dawn Chatty was Fulbright professor at the University of Damascus in Syria.
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Dawn Chatty then worked for United Nations Development Programme as a technical assistance expert and was based in Oman between 1979 and 1988.
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Dawn Chatty then returned to academia and was an associate professor at Sultan Qaboos University in Oman from 1988 to 1994.
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In 1994, Dawn Chatty joined the University of Oxford, where she spent the rest of academic career until retirement.
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In 2015, Dawn Chatty retired from full-time academia and was appointed an Emerita Fellow of St Cross College and an Emerita Professor of the University of Oxford.
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Dawn Chatty is a visiting professor of anthropology at New York University's Abu Dhabi campus.
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In 2015, Dawn Chatty was elected a Fellow of the British Academy, the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences.