Camellia Biswas will conduct ethnographic fieldwork in Malaysia for the GENDEREDCLIMATEMIG project. Dr. Biswas completed her PhD in June 2024 from the Humanities & Social Sciences Department of the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar. Her research interests encompass a wide range of topics, including Political and Cultural Ecology, environmental (in)justice, environmental governance, conservation social sciences, Indigenous and decolonial epistemologies, adaptation to climate change, and disaster studies. This theoretical diversity allows her to critically analyze complex environmental challenges and propose innovative, community-based solutions. Her doctoral research focused on the socio-political and cultural aspects of climate change-induced disasters, examined through the lived experiences of Sundarban locals and their changing relations with the nonhumans. She has received several grants and awards, including the Inlaks-Ravi Sankaran Conservation Grant (2021-22), the British Council Women Leadership Program (2022), the Earth Scholarship (2023), the Cultivating Humanities and Social Sciences Small Grant by the Association for Asian Studies (2024), INTACH Research Scholarship (2023-24) and won the Director’s Gold Medal for her PhD (2024).

Edgar Córdova Morales will conduct ethnographic fieldwork in Mexico for the GENDEREDCLIMATEMIG project. He is a doctor in anthropology at the Center for Research and Higher Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS), Mexico City. His research explores the relationships between violence, subjectivities, justice and the everyday production of space-time among displaced and racialized populations situated in asymmetrical contexts of power, particularly migrant populations in Mexico, Tunisia and Greece. He is a current SPSS Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton (2024-2026) and a member of the British research network: Maghreb Action on Displacement and Rights (MADAR). He was a fellow of the research group Temporalities of Future (a German- Mexican program), and he was a doctoral student associated at the Institute for Research on the Contemporary Maghreb in Tunis. The Mexican Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) awarded him the national “Fray Bernardino de Sahagún” prize for the best bachelor’s thesis in 2013 and master’s thesis in 2018. As a photojournalist, he has also collaborated with several newspapers and news magazines such as Le Monde, Le Nouvel Observateur, Le Temps and Geo France.

Sofia El Arabi will conduct ethnographic fieldwork in Morocco for the GENDEREDCLIMATEMIG project. She obtained her PhD in Political, Cultural, and Historical Geography from the Faculty of Letters of Sorbonne University, within the Doctoral School of Geography of Paris (ED 434) Spaces, Societies, and Planning, affiliated with the Research Laboratory ENeC (Spaces, Nature, and Culture). She has taught undergraduate and master’s level courses at the University of Paris Cité, Sorbonne University, and Emlyon Business School. She founded the Association of Solidarity for Migrant Support (ASAM) in Taza, Morocco, allowing active engagement in humanitarian missions within trans-Saharan migrant camps. In January 2022, she became an associated researcher at the City Diplomacy Lab of Columbia Global Centers Paris (CGC|Paris). In February 2023, she obtained qualification in CNU section 23, specializing in Physical, Human, Economic, and Regional Geography. From May 2023, she joined the Laboratory of Political Anthropology (LAP-UMR 8177) at EHESS-CNRS as an associated researcher. She has been a Fellow of the Convergences Migrations Institute (ICM) since 2022. Her experience and commitment, both in humanitarian fieldwork and academic research, illustrate her involvement in projects related to development, migration governance, and geography.

Itziri Gonzalez Barcenas is the Project Manager for the GENDEREDCLIMATEMIG project. As a former undocumented immigrant/DACA recipient in the United States, her experiences have shaped her academic interests and professional trajectory at the intersection of migration, gender, and bridging access gaps. She has a B.A. in Political Science and Africana Studies from Davidson College and an M.A. in Human Rights and Humanitarian Action with an Advanced Certification in Gender Studies and a concentration in Migration from Sciences Po Paris School of International Affairs. [itziri-adanely.gonzalez-barcenas@cnrs.fr]