Dr. Jasmin Lilian Diab (she/هي) is the Director of the Institute for Migration Studies(IMS) at the Lebanese American University (LAU), where she also serves as Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Migration Studies at the Department of Communication, Mobility and Identity (CMI). In 2025, her research was awarded the Lisa Gilad Prize from the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM), as well as the LAU School of Arts and Sciences’ Distinguished Achievement Award. In 2026, her research received the ‘Best Paper Award’ from the Gender and Sexuality in Migration Research Standing Committee at IMISCOE, the largest interdisciplinary network of scholars in the field of migration. Dr. Diab is a Research Affiliate at the Centre for Refugee Studies at York University, and an Affiliated Scholar at the Center for International Gender Studies at the University of Münster. As of 2026 she is a Global Fellow at the Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights at Harvard University.
