Patricia Daley

Professor Patricia Daley is a leading scholar in Human Geography of Africa at the University of Oxford, serving as Helen Morag Fellow and Tutor in Geography at Jesus College. Her academic journey includes roles at Dartmouth College, Loughborough University, and Pembroke College, Oxford. She specializes in forced migration, feminist geopolitics, and African political ecology, with a focus on East/Central Africa and the UK.

Her research explores intersections of race, gender, militarism, and violence, emphasizing non-Western-centric ontologies. Notable projects include studies on citizenship in Tanzania and racial hierarchies in Africa/African diaspora under neoliberal capitalism. She has received the University of Oxford Teaching Award (2007-2008) and contributed to high-profile dialogues such as the UNHCR Protection Challenges conference (2008).

As an active academic, she chairs Fahamu Trust Ltd and serves on editorial boards for journals like Gender, Place & Culture. Her teaching spans migration, violence, and environmental narratives, while her voluntary work includes roles with the British Institute in Eastern Africa and the University College Union’s equalities committee.