Dr. Cynthia Gorman

West Virginia University

Dr. Cynthia Gorman is an Assistant Professor at West Virginia University in the Department of Geology and Geography. Her research examines the spatialities of political asylum law, including how layered histories of legal decision-making shape the geographies of contemporary border enforcement and human mobility. Dr. Gorman was recently awarded the Wilma Dykeman "Faces of Appalachia" Post-doctoral Research Fellowship from the Appalachian Studies Association and a National Geographic Society Explorers Grant to study the experience of refugees who are negotiating bordering practices and social life in Appalachia and the South.