Dr. Alice Verticelli
Assistant Professor
University of Delaware
459 Smith Hall
Biography
Alice Verticelli, PhD (Northeastern University, 2021) has a strong background in Migration Studies and EU and Middle East Politics. Dr. Verticelli is interested in borders and how policies and migrant agency shape them. She looks at how formal and informal structures and processes shape migration policy and its effects. She worked as a research assistant at the Harvard Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and Northeastern on migrant political incorporation, Middle East politics, and Development issues.
Dr. Verticelli’s teaching experience includes immersive, experiential courses abroad as well as traditional classroom and online instruction in International Relations, Migration, Middle East studies, Research Methods, Comparative Politics, Statistics, and more. In her courses, she encourages students to think critically and engage with the material interactively.
Dr. Verticelli was raised in Italy. Her non-academic experience includes consulting and NGO work in Europe, the US, the Palestinian Territories, Jordan, and Egypt.
Recent publications
Work in Progress:
“The Securitization of Migration in the Central Mediterranean Context: Between the Local and the Supranational.” (Chapter). Co-authored (with Denis Sullivan).
“The Case for European Humanitarian Visas: Evidence from Humanitarian Corridors Refugees in Italy.”
“Europe’s Burdened Border in the Central Mediterranean: Politics of Refuge and (In)security in Lampedusa.”
Published:
“Women’s Movements in North Africa,” (chapter) in Yacob-Haliso O. and Falola T. (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of African Women’s Studies, 1st edition (2020), Springer. Co-authored (with Valentine Moghadam).
“History of Egypt,” (chapter) in The Middle East and North Africa 2021, 667h edition (2020), London and New York: Routledge. Co-authored (with Denis Sullivan).
Also co-authored 66th, 65th, 64th, 63rd, 62nd editions (2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015).
“Sustainable Solutions for EU Asylum and Integration Policies,” Boston Consortium for Arab Region Studies, May 2016, Policy Paper Number 02, Boston.
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