Evan Easton-Calabria
Consultant | Facilitator of the RSRI Research CoP and RSRI Climate Task Team
Senior Researcher and Fellow at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and Feinstein International Center, Tufts University
Dr. Evan Easton-Calabria serves as a consultant to the RSRI and a facilitator of the RSRI Research CoP and RSRI Climate Task Team. She is a Senior Researcher and Fellow at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and Feinstein International Center, Tufts University, and a Research Associate at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford. She conducts research at the intersection of climate, conflict, and displacement, including work on early warning systems and anticipatory action.
For over a decade, she has led major research projects on humanitarian and development programming for protracted and multiple crises, with a focus on livelihoods and self-reliance for displaced populations in Eastern and the Horn of Africa. This has included work examining anticipatory action pilots for displaced people through her work as part of the Academic Alliance on Anticipatory Action, Tufts University, and ongoing work with the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre.
She is the author of over 75 publications aimed at policy, practitioner, and academic audiences, including two books, Refugees, Self-Reliance, Development: A Critical History (Bristol University Press, 2022) and The Global Governed: Refugees as Providers of Protection and Assistance (Cambridge University Press, 2020).
Evan previously worked for five years at the Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford, where she holds a Master’s and PhD in International Development.
