Beth Mitchneck

Beth Mitchneck is a professor of geography at the University of Arizona. In addition to spending several years at the National Science Foundation as the lead program director for ADVANCE, she held numerous administrative positions including associate dean for academic affairs of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, interim vice provost for academic affairs, interim dean, associate dean of the Colleges of Letters, Arts and Science, and Faculty Associate to the Provost for the North Central Accreditation. She is currently a Public Voices Fellow. Mitchneck’s research focuses on migration and displaced populations with an emphasis on Russia and Georgia. Her recent publications include: “Inside Out, How to Help Internally Displaced Refugees” in Foreign Affairs Snapshot “Policy Streams and Immigration to Russia: Competing and Complementary Interests at the Federal and Local Levels” in International Migration, “Displacing Blame: Divergent Accounts of the Georgia-Abkhazia Conflict” in Ethnopolitics; and “Traumatic Masculinities: Shifting Gender Roles Of Georgian IDPs From Abkhazia, in Gender, Place and Culture.

Dr. Mitchneck received her A.B. from Bryn Mawr College in Russian Area Studies and her PhD. in Geography from Columbia University. She also holds a certificate in Soviet Studies from the Harriman Institute at Columbia University.