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From September 2018, Megan will hold a three-year British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the London School of Economics Latin America and Caribbean Centre. The working title of her research project is ‘Navigating borderlands: Colombian women migrants in Chile and experiences of violence’. It focuses on the lived experiences of Colombian migrant women in the mining town of Antofagasta in the north of Chile. Prior to this, since 2015 Megan has been a Fellow in Human Geography in the Department of Geography and Environment at the London School of Economics. She obtained her PhD from Queen Mary University of London. During her doctoral studies, from 2014-2015, she was Co-Chair of the UK-wide Postgraduates in Latin American Studies Society (PILAS). She completed an MPhil in Latin American Studies at the University of Cambridge and carried out her BA (Hons) at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Her work has focused on migration and citizenship in Latin America, with an increasing interest in violence and borderlands. Megan’s first book, Uncertain citizenship: Everyday practices of Bolivian migrants in Chile will be published by the University of California Press in September 2018.