Dr. Anna Purkey is an Assistant Professor and Director of the Human Rights program at St. Paul’s University College at the University of Waterloo. Previously, she worked as an Evaluation Measurement Officer at the IRB (2020) and held the position of Senior Research Associate and Summer Course Director at the Centre for Refugee Studies at York University. Dr. Purkey formerly worked as Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Legal Studies at St. Jerome’s University in the University of Waterloo and was the 2015-2016 Gordon F. Henderson Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Human Rights Research and Education Centre at the University of Ottawa. She holds a Doctorate of Civil Law from McGill University, a Masters in Law from the University of Toronto, a B.C.L./LL.B. from McGill University, and is a member of the Quebec Bar Association. Previously, she held the position of legal counsel at the Department of Justice Canada. She is a member of the board of directors of Action Réfugiés Montréal and the Executive of the Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies. Her research focuses on both domestic and international refugee law, with a special emphasis on protracted refugee situations and themes of human capabilities, legal empowerment, human dignity, vulnerability, governance, and transitional justice.