In memoriam: Professor Elizabeth Colson
Published: 13 Oct 2016
The Refugee Studies Centre is sad to announce that one of its great supporters and leading intellectual collaborators, Professor Elizabeth Colson, passed away aged 99 in Monze, Zambia on 3 August 2016. Elizabeth Colson was a renowned anthropologist who spent many years at the University of California, Berkeley until her retirement. Elizabeth Colson’s academic and personal contribution to the Refugee Studies Centre and to the field of Refugee Studies are memorialised in the endowed Elizabeth Colson Professorship in Forced Migration (currently held by Matthew Gibney) and the Annual Colson Public Lecture, which is given annually by an anthropologist of note.