Biography
Caitlin Procter is a political anthropologist who conducts research on youth, conflict and forced
displacement at the Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding (CCDP). As a Marie
Skłodowsk Curie Research Fellow at the CCDP, her current research explores the reintegration
of children and youth from Islamic State in Northeast Syria and in Tunisia. In Syria, she also
works in partnership with Save the Children and Impact CSRD, developing capacity among
national research teams to undertake participatory research with women and children on
reintegration.
Caitlin also has expertise in Palestine. She received her DPhil from the University of Oxford in
International Development 2019, and her book based on her doctoral research – an
ethnography of the political practices of refugee youth in East Jerusalem, titled Beyond the
State – is currently under review with Cambridge University Press. As a Post-Doctoral Visiting
Fellow at the Centre of Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University in 2019 and as a Max
Weber Post-Doctoral Fellow at the EUI in 2020, she conducted research on youth and coerced
migration from Gaza, where she conducted over a year of fieldwork.
Caitlin has taught qualitative research methods and ethics at postgraduate level at the EUI, and
is co-founder of The New Ethnographer, a project designed to improve ethnographic research
methods training. She is co-editor of the textbook Inclusive Ethnography: Making fieldwork
safer, healthier and more ethical, published by SAGE (2024).
Caitlin has extensive experience as a consultant and advisor to UNRWA, UNHCR, UNICEF,
Save the Children, the Lebanese Center for Policy Studies and to European diplomatic missions
in Jerusalem.