Chatty is both an academic and practising anthropologist. She has held appointments at universities and at humanitarian organisations. This reflects her research interests: the Middle East, nomadic pastoraltribes, and refugees, particularly young refugees.[3]
In 1994, Chatty joined the University of Oxford, where she spent the rest of academic career until retirement.[1] From 1994 to 2002, she was the Dulverton Senior Fellow at Queen Elizabeth House (now the Department of International Development).[1] In 2002, she was appointed university lecturer in forced migration and elected a Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford.[1][4] In September 2004, she was promoted to Reader in Forced Migration.[5] From October 2005 to September 2007, she held a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship; the research she conducted during this period was published as Dispossession and Displacement in the Modern Middle East (2010).[3] Between 2011 and 2014, she was Director of the Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford.[6] In January 2012, she was awarded a Title of Distinction as Professor of Anthropology and Forced Migration.[7]
Chatty's 2018 book Syria: The Making and Unmaking of a Refuge State, an overview of 150 years of forced migration into and out of Syria for the general public was criticized in one review for containing errors of fact and of omission, in particular, in discussion the multiple causes of the Syrian Civil War, Chatty omits any discussion of the Syrian government's longstanding support of multiple Palestinian militant organizations, and omits discussion of the destruction and depopulation of Syria's Yarmouk Camp, which contained 110,000 people, most of them descendants of Palestinian refugees, at the beginning of the war.[10]
Personal life
In 1979, Chatty married Oliver Nicholas Patrick Mylne. Together they have two children: one son and one daughter.[1]
Chatty, Dawn (1986). From camel to truck: the Bedouin in the modern world (1st ed.). New York: Vantage Press. ISBN978-0533064847.
Chatty, Dawn (1996). Mobile Pastoralists: Development Planning and Social Change in Oman. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN978-0231105484.
Chatty, Dawn; Colchester, Marcus, eds. (2002). Conservation and Mobile Indigenous Peoples: Displacement, Forced Settlement and Sustainable Development. New York: Berghahn books. ISBN978-1571818416.
Chatty, Dawn; Lewando-Hundt, Gillian, eds. (2005). Children of Palestine: Experiencing Forced Migration in the Middle East. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN978-1845450106.
Chatty, Dawn (2010). Displacement and Dispossession in the Modern Middle East. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN978-0521817929.
Chatty, Dawn (2013). From camel to truck: the Bedouin in the modern world (2nd ed.). White Horse Press. ISBN978-1874267720.
Chatty, Dawn (2018). Syria: the making and unmaking of a refuge state. London: C. Hurst & Co. ISBN978-1849048767.
^"Wakefield Hall of Fame". Wakefield Alumni. Wakefield High School Education Foundation. Retrieved 7 February 2017.
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^"Examinations and Boards". Oxford University Gazette. 133 (4665). 27 June 2003. Archived from the original on 27 February 2018. Retrieved 9 February 2017.