Dorothea Hilhorst

Dorothea Hilhorst is a professor of Humanitarian Studies at the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University. She specializes in development in areas affected by disaster, conflict, or fragility, with a particular focus on aid-society relations, exploring the impact of humanitarian aid on society and how people and institutions shape the organization of aid. Dorothea has supervised over 30 PhD candidates and conducted research in settings impacted by disaster, conflict, and fragility, including Afghanistan, Angola, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, the Philippines, Rwanda, South Sudan, and Sri Lanka. She currently directs a research program on situations where conflicts intersect with disasters, which is the basis for this MOOC.