Dyan Mazurana

Dyan Mazurana, PhD, is a Research Professor at the Fletcher School of Global Affairs and Research Professor at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University. Mazurana directs the Feinstein International Center's Research Program on Women, Children, and Armed Conflict at Tufts University. She served as the Faculty Chair of Tufts Scholars at Risk Program from 2022 to 2025.

Mazurana's scholarship focuses on gendered dimensions of humanitarian response to conflict and crises, documenting serious crimes committed during conflict, and accountability, remedy, and reparation. Her current research focuses on gender apartheid in Afghanistan and the intersection of sexual, gendered, and reproductive violence in conflict and starvation. She serves as an advisor to several governments, UN agencies, human rights NGOs, and child protection organizations regarding humanitarian assistance and improving efforts to assist youth and women affected by armed conflict. This work includes the protection of women and children during armed conflict, as well as remedy and reparation in the aftermath of violence.

Mazurana has worked in Afghanistan, the Balkans, Nepal, and Southern, West, and East Africa. Mazurana has published more than 100 scholarly and policy books, articles, and international reports, and her work has been translated into more than 30 languages.

Mazurana has a Ph.D. and an M.A. in Women's Studies from Clark University. She also holds an M.A. and B.F.A. from the University of Wyoming.