Tufts Offers Haven for Scholars at Risk
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on March 2, 2023
Tufts has hosted international academics in peril before. But the university had never supported four such scholars at once—until this year.
Since 2011 Tufts has participated in Scholars at Risk, a global network matching academics, artists, and public intellectuals facing danger in their home countries with temporary positions abroad. But after the Taliban took power in Afghanistan in August 2021 and Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, the network was “so completely overloaded that we just thought, OK, we should be taking applications directly,” said Diana Chigas, senior international officer and associate provost at Tufts.
