Maryam Z. Deloffre
Maryam Z. Deloffre
Associate Professor of International Affairs and Director of the Humanitarian Action Initiative
Full-time Faculty
Programs: MA International Development Studies
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Maryam Z. Deloffre
Maryam Z. Deloffre is Associate Professor of International Affairs, Director of Dean’s Scholars and Director of the Humanitarian Action Initiative at the Elliott School of International Affairs; a Mercator Fellow at the DFG Research Training Group – Standards of Global Governance (Germany). She was formerly an Associate Senior Fellow at Centre for Global Cooperation Research, Universität Duisburg-Essen (Germany) and Assistant, then Associate Professor of Political Science at Arcadia University (2011-2018).
Dr. Deloffre’s research focuses on the dynamics of global and humanitarian governance and coordination, the political economy of humanitarian assistance, non-governmental organization (NGOs) and locally-led humanitarian assistance, and has been published by Oxford University Press and in International Studies Review, Review of International Studies, Global Health Governance, Public Administration and Development, PS: Political Science and Politics, and as chapters in edited volumes. Deloffre earned a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, a M.A. in International Relations at l’Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) in Paris, France, and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the George Washington University.
Global and humanitarian governance, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), humanitarianism, humanitarian financing, standard-setting and, accountability in humanitarian assistance, locally-led humanitarian assistance.
B.A. in Political Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
M.A. in International Relations, Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris-Fondation Nationale de Sciences Politiques (Sciences Po),
Ph.D. in Political Science, The George Washington University
IAFF 3190: Dean's Scholars Research Design Seminar
IAFF 3193W ESIA Dean's Scholars Seminar
IAFF 6138 Humanitarian Governance and Policy
IAFF 6138 Locally-led Humanitarian Assistance
IAFF 6138 Humanitarian and Human Rights Advocacy
IAFF 6137 International Development Studies Pre-Capstone Workshop
IAFF 6139 International Development Studies Capstone
[Recent]
Deloffre, Maryam Zarnegar and Sigrid Quack. 2025. A Relational Approach to NGOs in Global Politics: Beyond Cooperation and Competition. Oxford University Press.
Deloffre, Maryam Zarnegar, (2025). "SCHR and humanitarian standard-setting: How field dynamics produce coordination and hierarchy," in Hierarchies and exclusion in humanitarianism, Clara Egger (Ed.), Manchester University Press.
Deloffre, Maryam Zarnegar. 2025. “Teaching non-governmental organizations,” in Teaching International Organizations, Kent Kille (Ed.), Edward Elgar Publishing.
Deloffre, Maryam Zarnegar, (2022). “The Power of Doing: Constitutive Steering Practices and the Making of Steering Committees,” in The Why and How of Global Governors: Relational Agency in World Politics, International Studies Review, 24:4. https://doi.org/10.1093/isr/viac054
Deloffre, Maryam Zarnegar (2022) The Sphere Project: Imagining Better Humanitarian Action through Reflective Accountability Institutions and Practices in Imagining Pathways for Global Cooperation, Katja Freistein, Bettina Mahlert, Sigrid Quack, and Christine Unrau (editors). Edward Elgar.