Sandra Fullerton Joireman is the Weinstein Chair of International Studies and a professor of Political Science at the University of Richmond.
Her work focuses on property rights, post-conflict return migration, and customary law.
[6] In 2017, Joireman was awarded the Sanjaya Lall prize[7] for her paper in Oxford Development Studies that examined the ability of displaced adults to reclaim property lost during humanitarian crises as children.
[8] Joireman's 2022 book, Peace, Preference and Property: Return Migration After Violent Conflict, examined factors influencing return migration after violent conflict, highlighting the key variables of time, political change, property restitution, and ethnicity.
The book discussed the challenges of intergenerational return migration and property restitution in customary land systems and addressed case studies such as Kosovo, Liberia, and Uganda.