Danilo Mandić is associate senior lecturer in Harvard's Department of Sociology and founding director of the Refugee Fieldwork Program. His research focuses on war, refugees, social movements, nationalism, ethnic relations, organized crime, and conflict societies. His first book, Gangsters and Other Statesmen, received the Mirra Komarovsky Best Book Award (2022) and the ASA Section on Peace, War, and Social Conflict's Best Book Award​​​​​​ (2022). His second book, The Syrian Refugee Crisis, came out in 2023 and he has co-edited Beyond Ethnicity: Changing Youth Values in Southeast Europe (2017) with Tamara Pavasović Trošt. His forthcoming book is Bad Refugees: Geopolitics, Stigma, and Forced Migration in Modern Times (Oxford University Press).