Shelly Culbertson


Shelly Culbertson is an expert on forced displacement and the associate director of the Disaster Research and Analysis Program at the Homeland Security Research Division of the nonprofit, nonpartisan RAND Corporation.

Articles by Shelly Culbertson
Adults and children walk with their belongings near a blue train.
Adults and children walk with their belongings near a blue train.
A Kurdish refugee mother and son from the Syrian town of Kobani walk beside their tent in a camp in the southeastern Turkish town of Suruc on the Turkish-Syrian border on Oct. 19, 2014.
A Kurdish refugee mother and son from the Syrian town of Kobani walk beside their tent in a camp in the southeastern Turkish town of Suruc on the Turkish-Syrian border on Oct. 19, 2014.
A tent in Manisa, Turkey, in which a Syrian refugee family lives is pictured in May 2016. (Valerio Muscella/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
A tent in Manisa, Turkey, in which a Syrian refugee family lives is pictured in May 2016. (Valerio Muscella/NurPhoto via Getty Images)