Faculty Profile

SM Musa is an ethnographically-driven scholar whose research explores the intersections of institutions, entrepreneurship, and social inclusion, with a particular focus on marginalized communities and refugee contexts.

Combines deep ethnographic insight with theoretical innovation in institutional and entrepreneurship studies; recognized for advancing understanding of social inclusion, identity, and entrepreneurial activity in marginalized and refugee settings; recipient of competitive research grants and awards; impactful in both academic and policy-relevant spheres.

Focused research areas include Ethnographic studies of entrepreneurship and institutional dynamics in refugee camps; mechanisms of social inclusion and exclusion; necessity entrepreneurship; identity bootstrapping in total institutions; art and social change.