Dorothea Hilhorst

Dorothea Hilhorst left PRIO in 2022. The information on this page is kept for historical reasons.

Email: hilhorst@iss.nl

Work phone: +31651915934

Twitter: @hilhorst_thea

Topic
Aid

Topic
Humanitarianism

PRIO Global Fellow 2016-2022.

Dorothea Hilhorst is Professor of Humanitarian Aid & Reconstruction at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of Erasmus University Rotterdam, and part-time at Wageningen University. Hilhorst's research interests concern aid–society relations and development aspects of disasters, conflict and humanitarian aid, and the interactions between them. In 2016 she was appointed a PRIO Global Fellow.

PHD from Wageningen University in 2000: Records and Reputations. Everyday Politics of a Philippine Development NGO.

For more information, please consult Hilhorst's profile page on the website of the ISS.

Latest publications

Nicolás Caso, Dorothea Hilhorst & Rodrigo Mena (2023)
The contribution of armed conflict to vulnerability to disaster: Empirical evidence from 1989 to 2018

Journal Article in International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

Nicolás Caso et al. (2023)
Does disaster contribute to armed conflict? A quantitative analysis of disaster–conflict co-occurrence between 1990 and 2017

Journal Article in International Journal of Development Issues

Latest news

Wednesday, 1 Apr 2020
Dorothea Hilhorst Awarded ERC Advanced Grant

Dorothea Hilhorst has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant for her project "Humanitarian governance: accountability, advocacy, alternatives".

Thursday, 4 Apr 2019
PRIO Researchers Co-Edit and Contribute to Disasters Special Issue

The April 2019 Disasters special issue on Humanitarian Governance features several articles by PRIO researchers, including Kristoffer Lidén, Dorothea Hilhorst (PRIO Global Fellow), and Jacob Høigilt.