Jordan Levy
Countries of Expertise
Specialties
- Caste Discrimination/Persecution
- Ethnic Discrimination/Persecution
- Forced Marriage
- Gang-Related Violence/Non-State Actors
- Gender-Based Violence (GBV)/Domestic Violence/Family Violence
- Government/State Actor Persecution
- Healthcare Access/Health Systems Capacity
- HIV/AIDS
- Land Tenure Dispute
- LGBTQ
- Mental Illness
- Political Persecution
- Religious Discrimination/Persecution
- Risk Of Retaliation
- Safe Internal Relocation
- Sexual Abuse/Assault
- Sufficiency Of Protection
- Torture
- Trafficking
- Tribal Discrimination/Persecution
About Jordan Levy
Dr. Jordan D. Levy is a sociocultural anthropologist with a research program focused on state formation, political culture, and out-migration in Honduras. He has been studying Honduran society and travelling there for extended periods since 2001, and has been serving as an expert witness since 2017––now having worked on over 80 different cases in the U.S. and over 20 cases in the U.K.
Most of the asylum cases for which Dr. Levy provides expert witness testimony are at the intersection of political violence, gang-related violence; gender-based violence and LGBTQ issues; domestic violence; child abuse; drug-related violence; Garifuna and Indigenous related issues; religion-based issues; as well
as police and military violence.
Professor Levy’s research projects and professional experiences in Honduras range from conducting non-governmental (NGO) work, to ethnographic research among migrants, deportees, peasant farmers, teachers, journalists, and political activists. He was present during the 2009 military coup, and has since published on how these events have changed Honduran society and increased different forms of violence.
Since earning his PhD from the University of Western Ontario (Canada), Dr. Levy has held three different academic positions in the U.S., where he has taught a range of related university courses, such as Contemporary Latin America, the Anthropology of Migration, and Ethnographic Perspectives on State Formation. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at DePaul University in Chicago.
