Molly Fee is a Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow in Sociology at Nuffield College, University of Oxford and a Research Associate at the Refugee Studies Centre. In Fall 2025, she will be an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Interdisciplinary Social Sciences at the University of South Florida. She received her PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her interests include social and economic inequality, international migration, forced migration, organizations, the welfare state, and qualitative methods. Molly studies how organizational structure and policies shape the migration and incorporation of refugees in the United States and how refugees interact with the institutions that grant rights and resources. Her research has been published in outlets such as Social Problems, Ethnic and Racial Studies, and the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.

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Molly developed an interest in how policies shape social contexts while working at the Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL) in Washington, DC. During her time at CAL, she focused on English Learner and foreign language education.