I am an Assistant Professor of Political Science and the Head Faculty Fellow for the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Social Justice at Stonehill College. I also serve on the Academic Council of American Friends of Combatants for Peace. My research strengths lie in the following areas: Feminist International Relations and Security Studies; Civil Society and Activism; Political Islam; Middle East; Gender Politics; and Social Movements. My work has been featured in The Journal of Women, Politics & Policy, The International Feminist Journal of Politics, Political Research Quarterly, Religion and Politics, Culturico, The Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Conversation, Times of Israel, Haaretz, Middle East Eye, +972 Magazine, Quartz, The Defense Post, The Jerusalem Post, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Albawaba, the New Arab, and the National, among others.
At Stonehill College, I teach Global Security Studies, Political Science Research Methods, US Foreign Policy, Political Islam, Politics of the Middle East, Terror, State and Society, Cyber Security, Politics of "Fake News," and International Politics.
I am a Co-chair of the Faculty of Color Association at Stonehill College. I currently serve as a program Co-Chair on the executive committee of the Feminist Theory and Gender Studies Section (FTGS). Before, I served as a Member-at-Large on FTGS (2020-2022). I also saved as a Member -at-Large (2019-2021) and the first graduate student representative on the executive committee of WCIS (2016-2018). I was the president of the Political Science Graduate Student Association in 2015. Moreover, I attended the 60th and 61st Commission on the Status of Women as a delegate for Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. As a graduate student at the University of Cincinnati, I was designated as a Graduate School Fellow, a Charles Phelps Taft Dissertation Fellow, a Dean Dissertation Fellow and a Security Council Monitor Fellow with WILPF. I presented her research at various conferences including the International Feminist Journal of Politics, the Midwest Political Science Association, and the International Studies Association.
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At Stonehill College, I teach Global Security Studies, Political Science Research Methods, US Foreign Policy, Political Islam, Politics of the Middle East, Terror, State and Society, Cyber Security, Politics of "Fake News," and International Politics.
I am a Co-chair of the Faculty of Color Association at Stonehill College. I currently serve as a program Co-Chair on the executive committee of the Feminist Theory and Gender Studies Section (FTGS). Before, I served as a Member-at-Large on FTGS (2020-2022). I also saved as a Member -at-Large (2019-2021) and the first graduate student representative on the executive committee of WCIS (2016-2018). I was the president of the Political Science Graduate Student Association in 2015. Moreover, I attended the 60th and 61st Commission on the Status of Women as a delegate for Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. As a graduate student at the University of Cincinnati, I was designated as a Graduate School Fellow, a Charles Phelps Taft Dissertation Fellow, a Dean Dissertation Fellow and a Security Council Monitor Fellow with WILPF. I presented her research at various conferences including the International Feminist Journal of Politics, the Midwest Political Science Association, and the International Studies Association.
Learn more about me here, here, and here.
