AFGHAN FEMALE STUDENT OUTREACH

Marianne Bengtsson Agostino

Professor Bengtsson Agostino is emerita at the University "La Sapienza" in Rome, Italy. She received her doctorate in Public Health from the University of Gothenberg. She has published widely, especially in nursing research and issues of gender and public health.

 

Naomi Altman

Professor Altman is professor emerita of Statistics and Bioinformatics at The Pennsylvania State University. Her interest in statistics stems from her broad interests in the application of the mathematical sciences to problems in other disciplines in particular, medical and biological sciences, earth and environmental sciences, and social sciences. Her statistical interests include bioinformatics, high dimensional data, nonparametric smoothing, model selection and analysis of functional and longitudinal data. She is a member of the Huck Institutes of Life Sciences, specializing in bioinformatics and genomics.

 

Ellen Anderson

Professor Anderson is Associate Professor of Chemistry at the University of St. Joseph in West Hartford, Connecticut. She specializes in biochemistry and teaching chemistry to student in the medical field.

 

Rahman Azari

Rahman Azari is an associate professor of architecture and director of RE2 Lab at the Pennsylvania State University. Prior to Penn State, Professor Azari served as an assistant professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology and the University of Texas San Antonio. With a background in architecture, Azari holds a Ph.D. in Built Environment (Sustainability track) from the University of Washington in Seattle (2013). Azari is a Certified Passive House Consultant (CPHC).

 

Elena Beretta

Professor Beretta is Clinical Professor of Mathematics at New York University - Abu Dhabi and editor of the journal Inverse Problems. Her research specialties include mathematical modelling, partial differential equations, inverse problems, machine learning, medical imaging, and seismology. She has conducted in research center and universities around the world and served as plenary speaker and numberous international conferences.

 

Sarah Feili

Originally from Iran, Professor Feili is earning her Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology from Wesleyan University in the United States.

 

Gary Felder

Professor of Physics, Smith College, Massachusetts, US; BA in Physics from Oberlin College, PhD in Physics from Stanford University.

Professor Felder's research has mostly focused on the production of matter in the early universe, and more recently on the intersections of chaos theory and quantum mechanics. Professor Felder has also published two college-level textbooks: "Mathematical Methods in Engineering and Physics" and "Modern Physics," as well as a video course for "The Great Courses" entitled "The Big Bang and Beyond: Exploring the Early Universe."

 

Lucy Ferriss

Professor Ferriss holds a PhD in English and American literature from Tufts University. She is the author of twelve books, including her new Bookmarked title, Christina Stead's "The Man Who Loved Children" (Ig Publishing, Sept. 2023), a memoir of reading. Also out recently are her essay collection, Meditations for a New Century (2023) her republished novel The Misconceiver (2022), Foreign Climes: Stories, and A Sister to Honor (2015) She is Writer in Residence emerita at Trinity College, and President of the Board of Afghan Female Student Outreach.

 

Carmel Finnan

Professor Finnan is professor emerita at the University of Limerick, Ireland. She specializes in teaching communications, writing, and English as a Foreign Language. She is based in Berlin, Germany.

 

Elisa Francini

Associate Professor in Mathematical Analysis at the University of Florence, Italy. Professor Francini holds a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Florence and has previously worked as a researcher at the Italian National Research Council. Her research interests primarily focus on inverse problems for partial differential equations.

 

Erin Leigh Frymire 

Erin Leigh Frymire is a lecturer at Trinity College and has been a faculty member since 2017. She holds a Ph.D. from Northeastern University and a B.A. from Skidmore College. Professor Frymire's research interests include rhetorics of the body, law, space, and human rights. She specializes in systemic violence and its impact on human bodies. Her teaching emphasizes critical thinking and rhetorical literacy, helping students develop effective communication skills. She fosters a student-centered classroom environment that respects diversity and encourages independent thinking and writing.

 

Rana Habibi

Professor Habibi is a senior lecturer and researcher in urban design at the Faculty of Built Environment of the University of Breda and an associate researcher at the University of Leuven. Her courses include Urban Design Strategies, Design Labs in different contexts of China, South Africa, and the Netherlands, and Energy Transition: Future Urban Strategy at the University of Breda. Her research focuses on the intersection of non-western urban history, inclusive urbanism, and climate change. She is engaged in numerous European Union-funded projects such as Inclusive City, KreativEU, and Greengage within Breda University. Professor Habibi's monograph, "Modern Middle-Class Housing in Tehran - A Reproduction of Archetype: Episodes of Urbanism 1945-1979" (2021), stands out among her publications.

 

Sonya Huber

Professor Huber is Professor of English at Fairfield University in Connecticut. A writer of creative nonfiction and journalism, she has published five books including Opa Nobody, Cover Me: A Health Insurance Memoir, and Pain Woman Takes Your Keys and Other Essays from a Nervous System. She specializes in social justice and nonfiction writing, writing pedagogy, immersion writing, the history of the essay, and issues of chronic pain.

 

Barbara Kaltenbacher

Professor Kaltenbacher teches Applied Analysis at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria and is a member of the Executive Committee of the European Mathematical Society. Her research concerns inverse problems, regularization, and PDE-constrained optimization. She earned her doctorate at Johannes Kepler University, Linz.

 

Christoph König

Christoph König is a Doctoral Candidate and Researcher at Humboldt-Universität Berlin and teaches private and corporate law at the University of Erfurt. He undertook his undergraduate legal studies at Humboldt-Universität Berlin and the University of Zurich and is a former chairman of the Refugee Law Clinic Berlin and the Refugee Law Clinics Germany. He has a keen interest in legal theory, comparative law, legal history, and the law of civil liberties.

 

Ina Malloy

Ina Malloy has taught darkroom, digital photography and digital art to over 2500 students, many of whom have gone on to pursue a career in the photography or design/media industry.

From 1998-2013 she was the administrator of the Amity Teen Teaching Program where more than 500 students were placed in local elementary schools to job shadow their host teacher. She also initiated and facilitated the donation of more than 18,000 books that were wrapped and given to the students at each elementary school. Many students have gone on to pursue a career in education and still keep in touch.

 

Donald Moon

Professor Moon is the Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Professor emeritus in the College of Social Studies, Wesleyan University. He is the author of John Rawls: Liberalism and the Challenges of Late Modernity and Constructing Community: Moral Pluralism and Tragic Conflicts. He has published widely and served on numerous boards, including the American Political Science Association. He earned his PhD at the University of Minnesota.

 

Janet F Morrison 

Professor Morrison has been a member of the Chemistry Department faculty at Trinity College since 1997, where she has taught both lecture and laboratory courses in Analytical Chemistry, Instrumental Methods of Chemical Analysis, Introduction to Forensic Science, and Introductory Chemistry. Her research is focused on the development and optimization of analytical methods for detecting trace analytes in biological specimens, including drugs in alternative biological specimens, biomarkers of Parkinson's Disease, and ethanol biomarkers. Professor Morrison holds degrees from The American University, Northeastern University, and Hartwick College.

 

Reut Paz

Professor Paz specializes in public international law, European Law, international relations, and international legal history. She holds degrees in law and political science from the University of Helsinki, Finland and a Ph.D. from Bar-Ilan University, Israel. Currently she holds a senior research position at the law faculty of the Franz von Liszt Institut für Internationales Recht und Rechtsvergleichung at the Justus Liebig Universität Gießen, Germany. Dr. Paz is the author of A Gateway Between a Distant God & a Cruel World: The Contribution of Jewish German Scholars to International Law (2012) and of articles in several journals, including the European Journal of International Law and the German Law Journal, as well as in the Oxford Handbook of International Legal Theory.

 

Xavier Prudent

Xavier Prudent earned his engineering degree from the Grenoble Engineering School with a focus on Physics and his master's degree in particle physics and astroparticles from Joseph Fourier University. Subsequently, he obtained a PhD in experimental particle physics from Stanford University, where he worked on the BaBar experiment. Following his PhD, Xavier pursued postdoctoral positions at universities in Dresden and Bonn, Germany, collaborating with the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. His academic journey culminated with a postdoctoral role as a scientific guest at the Max Planck Institute of Cell Biology and Genetics, specializing in bio-statistics. Presently, he serves as the Director of Technology at Civilia, a Canadian company dedicated to enhancing public transportation infrastructure.

 

Sarah Rajtmajer

Professor Rajtmajer is an assistant professor in the College of Information Sciences and Technology and research associate in the Rock Ethics Institute at Penn State. Her research integrates machine learning, AI and hybrid human-AI systems to understand how information encodes values like accuracy, objectivity, and privacy, and the trade-offs involved in managing healthy information ecosystems. Dr. Rajtmajer has a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Zagreb, Croatia, and a BA in Mathematics from Columbia University.

 

Kirstin Smith

Kirstin is fascinated by how performance shapes our daily lives and ways of relating to each other: our conceptions of value, identity and economy. She's taught performance theory, texts, practice and writing, and particularly enjoys supervising creative dissertations from BA to PhD. Recently, she's been researching casting (Theatre Journal, PLATFORM) and her book about the emergence of stunts in public life is published by Routledge. Kirstin began her work as an actor on screen and stage, before becoming a dramaturg and devising performer. A fan of eclecticism, she has also published fiction and worked in disability access.

 

Persheng Vaziri

Professor Vaziri is Special Assistant Professor in Film Studies at Hofstra University in New York. She specializes in film history and world cinema. Her book Non-fiction in Iran: Filming Social Change is forthcoming from the University of Texas Press.