Post-Graduate Education
Program: MPhil/PhD Geography, London School of Economics & Political Science, UK (2008-12)
Scholarships: Full LSE PhD Scholarship (2008/2009; 2009/2010;)
Dissertation Topic: Social Credit and Territoriality in a Post-Socialist Moral Economy: An Ethnography
Academic Supervisors: Dr. Gareth Jones and Dr. Sharad Chari
Publications
Freedoms Won, Freedoms Lost: Post-Socialist Narratives in Rural Poland (Forthcoming December 2009). (2009). Create Space: United States. ISBN: 1449589669.
“Walentynowicz, Anna (b. 1929)”.The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest: 1500 to the Present. Edited by Immanuel Ness. Wiley-Blackwell Publishing: Oxford, England. (c) 2009.
“Labuda, Barbara (b.1946)”.The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest: 1500 to the Present.Edited by Immanuel Ness. Wiley-Blackwell Publishing: Oxford, England. (c) 2009.
“Women in 1848, Poland”. The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest: 1500 to the Present. Edited by Immanuel Ness. Wiley-Blackwell Publishing: Oxford, England. (c) 2009.
“This Land is Our Land”: Local Thai Women’s Struggle for Land and Housing Rights in Post-Tsunami Thailand. The International Journal of Diversity in Organizations, Communities and Nations, Volume 7, Issue 3, pp. 27-36. Peer-Edited. Common Ground Publishing: Melbourne, Australia. (c) November/December 2007.
“Bringing Women to the Peace Table: Are Women Finally Taking the Initiative to Create Coexistence-And What Will It Look Like?” ‘”The Real World”: Peace’. 614: HBI eZINE, Volume 2, Issue 2. Hadassah-Brandeis Institute. (c) March 2008.
Scholarships, Grants, Fellowships
Full LSE PhD Scholarship (2008/2009; 2009/2010;)
John Coffin Trust Grant, Central Research Fund, University of London (2009)
Polonia Aid Foundation Trust Grant (2009)
Post-Graduate Fellowship, Royal Geographical Society, London (2008-2009)
James F. Dougherty Endowed Scholarship (2008)
Center for Middle Eastern Studies Stipend, Rutgers University (2008)
Women’s & Gender Studies Stipend, Rutgers University (2008)
Henry Rutgers Honors Thesis Stipend (2008)
Jerome and Lorraine Aresty Undergraduate Research Scholarship (2008)
Rutgers College Honors Stipend (2007, 2007, 2008, 2008)
Rutgers College Class of 1920 Endowed Scholarship (2007)
Rising Woman of Rutgers Award (2007)
Rutgers College Academic Excellence Award (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008)
New Jersey Governor’s School of International Studies Scholarship Program (2003)
Visiting Scholar Positions
East Central European Centre, Columbia University, United States under the mentorship of Dr. John Micgiel (April 1-June 30, 2009)
Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland under the mentorship of Dr. Sławomir Kapralski (July 2009)
Collegium Civitas, Warsaw, Poland under the mentorship of Dr. Dariusz Stola (July 2009)
Teaching Experience
Instructor, Global Society & Feminist Thought (12:090:120:34), Rutgers University (Fall Semester 2006)
Guest Lecturing
“A Feminist Perspective on the Effects of Globalization on Women in Developing Countries” at the City University of New York, Binghamton University, Hofstra University (November 2006)
“Contemporary Feminist Perspectives on Sex, Gender and Body Politics” in Advanced Topics in Middle Eastern Studies at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Rutgers University (November 2006)
“Contemporary Feminist Critiques of the Female Archetype in Psychoanalysis” in Classical Age of Islam at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Rutgers University (November 2006)
Research Assistantship
Gathered and categorized data for Dr. Joanna Regulska (Chair, Women’s Studies at Rutgers University) on transformative notions of citizenship, identity and civil society for Eastern European countries after accession into supra-national, intergovernmental structures such as the European Union and NATO. Published in “Will it Make a Difference: EU Enlargement and Women’s Public Discourse in Poland” in Gender Issues and Women’s Movement in European Union (Berghahn Books: Oxford) (Fall 2005)
Conference Presentations
Mundos de Mujeres (Women’s Worlds 2008). 10th International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women: “New Frontiers: Dares and Advances.” University Compultense of Madrid (Spain) (July 2008)
Panel Speaker. National Council of Jewish Women: Understanding Similarities, Respecting Differences Conference. New York City (December 2007)
Sino-U.S. Symposium on Globalization and Its Challenges to Philosophy and Social Sciences in the 21st Century. Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing, China (July 2007)
7th International Conference on Diversity in Organizations, Communities & Nations. Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (July 2007)
Regional Honors Council Annual Conference. Morristown, New Jersey (April 2008)
Nat’l Conference for Undergraduate Research. Dominican University of California (April 2007)
Aresty Undergraduate Research Symposium. Rutgers University. New Brunswick, New Jersey (May 2006)
Feminism in Globalization Conference. Rutgers University. New Brunswick, New Jersey (March 2006)
Conference Coordination (for Global Scholarly Publications in New York City)
Philosophy and Its Challenges to the Humanities, Social Sciences and Globalization in Islam, China, and the West. Mansura University, Egypt (July 2008)
Decision Ethics 2008: Diplomacy, Ethics, Theology and Decision Analysis. United Nations Headquarters, New York City (April 2008)
International Conference on Ancient and Medieval Philosophy. Fordham University, New York (Oct. 2007)
Sino-U.S. Symposium on Globalization and Its Challenges to Philosophy and Social Sciences in the 21st Century. Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing, China (July 2007)
The Role of Inter-Religious Dialogue in Conflict Resolution. UN Headquarters, NYC (Nov. 2006)
UN Series Conference on Leadership, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution. Fordham University (Oct.2006)
Conference Attendance
50th, 51st and 52nd Sessions of the Commission on the Status of Women [CSW]. UN Headquarters, NYC. (Feb.-March, 2006-8)
50th Anniversary African Studies Association Conference. 21st Century Africa: Evolving Conceptions of Human Rights. NYC (Oct. 2007)
Out of Africa Conference. National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi (July 2006)
Editing Experience (Content)
Peer Editor, International Journal of Diversity in Organizations, Nations & Communities. Common Ground Publishing, Australia (July-Aug. 2007)
Editing Experience (Stylistic, Technical for Global Scholarly Publications, New York City)
Moyne, John A. The Structure of Verbal Constructions in Persian. Global Scholarly Publications: New York. (c) September 2007.
Pashayez, Hafiz. Racing Up Hill: Selected Papers of Azerbaijan’s First Ambassador to the United States of America. Global Scholarly Publications: New York. (c) January 2006.
Edited essays written by Presidents Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan and Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan, speeches by President Islam Karimov of Uzbekistan, Pope Benedict XVI, Kofi Annan, et al in Global Scholarly Publications’ International Journal of Decision Ethics (sponsored by the Department of Educational Studies, Oxford University), Volume 1, Issues 1 (Fall 2004) and 2 (Spring 2005).
Yihong, Liu. “Islamic Education in China and the Characteristics of Chinese Sufi Thought”. Journal of Chinese, Indian, and Islamic Cultural Relations, Volume 1, Issue 2. Global Scholarly Publications: New York. (c) Forthcoming.
Hamid, Idris Samawi. “The Decision Ethics of the Good Will in Kant and Shii Moral Philosophies.” International Journal of Decision Ethics: On Global Conflicts, Higher Education, Business and Economics. Volume II:I, Fall 2005. Sponsor: Department of Educational Studies, Oxford University.
Undergraduate Education
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, United States (2004-2008) GPA: 3.919/4.000; Credits: 168.5
B.A. Summa Cum Laude Political Science, Women’s & Gender Studies, Middle Eastern Studies
Henry Rutgers Honors Thesis: The Collapse of Poland’s Last Frontier (Highest Honors)
Academic Supervision: Dr. Frank J. Popper, Dr. Gordon Schochet, Dr. Briavel Holcomb
IRB/Human Subjects-approved ethnographic study, conducted for the first time ever in Debnica Kaszubska, a rural village in the Pomeranian Voivodeship of northwestern Poland. Includes (a) on-the-ground, informal interviews of local farmers’ experiences with their plots of land in the midst of post-communist Poland’s shift to a capitalistic property structure; (b) English translations of previously un-translated Polish land law Dz.U.2005Nr.169.poz.1419 et al. from 1947, 1981, 1984, 1991, 1994 and 2006; (c) over 1200 documented photographs taken by research assistant, Mr. Neil Anderson (M.A. Hult University, London).
Honor Societies: Phi Beta Kappa (Junior Induction); Phi Sigma Alpha Honor Society (Junior Induction); Rutgers College Honors Program, Henry Rutgers Honors Thesis Program
Activities: Founder and President of Future Female Lawyers’ Society Middle-East Coexistence House, Human Rights House, French House, Institute for Women’s Leadership, Emerging Leaders Institute.
Field School Experience (2005-2008)
National Museums of Kenya Koobi Fora PaleoAnthropological Field School in Illeret, Kenya
Engaged in an paleoanthropological excavation at site FwJj14E on the border of Ethiopia and Kenya where the team excavated the oldest footprints known to human anatomy (see John Roach’s National Geographic article: “Oldest Human Footprints With Modern Anatomy” February 26, 2009) under renowned evolutionary anthropologist: Dr. John H. Harris. The field school lived near a village of Dassanech agro-pastoralists whom we developed a relationship of food inter-dependency. The school also visited Loiyangalani, Maralal, Nairobi, Lake Naivasha, and took daily baths in Lake Turkana.
Study Abroad in Khao Lak, Thailand
I was engaged in a local land, housing and property rights movement led by female Village Chief Ratree Kongwatmai on the beach community of Hat Laem Pom, Thailand after the Andaman-Sumatra Tsunami in December 2004. I worked as a full-time construction worker, sewage installer and human buffer on the beach settlement for two months under the Tsunami Volunteer Center, a local, Thai-run, non-governmental organization. As a member of an international team of volunteers, I was a human buffer in a land-grab dispute between the villagers of Hat Laem Pom and the Far East Trading & Construction Company that illegally bribed the district governor of Phang Nga Province for a land-title for the purposes of building a golf resort on an old tin-mining site that was previously inhabited by the local Thai people for several generations. I have authored “This Land is Our Land”: Local Thai Women’s Struggle for Land and Property Rights in Post-Tsunami Thailand” and have presented it at eight national and international conferences.
National Museums of Kenya Swahili Studies and Coastal Peoples of Kenya Anthropological Field School Conducted independent research under the National Museums of Kenya in Malindi, Mombasa, Lamu, Ileret, and Nairobi on internally-displaced persons due to natural disasters, commercialized farming, human-animal conflict, tourism, land-crowding, social ostracism, et cetera in Kenya. Includes an unpublished paper and an interview with a tsunami survivor from December 2004.
The Global Village Middle East Co-Existence House in Turkey
A fully-funded trip by the Interfaith Dialogue Center (New Jersey) to Istanbul, Konya, Antalya, Bursa, Cappadocia, Izmir which included visiting cultural, archeological and religious sites as well as meetings and interviews with ZAMAN Newspaper journalists, Journalists and Authors Foundation. A promotional documentary about 15 young women of different religious affiliations living together under one house, traveling to a multicultural country, and discussing the role of women in negotiating international conflicts.
The Global Village Human Rights House in Mae-Sot, Thailand
Interviewed former political prisoners from Burma about their experiences with the military and aggression tactics utilized by Burma’s State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) to force the Karen minority and pro-democratic activists out of Burma and into the Thai border town of Mae Sot. Worked with organizers from the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP); Karen Women’s Organization (KWO).
Language Proficiency
Polish (fluent); Ukrainian and Russian (both listening comprehension); French (reading/writing comprehension); Farsi (elementary).
Travel
Canada, China, Egypt, England, Ethiopia, France, Holland, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, Morocco, Norway, Poland, Singapore, Spain, Thailand, Thailand-Burma Border, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Venezuela
Recommendations
Professors: Frank J. Popper (Princeton); Gareth Jones (LSE); Sharad Chari (LSE); John A. Moyne (CUNY); Dr. Barbara Cooper (Rutgers); Cynthia Daniels (Rutgers); Joanna Regulska (Rutgers).
Professionals: Dr. John H. Harris (Koobi Fora Field School, National Museums of Kenya); Dir. Roland Chojnacki (Polish Cultural Institute, London); Dr. Pariz Morewedge (Global Scholarly Publications, NYC).