Education Experts
Lawyer
Falah Shakarm is a lawyer and currently the Iraqi Project Coordinator for WADI, an international NGO working for empowering civil society and human rights, where he manages projects about women and youth and campaign to stop female genital mutilation on an Iraq and Middle East level. In 2013 he wrote the first draft of law for combating FGM which was submitted to the Iraqi Parliaments. Falah serve...
Visiting Researcher, African Studies Center, Boston University; Consultant
Affiliated with the African Studies Center at Boston University, Marc Sommers is an internationally recognized expert on youth concerns in war and post-war countries. After serving as the headmaster of a girls’ school in Kenya and directing a Red Cross-sponsored community health program in New York, Marc earned his Ph.D. in anthropology from Boston University, choosing as his dissertation to...
Professor of Anthropology and French Studies, Georgetown University
Dr. Susan Terrio holds a joint appointment in the Departments of Anthropology and French of Georgetown University. She teaches courses in English and French on social class, cultural systems, national identity, race, ethnicity, migration, and the anthropology of food. Her areas of expertise include migration, ethnicity, human rights, juvenile and immigration law in cross-cultural perspective, food...
Education Reformer and Former Superintendent of the Recovery School District of Louisiana.
Croft Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Sociology and Anthropology Department, Croft Institute for International Studies, The University of Mississippi
Ahmet Yükleyen is a Wilson Center fellow, a non-residential Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace and the Croft Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Mississippi. He studied international relations at Bilkent University and completed his MA degree at the Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver. He received his Ph.D. i...