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Renzo Di Felice is currently Professor of Chemical Reaction Engineering at the University of Genoa (Italy). He obtained his Batchelor Degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of L'Aquila (Italy) in 1981, then his Ph. D. and D. Sc. (Eng) from the University of London (U.K.) in 1988 and 1997 respectively, both in the field of Chemical Engineering. Previous university experiences include University College London, London (UK), the University of Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) and the National University of Singapore (Singapore).  Renzo Di Felice's research activity is focused on the fluid dynamic behaviour of two-and three-phase systems, with particular relevance on liquid fluidisation and on granular flow. He also investigates the physical and chemical behaviour of multiphase reactors and he has authored more than 100 papers in international scientific journals. Renzo Di Felice is a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), of the Institutions of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) and of the Italian Association of Chemical Engineering (AIDIC) for which he is currently responsible for the Chemical Reaction Division.

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Dr. Dalia El Khoury is a Clinical Nutritionist, with the main area of research being the role of macronutrient manipulation of diets in appetite regulation in health and diseases. After graduation from AUB with a BS in Nutrition and as a recipient of Penrose Award and Sutherland Prize in 2002, she had her intensive internship in Dietetics and Therapeutic Nutrition at AUB-MC for 11 months. Afterwards, she joined again AUB to obtain her MSc in Nutrition in 2005. Following that, she immediately had the chance to work as a research assistant at the faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, AUB, over a period of almost 2 years. Then, she completed her PhD in Physiology and Physiopathology at Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France, in December 2008. Since then, she has been assigned as a part-time lecturer during Spring Semester 2009 in the Nutrition Department, AUB, where she taught Advanced Therapeutic Nutrition, and as a research consultant during Summer Semester 2009. She will be joining the Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences as a full-time lecturer in Clinical Nutrition.

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Joshua David Gonsalves (Ph.D.; NYU, 2002) works on British Romanticism, the Long Eighteenth-century and Nineteenth-century Poetry, Literature & Culture (including Continental figures; i.e., his participation in a 2009 National Humanities Center Summer Seminar entitled Reading Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal). He has previously taught in the USA (New York University / Rice University) and Canada (Dalhousie University). Dr. Gonsalves is presently revising Keats Goes Global: Close Reading and the Geopolitics of Cultural Production for publication and is also at work on a second project—a genealogy of the cinema as a cultural mode for visualizing geopolitical conflict: Screening War: The Construction of “Geopolitics” in Pre-Cinematic Mass Culture: 1789-1914. Professor Gonsalves has published in top-tier journals such as Studies in Romanticism, Modern Language Notes, The Wordsworth Circle and Romanticism on the Net: An International Refereed Electronic Journal devoted to Romantic Studies. His most recent article—“Byron’s Venetian Masque of the French Revolution: Sovereignty, Terror, and the Geopolitics of Marino Faliero and The Two Foscari”—is forthcoming in Byron and the Politics of Freedom and Terror (Palgrave, 2010). His research and teaching interests also include Psychoanalysis; Geopolitics and the History/Theory of War; (Pre) Cinema Studies; Continental Philosophy, Theory & Literary Criticism; and Animal Studies (supplemented by an extra-curricular interest in a Husky-Alsatian named Cyberia).

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Dr. Eveline Hitti graduated with an M.D. degree from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD in 2002. After which, she completed three years of residency training in Emergency Medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital in 2005. She is certified by the American Board of Emergency Medicine and has worked at Franklin Square Hospital Center Emergency Department in Baltimore, MD for the past four years as an Attending Physician.                                                                                            Dr. Hitti has a certificate in Business of Medicine from the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School where she is currently completing her M.B.A. Her work has focused on improving key quality measures for severely septic patients and improving emergency department throughput.                                                                       Dr. Hitti will be involved in teaching, research and clinical activities at the Department of Emergency Medicine.

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Carol Arnold earned a B.A. in English and Political Science from Colorado State University-Pueblo in 1994, and a M.A in English and Cultural Studies from Kansas State University in 1996.  From 1997-1999, she taught at Dr. Petar Beron Foreign Language High School in Kyustendil, Bulgaria, and from 2000-2008, she taught at Koc University in Istanbul, Turkey

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Having graduated with a B.S. in computer engineering from France, Hoda returned to Lebanon in 1996 where she was appointed in the college of Engineering at the Lebanese University as a Database administrator.
She received her Ph.D. in Instructional Technology from the University
of Tennessee-Knoxville in Spring 2009. During her studies, she was
offered a research and teaching assistantship. She taught multimedia
courses as well as applications for integrating technology in
classrooms. Her objective is to conduct research ? both quantitative
and qualitative ? to improve techniques for making learning more
accessible and enjoyable. Her research interests include online
learning communities, ubiquitous computing using Free Open Source
Software, and the effectiveness of multimedia in teaching and learning.

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Coralie Hindawi studied law and earned a M.A. in European Law from
Pierre Mend`es France University, Grenoble, France in 2000. She then
specialized in International Security and worked between 2003 and 2008
as an associate researcher at the Centre d?Etudes sur la Sécurité Internationale et les
Coopérations Européennes (Grenoble, France) and at the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute for socio-cultural research(Freiburg, Germany).In December 2008, she completed her PhD in International Security and Political Sciences from the University Pierre Mendes France and the Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg ; her study focused on  the use of coercion against Iraq since April 1991 and its impact.Coralie will be joining the Political Studies and Public Administration Department as an Assistant Professor in International Law and International Relations

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Noel Ignatiev received his PhD from Harvard in the History of American Civilization. He is author of How the Irish Became White (recently reissued as a Routledge Classic), coeditor of Race Traitor (winner of the 1996 American Book Award), editor of Lesson of the Hour: Wendell Phillips on Abolition and Strategy, and author of numerous articles.
He has been a fellow at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University and a Regents Fellow at the University of California-Riverside. When not at AUB he teaches in the Liberal Arts Department at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. His next publication, A New Notion: Two Articles by C.L.R. James, is scheduled for December from PM Press.



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Haitham is an Industrial and Organizational (I/O) psychologist whose graduate work focused on the development and validation of a measure of culture and its impact on the workplace and the workforce, specifically the relationship between traditional work outcomes like stress, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment. His research interests also include examining the applicability of Western-developed tools and assessments in non-Western arenas including core I/O processes and concepts such as selection systems and instruments, performance management processes, as well as leadership and organizational justice. Upon completing his B.A. in Psychology from AUB, Haitham was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to pursue his research and graduate career in I/O at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida. Throughout his tenure at USF Haitham taught courses on research methods, tests and measures, statistics, and social psychology. After obtaining his Ph.D. Haitham worked as an independent consultant for 2 years with the Home Depot’s Organizational Effectiveness team specializing in developing selection tools for positions across the company, employee opinion surveys, 360 performance evaluation, executive assessment and feedback, and employee assessments.

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Adam Klein earned his MA in English from San Francisco State University and
his MFA in Creative Writing from The New School for General Studies. He isthe author of the novel, "Tiny Ladies;" the Lambda Book Award -nominated,short story collection, "The Medicine Burns;" and the artist monograph"Jerome: After the Pageant." His short stories have been published in Bomb magazine, and several "Best of" collections by Penguin/Plume and Little,
Brown publishers. He was a visiting Fulbright lecturer in India, and a
former Peace Corps Volunteer in Bangladesh. He taught film, fiction and
creative writing at University of San Francisco, The New School, and The
Writer’s Voice in New York City. His art rock band has been featured at new
media and video conferences around the world, including "Our Literal
Speed," sponsored by The University of Chicago and Princeton. He is writing
his second novel, "The Forks."
 

Cornelia Krafft since having graduated in stage design ´97 from the
Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna has dedicated her artistic approach with specific respect for natural materials to the transformation of
literature into transient spaces of all different forms and
media:performance, installation ,film, photography and painting. Over
the last 6 years she has been lecturing in the class of Stage and Film
Set Design at the Institute of Fine and Media Arts of the University
of Applied Arts, Vienna. To develop the concepts for stage designs she
involves the students also physically with a special focus on
performance and installation to create the dramatic architecture. In
several co-operations with other European Art Academies Cornelia
Krafft gained an international view on the possibilities to lecture
and study the spatial transformation of texts using also the nature as
stage.
http://www.corneliakrafft.com
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Lokman I. Meho earned a B.A. and M.A. in Political Studies from AUB in 1991 and 1996, respectively. He also earned a PhD in Information and Library Science in December 2001 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Before joining AUB, he was a tenured Associate Professor and Director of the Master of Library Science program at the School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University Bloomington. Effective October 1, 2009, he will be the University Librarian at the AUB. Dr. Meho is the author of several major bibliographies, including The Kurds and Kurdistan: A Selective and Annotated Bibliography (Greenwood, 1997), Libraries and Information in the Arab World (Greenwood, 1999), Kurdish Culture and Society: An Annotated Bibliography (Greenwood, 2001), The Kurdish Question in U.S. Foreign Policy: A Documentary Sourcebook (Praeger
Publishers, 2004), and Censorship in the Arab World (Scarecrow Press, 2006). He is the author of several articles that appeared in The American Archivist, The Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, and Library and Information Science Research. Dr. Meho�s research interests are in the areas of citation analysis, bibliometrics, scientometrics, and scholarly communication and his teaching interests included reference, online searching, social science information, and computer applications. He is the recipient of several teaching and best paper awards.

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Nadine Mikati graduated from the American University of Beirut in  2006 with a B.S. degree in Nutrition and Dietetics as well as a  minor in Biology. She then travelled to Michigan where she earned  her R.D. (Registered Dietitian) credentials (2008) and her M.S  degree in Nutrition and Food Science at Wayne State University,  Michigan (2009).
Nadine has worked as a clinical Dietitian at the  Detroit Medical Center (DMC) and an
instructor at Wayne State  University for the past two years. Nadine has received many awards  along the way, with the most recent one being: Registered Young  Dietitian of the year (2009) from the American Dietetic Association  (ADA). She has also been active members of the ADA, Michigan  Dietetic Association (MDA) as well as the Southeastern Michigan  Dietetic Association (SEMDA) since 2007. She was also on the board  of directors for SEMDA: bylaws committee co-chair.
Nadine is very eager to start her new venture here at AUB and she  will be joining the
Nutrition department as an Instructor.

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Randa Serhan was born in Beirut and raised in Kuwait. Growing up in a
household with an academic father, her paths into academia and
sociology were set early on. She received her BA in Sociology and
Anthropology from the American University of Beirut with HighDistinction. She then went on to the University of Windsor, where she earned a MA in sociology and wrote a thesis on honor crimes. This was followed by two years of teaching introductory sociology at AUB before going on to Columbia University, where she earned another MA, a MPhil, and most recently a PhD in Sociology. Her dissertation committee was
comprised of Charles Tilly (until his passing in 2008), Herbert Gans,Gil Eyal, Saskia Sassen, Rashid al-Khalidi, and Lila Abu-Lughod. The title of the work was: Suspended Community: An ethnographic study of Palestinian-Americans in New York and New Jersey. Randa was awarded the Lazarsfeld Fellowship for five year from Columbia
University to pursue the PhD program in Sociology. She was also awarded the Cordier Fellowship at the School of International and Public Affairs (Columbia University) for two years (2007-2009). Aside from her three years of teaching assistanceships, she taught courses in immigration, introductory sociology, and theories of international
politics. Her research interests include: immigration, citizenship, youth in the Arab world, collective action, and state-building.

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Accomplished Pediatric Nurse Practitioner and Medical Anthropologist
with extensive clinical, teaching, program development and administrative experience; focusing on areas that include maternal
child health, adolescent, family and community health in the US and internationally. Instrumental in developing healthcare programs in Armenia and other countries in Eastern Europe that focus on critical public health issues. Secured numerous grants to help expand pediatric care throughout the US. Conducted research on topics impacting children, adolescents and women, and serves as graduate student research advisor at numerous universities including Yale, University
of Connecticut and Johns Hopkins University. Known for intellectual flexibility, critical thinking skills, and as an experienced educator, pediatric primary care provider and qualitative researcher.  Fulbright Scholar Award in 2003.

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Neil Yorke-Smith is an Assistant Professor of Business Information and
Decision Systems at the Suliman S. Olayan School of Business, American University of Beirut.  His research interests include planning and scheduling, preference modelling, machine learning and data mining, agents, and their real-world applications.  Previously, Dr.
Yorke-Smith was a Visiting Lecturer at Stanford University and a
Research Scientist at SRI International, where he led design of
personalized intelligent agent technology.  Dr. Yorke-Smith received
his Ph.D. from Imperial College London with thesis research focused on
handling uncertainty in business applications of constraint-based
reasoning.

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