Dr. Hawzhin joined the Center for Gender and Development Studies as a full-semester Visiting Scholar for the fall semester, 2019. Dr. Hawzhin, whose PhD is from the University of Newcastle, Australia, works on a variety of topics in Political Science, with a focus on nation building and post war reconstruction. Her thesis project was “Reconstructing Iraq: Iraq State-Building, Nation-Building, and Violence.” She has travelled internationally, giving talks on political issues relating to migration flow and displacement, gender rights, and Middle Eastern politics with a specialization in Iraq and Syria. She worked for four years in the Middle East with local and international NGOs, and established a non-profit organization to assist with post war construction in the Middle East and the Mediterranean. Dr. Hawzhin taught our gender minor course LIT 350/GEN350, “Gendered Representations of Genocide.” She also worked on her own research and with various CGDS projects.
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