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Dear CASL Community Members,
It gives me great pleasure to introduce you all to our newest faculty colleagues. I am sure that you will agree (as our new hires' records make clear) that the college continues to attract outstanding faculty. Our academic programs, our students, and the college's research profile are all enhanced through such stellar hires.
Once again, the various search committees involved in this process are to be commended. Thank you all for your hard work.
Please join me in welcoming our new colleagues to campus.
Martin J. Hershock, Dean
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Kathleen Darcy
Assistant Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Kathleen Darcy received her Ph.D. in criminal justice from Michigan State University. Her research is interdisciplinary and primarily focuses on examining gender inequity, especially how the law impacts those affected by gender-based violence and when abuse occurs in institutional settings (prison, higher education, the military). Kathleen received her Juris Doctorate from Michigan State University College of Law in 2013 and is licensed to practice law in the state of Michigan. She recently published, "'Terrified of a system I didn’t understand': Women’s experiences reporting sexual abuse on parole" in Feminist Criminology.
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Bushra HussainLecturer III in Physics
Bushra Hussain received her Ph.D. in physics from Western University, London, Ontario, Canada and has just finished working there as a postdoctoral researcher. Her work focused on the field of material science with connections to optics, and included computational studies that involve magnetization dynamics of magnetic nanostructures to model the behavior of spin waves (Magnons). During her time as a postdoc, Bushra published five peer-reviewed articles. Her teaching experience includes both entry and senior level undergraduate physics courses, and the coordination of physics laboratories.
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Adam SekulerAssistant Professor of Journalism and Media Production
Adam Sekuler is a filmmaker, curator, educator and editor. Screening in forums and film festivals throughout the US and internationally, his many alternative films strike a delicate balance between stylization and naturalism, creating a poetic and lyrical form of visual storytelling. He's interested in the intersection of documentary and fiction filmmaking practices. Adam holds an MFA in studio arts from the University of Colorado, Boulder, is founder and programmer of Radar: Exchanges in Dance Film Frequencies, and was program director for Northwest Film Forum (Seattle). Before arriving at UM-Dearborn, he taught at Loyola University in New Orleans and Skidmore College in Saratoga Spring.
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Amny ShuraydiAssistant Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Amny Shuraydi, a CASL JASS alumna from 2011, received her Ph.D. in criminology from the University of Texas at Dallas in 2018. She returns “home” to CASL after working as the academic coordinator for the Texas A&M-Commerce Masters in Applied Criminology program and teaching courses in Counterintelligence, Red-Teaming, Corrections, and Media & Crime. Amny has recently presented her research on “The impact of hate crimes on Muslim perspectives and routines” and submitted a grant proposal on “Assessing the root causes of school shooting violence: A cross-sectional and spatial analysis.”
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Pauline Homsi VinsonVisiting Assistant Professor and Interim Director of the Center for Arab American Studies
Originally from Lebanon, Pauline Homsi Vinson has taught literature at universities in the U.S., Malaysia, and the U.A.E. She is co-founder and current president of the Arab American Studies Association (AASA). She also co-founded and chaired the Global Arab and Arab American Literature forum at the MLA. Pauline's research interests and publications include translations from Arabic to English, Arab American literature, The Thousand and One Nights, and Shakespeare, with attention to gender, race, migration, the environment, and literary adaptations. Her current project explores the subversive potential of storytelling in Arab American writing and is tentatively titled Transporting Tales: Echoes of the Thousand and One Nights in Contemporary Arab American Literature.
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Besa XhabijaAssistant Professor of Biochemistry
Besa Xhabija received her Ph.D. in chemistry and biochemistry from the University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada and then continued on to a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Karmanos Cancer Institute and Wayne State University School of Medicine in the Department of Oncology. Her work there focused on studying stem cell and cancer epigenetics, specifically evaluating the functions of chromatin modifying enzymes in self-renewal and genome stability. Besa joins the faculty in the Department of Natural Sciences after teaching biochemistry at UM-Flint and focusing her research on studying the effects of environmental toxins, nanomaterials, and drugs in human development utilizing embryonic stem (ES) cells.
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