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faculty news
Author and Academic Preparatory Program (APP) lecturer Alex Poppe’s latest book, Moxie, has received a round of positive reviews, most notably by the Massachusetts Review on May 1, 2019. Released in 2018 by Tortoise Books, Moxie follows the story of magazine model Jax whose face is disfigured after a bomb attack.
“In lines like this, Poppe’s writing draws the reader into Jax’s experience of disability and trauma with language that simulates her narrator’s personal disorientation, but it’s this same gruesomely funny language that gives Jax momentum to move forward,” writes Allison Bird Treacy.
Commenting on the appeal of her latest publication, Poppe said, “The book resonates with readers, especially readers caught in the liminal space, trying to find their way.”
The Center for Gender and Development Studies is pleased to announce the recent publication of "The Construct of Disability in Ancient Greece and Rome” by Dr. Lynn Rose, Professor in the Social Sciencesat American University of Iraq, Sulaimani (AUIS). The article, co-authored with C. F. Goodey, appears in the Oxford Companion to Disability History, ed. M. Rembis, C. Kudlick, and S. Burch (Oxford University Press, 2018).
Dr. Rose said, "The article seeks to dispel the notion of disability as a static concept. Physical, mental, and learning disabilities vary over time and from one culture to the next. In ancient Greece and Rome, the meaning of what we today would call a 'disability' was shaped by one's socio-economic status, not to the configuration of the characteristic."
On July 19-20, 2016, Dr. Farzad Sanati, assistant professor at AUIS Department of Information Technology, was invited to speak at a seminar on e-government at the University of Sydney. The seminar was arranged for a Chinese government delegation traveling to Australia to learn more about the Australian experience in implementation of e-government. The event focused on the foundations, implementation, methodologies and practical challenges facing the e-government paradigm.
Dr. Sanati has extensive experience in e-government and ICT projects in Australia and in an advisory role to the e-government and ICT department of Jiangsu Province in China. He also completed his PhD in computing science from the University of Technology Sydney for his research work on e-government integration methodologies. Last year, Dr. Sanati organized a joint e-government conference with the University of Sulaimani in Kurdistan. The event was attended by leading academics, government (KRG) executives, and ICT industry leaders to exchange and share their experiences and opinions on implementing e-Government in Kurdistan.
