Riding from Jerusalem through the seven Spheres of the Planets on his Horse Boraq, the Prophet Mohammed. Banu Amir. No other country flourished like his. the farthest horizons. Success and …

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ph.D. Computational Biology 2015 Advisor: Tomaso Poggio Thesis title: The dynamics of invariant object and action recognition in the human visual system. …

Having lived through the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Leyla Ismayilova’s life experiences shaped her professional journey. “Before the collapse, every one’s life was more or less the same under …

Leyla Zana became the first and only ethnically Kurdish woman elected to Turkey's Parliament. She openly identified herself as a Kurd at her inauguration in 1991 and promised in Kurdish to "struggle …

Assistant Professor of Economics, Syracuse University, August 2014-Present. Ph.D., Economics, Johns Hopkins University, 2008-2014. Dissertation: Essays on the Dynamics of Institutional Reform. …

My research investigates how feminist collectives in Latin America contest policing techniques and instead promote community-based initiatives to dismantle institutional violence. My areas of …

Exploring rape as an instrument of genocide, the paper focuses on the Bosnian war of the early 1990’s to show that repeated gang rapes are part of the official policy of the Serbian leadership.