PhD, Masters & Undergraduate Research

Visiting Scholars

Professor Majid Khan Impact of COVID-19 in youth across the socioeconomic ladder. World Universities Network

Associate Professor Dr Zebun Khan Sexual Harassment of student in STEM and help-seeking behavior (Aligarh University, India & UMass Amherst).

PhD

Alexandra Orsino (Special Education) Children with Disabilities, ACES, Policy and Research, UMass Amherst.

Laurie Mathews, University of Dundee alum – Violence is Preventable project in Palestine 

Pempho Chinkondenji (UMass alum), Assistant Professor, University of North Dakota – trauma-informed framework to address the needs of pregnant refugee schoolgirls. 

Nangyalai Attal. UMass PhD – ethnographic study on school violence and its relationship to radicalization in schools.

Rachel Burns (PhD student) and Celine Mudahakana (PhD student) – Trauma-informed classroom curriculum program (Davis Foundation funded project (I am the PI)

Amrita Adak Reflecting on Translating Experiences in the Healthcare System as a Serbian Refugee, UMass Amherst.

Madelyn Olivier Trauma-informed online learning (World Librarians, UMass Amherst.

Kevin O’Rourke (UMass PhD student) – validity and reliability of the Traumatic Grief Inventory for Children (TGIC) and 
analysis of a pre-post-follow-up study on the efficacy of online EMDR for traumatized health workers during COVID-19).

Rachel Burns Trauma-informed Wilderness Therapy, UMass Amherst.

Carol Cohen (PhD) Efficacy of trauma-informed interventions in High Schools, UMass Amherst.

Gerald Fonville Efficacy of the Teaching Recovery Techniques program with black men in America, UMass Amherst.

Mekhribon Abdullaeva (PhD) Parental Engagement: Perspectives of Uzbek Immigrant Parents, UMass, Amherst.

Olga Correa Understanding the Effectiveness of Participation in a Summer Drop-In Teen Program, UMass, Amherst.

Carol Cohen Efficacy of trauma-informed interventions in High Schools, Independent Study, UMass, Amherst.

Joseph Lumbasi – Internet as a Space and Place by self-defined ritual abuse survivors: A Hermeneutic Approach, University of Dundee.

Aref Alsehaimi – Physical Abuse of Children in Saudi Arabia, University of Dundee.

Lawrie Matthew – Survivors Perspectives on Confidentiality, University of Dundee.

Kafi Al Shammari – Student Nurse Perceptions of Spousal Abuse in Saudi Arabia, University of Dundee.

Dinah Mackins – Art & Child War Trauma – selected by the University of Dundee to apply for the Carnegie PhD Scholaships (in application) involving Dr Arthur Watson, School of Humanities, Dr Elanine Shemilt, Duncan of Jordanston and Dr Ian Barron, School of Education and Social Work.

Faisal Rashid – Child Sexual Abuse by Clerics (Pakistan).

Masters in Humanitarian Action

Emilia Munteanu, Workers needs and experiences of coping in refugee camps, University of Malta.

Eliza Fenech, Place of Religion in Refugee Coping, International relations, University of Malta.

Masters in Education/school counseling

Lis Hill, Literature Review: Depression in Children in Domestic Violence Refuges, University of Dundee.

Audra Dankwardt – Narrative review on children with ADHD in US schools to enable me to contribute as co-author. Progress is slow as Audra is currently adapting to her new PhD program at Boston University.

Undergraduate

Madison Palmer (UMass alum), Stanford Medical School –  Cultural Safety for Native American experience of mainstream US health providers populations, UMass Amherst.

Maysoun Batley (UMass alum), University of Columbia –  How Western feminism influences the perception of Palestinian journalists in Gaza within media representations.’

Ruya Hazeyen (UMass alum), University of Colombia – Dissociation in adolescents in occupied Palestine. 

Shaheed Abraham (UMass undergraduate) – Help Seeking Behavior in Women and Children in Gaza and the West Bank.

Amira Oudeh & Tahmina Nizam. Impact of Summer Camps on Child Trauma, University of Dundee.