Visiting Scholars
2009-2010
Professor Fatima Badry
Dr. Fatima Badry holds a PhD from the University of California at Berkeley. She is professor and head of the Department of English at the American University of Sharjah, UAE. She has also served as graduate programs director at the College of Arts and Sciences at AUS.
Professor Badry’s research interests are in the areas of first and second language acquisition, globalization and higher education, Arabic sociolinguistics, bilingualism and cultural identity issues. Her current project is “The shifting Sands of Arabness: The cost of modernity.” She is investigating the language-in-education-policies adopted by the UAE and their impact on the development of biliteracy in Arabic and English of the UAE residents of the next generation. The nature of the social, cultural and identity transformations that are likely to result from the "Englishization" of the educational sector will also be explored.
Her recent publications include: Acquiring the Arabic Lexicon: Evidence of productive strategies and pedagogical implications. Bethesda, Maryland: Academica Press. (2004). “Productivity in Child language: Evidence from Arabic.” In Alhawary, M. & Benmamoun, E. Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XVII- XVIII. Current issues in linguistic theory. Amsterdam: Benjamins (2005). “Positioning the self, identity and language: Moroccan women on the move” in S. Ossman (ed) (2007). The places we share. Lexington Books.Rowman and Littlefield. “Acquisition of Arabic as a first language.” in Encyclopedia of the Arabic language and linguistics. Germany: Brill. (2007). “Vocabulary in ESL writing: Lessons from research in the classroom” In S. Midraj, A. Jendli and A. Sellami (eds.) (2007). Research in ELT Contexts. Dubai: TESOL Arabia. The Pyjama Trail Affair: A case study in child labor. In The World of Child Labor: An Historical and Regional Survey. (2009). M.E. Sharpe, Inc.
2008-2009
Professor Susan H. Perry
Professor Susan H. Perry, a sinologist and specialist in international human rights law, holds degrees from Brown, Yale and Oxford universities and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (University of Paris). She is the current Chair of the Division of Politics and Government at The American University of Paris.
Both a scholar and an activist, Professor Perry is the co-founder and organizer of the French Senate Conference series on "Women, Culture and Development Practices", and has been invited to present her research on women’s rights at the JFK School of Government at Harvard, Berkeley, UCLA, Indiana University, the OECD and UNESCO. Publications include Eye to Eye: Women Practicing Development Across Cultures (ZED Books, 2001), as well as a special issue on "Women's New Development Paradigms" for Signs, the flagship journal on women's studies in the United States (University of Chicago Press, 2004). Dr. Perry has worked extensively in China and in Africa as a women’s rights consultant for the US State Department's Guest Speakers program.
Dr. Perry’s extensive experience in education and activism has led to the development of the first graduate programs at the American University of Paris, in International Affairs, in International Public Policy, and in Civil Society Communications. Her research interests include gender and human rights law, as well as human rights discourses amongst diaspora communities from Asia and Africa . She is currently writing a book on the paradox of human rights implementation in China.