Certificate in Women’s Leadership in a Global Perspective

Meet the Faculty

The Certificate program draws on the knowledge and expertise of UMass Boston’s international faculty. Students in this program will have the opportunity to work with and learn from renowned academics and practitioners, who will offer a real world perspective on women and leadership.

Fatemeh Haghighatjoo
Dr. Haghighatjoo is a former member of the Iranian Parliament. She is a former assistant in-resident of University of Connecticut’s women’s studies program and Iran’s national university counseling department faculty. She earned a PhD. in counseling from Tarbiat Moalem University in Tehran, Iran. Her expertise is women’s issues and public policy in Iran. She taught women in global perspective, women in Iran and family counseling. She wrote many articles and has been quoted in newspapers as an expert on Iranian affairs expert. She has had Talk Shows for Persian TVs such as BBC and voice of America.
Amani El-Jack
Dr. Amani El-Jack is Assistant Professor in the Department of Women’s Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She holds a Ph.D. in Women’s Studies from York University, Canada; an MA in Political Sciences from the American University in Cairo, Egypt; and a B.Sc. (Honors) in Political Sciences from University of Khartoum, Sudan. Dr. El Jack’s research and teaching traverse socio-economic, political and cultural interrogation of the gendered fields of development studies; globalization; forced migration; militarization/war; post-conflict reconstruction processes; peace building and human security.
Carol Hardy-Fanta
Dr. Carol Hardy-Fanta is Director of the Graduate Certificate Program for Women in Politics and Public Policy at UMass Boston’s John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies. She received her Ph.D. in Public Policy from Brandeis University’s Heller School, an MSW from Smith College, and a B.A. from Occidental College. Dr. Hardy-Fanta is author of three books: Latina Politics, Latino Politics: Gender, Culture, and Political Participation in Boston (Temple University Press, 1993); Latino Politics in Massachusetts: Struggles, Strategies and Prospects (Routledge Press, 2002); Intersectionality and Politics: Recent Research in Gender, Race and Political Representation in the United States (Haworth Press, 2006); and Race, Gender, and the Changing Face of Political Leadership in 21st Century America (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2011). She is a nationally recognized scholar on Latina/o politics and has published widely on the intersection of gender, race and ethnicity in politics and public policy and is Co-Editor of the Journal of Women, Politics & Policy.
Ban Al-Mahfodh
Ban Al-Mahfodh is the Research Coordinator at the William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences. Ms. Al-Madfodh received her B.A. from the University of Basra in 1997, majoring in English Language and Literature with a minor in translation in Arabic and French. She also received her M.A. in Applied Linguistics from the University of Basra, Iraq, in 2000. Most recently, she received an additional M.A. from Brandeis where she studied at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management. Her work at the Heller School focused on issues such as Advanced Study in Sustainable International Development, Conflict Theory, Coexistence Strategies, Art and Peacebuilding, and Development and Conflict. Her master’s thesis, "YIELA: A Youth Business Entrepreneurship Model in Iraqi City Slums as a Sustainable Instrument of Peace within the Conflict Situation," drew on her work in Iraq. Ms. Al-Madfodh’s work experience before coming to the Center includes an internship in Youth and Philanthropy for the Near East Foundation in New York and work as project manager for Save the Children in Basra from 2003-2005.
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