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Division of Business and Economics

AL-JAMAL, Ali,
Assistant Professor of Economics; Ph.D., 1999, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA.

ANKLI, Robert E.,
Visiting Professor of Operations Management; Ph.D., 1969, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA.

AL-SABAH, Mariam,
Instructor of Finance and Marketing; M.Sc., 2008, Cass Business School, City University London, London, UK.

AL-SALEM, Athmar,
Associate Professor of Management; D.Sc., 1989, School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS), The George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA.

BAGNIED, Mohsen,
Associate Professor of Marketing and Management; Ph.D., 1973, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA.

CADER, Hanas,
Assistant Professor of Economics; Ph.D., 2006, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, USA.

CARRADA-BRAVO, Francisco,
Professor of Finance; Ph.D., 1981, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, USA.

CHIEMEKE, Charles,
Assistant Professor of Economics; Ph.D., 2004, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Vienna, Austria.

CRIPPS, Jeremy,
Professor of Accounting; FCA, CPA, FCCA; Ph.D., 1992, Union Institute and University, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA; Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales; Certified Public Accountant (Ohio); Fellow of the Association of Chartered and Certified Accountants

DAKHLI, Mourad,
Associate Professor of International Business and Management; Ph.D., 2002, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, USA.

DENNY, Marcia,
Assistant Professor of Law; J.D., 1984, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, USA.

GOODPASTURE, James,
Visiting Assistant Professor of Accounting; Ph.D., 1999, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA.

HADDAD, Ayman,
Assistant Professor of Accounting; Ph.D., 2006, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.

MACDONALD, Penny,
Associate Professor of Management; Ph.D., 2005, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.

MACDONALD, Robin,
Associate Professor of Management; Ph.D., 2002, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.

MANSOUR, Aly,
Associate Professor of Management; Ed.D., 1994, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA.

MERZA, Ebrahim,
Assistant Professor of Economics; Ph.D., 2007, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, USA.

PALLIAM, Ralph,
Associate Professor of Business Administration; D. Comm., 1998, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.

RITCHIE, Robert J.,
Visiting Associate Professor of Law; J.D., 1983, Temple University School of Law, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; MBA, 1999, Boston University School of Management, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

RUSSELL, John,
Professor of Accounting; CGA, CMA, Ph.D., 1998, Pennsylvania State University, College Park, Pennsylvania, USA; Member of the Certified General Accountants of Canada; Member of the Society of Management Accountants, Manitoba, Canada.

RUTLAND, John,
Associate Professor of Business; Ph.D., 1983, University of Washington, Seattle, Seattle, Washington, USA.

SBEITI, Wafaa,
Assistant Professor of Economics and Finance; Ph.D., 2008, Durham University, Durham, UK.


Division of Humanities and Arts 

AHMAD, Rizwan,
Assistant Professor of English; Ph.D., 2007, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

AKBAR, Mohammad,
Assistant Professor of Communication; Ph.D., 2005, American University in London, London, UK.

ALAKI, Ahlam,
Assistant Professor of English; Ph.D., 2002, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.

AL-HUMAIDI, Hamed,
Assistant Professor of Arabic; Ph.D., 2003, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.

AL-KHOULI, Khitam,
Instructor of Arabic, Ph.D., 2008, Institute of Arabic Research, Cairo, EGYPT.

ANDERSEN, William,
Assistant Professor of Studio Arts/Graphic Design; M.F.A, 2000, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

AWWAD, Rawda,
Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature; Ph.D., 1997, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

DeANGELIS, Angelica,
Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature; Ph.D., 2002, University of California-Santa Barbara, California, USA.

FARRIN, Raymond,
Assistant Professor of Arabic Language and Literature; Ph.D., 2006, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA.

FIANNACA, Joseph,
Instructor of French Language and Literature; M.A., 2002, Stendhal University, Grenoble, France.

GILLIER-PAGENAUD, Florence,
Instructor of Spanish and French Language; M.A., 1991, University of Caen, France and University of Salamanca, Spain; M.A. 1992,University of Poitiers, France.

GOTTSCHALK, Christopher,
Assistant Professor of Humanities (Theater/Drama); M.F.A., 2003, University of San Diego, San Diego, California, USA.

HOSSEINNIA, Maryam,
Assistant Professor of Graphic Design; M.F.A., 2002, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

KAPOSI, Ildiko,
Assistant Professor of Communication; Ph.D., 2006, Central European University, Budapest,Hungary.

KHAIR, Ramy,
Assistant Professor of Graphic Design; M.P.S., 2002, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, New York, USA.

KLEYPAS, Kathryn,
Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature; Ph.D., 2001, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York, USA.

KONONOVA, Anastasia,
Assistant Professor of Journalism and Communication; Ph.D., 2010, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA.

KULCHITSKY, Marcella,
Assistant Professor of Graphic Design; M.F.A., 1989, The School of Visual Arts at Boston University College of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

LAWRENCE, Sharon Orleans,
Assistant Professor of Studio Arts; M.F.A., 2007, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia, USA.

LOOMIS, Craig,
Associate Professor of English Language and Literature; Ph.D., 1992, University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, USA.

McDOUGALL, James,
Assistant Professor of English; Ph.D., 2007, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.

MITCHELL, Charles,
Instructor of Journalism; M.S., 2001, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, New York, New York, USA.

MOHAMED, Ghaidaa,
Instructor of Arabic; M.A., 2005, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA.

NASSIR, Ghazi,
Associate Professor of English Language and Literature; Ph.D., 1989, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA.

NIXON, Kathy,
Assistant Professor of English; Ph.D., 2008, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.

O’MEARA, Simon,
Associate Professor of Art History; Ph.D., 2004, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.

QUEEN, Mary,
Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature; Ph.D., 2005, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, USA.

SATTI, Mohamed,
Assistant Professor of Communication/Media; Ph.D., 2009, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, USA.

TAMIMI, Maher M.,
Instructor of Arabic; M.A., 1998, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA.

URKEVICH, Lisa,
Associate Professor of Musicology/Ethnomusicology; Ph.D., 1997, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA.

ZAVALIY, Andrei G.,
Assistant Professor of Philosophy; Ph.D., 2008, City University of New York, New York, New York, USA.


Division of Sciences and Engineering

ABU AL-MAATI, Shereef,
Associate Professor of Computer Science and Information Systems; Ph.D., 1998, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida, USA.

ABURSHAID, Dima,
Instructor of Computer Science; M.Sc., 2003, Kuwait University, Kuwait.

AFRASSIABI, Alidad,
Instructor of Mathematics; B.Sc., 2002, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, London, UK.

AL-MUTAIRI, Mutlaq,
Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Ph.D., 2004, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, USA.

AWAD, Mohamad Khattar,
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ph.D., 2009, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

BASHA, Noura,
Lab Instructor of Chemistry & Biology; B. S. in Medical Laboratory, 2003, Kuwait University, Kuwait.

CHARARA, Ali,
Assistant Professor of Biology; Ph.D., 1997, Laval University, Qu�bec City, Qu�bec, Canada.

DAMAJ, Issam,
Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering; Ph.D., 2004, London South Bank University, London, UK.

EL-ABD, Mohammed,

Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering, Ph.D., 2008, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

EL MORR, Christo,
Assistant Professor of Information Systems; Ph.D., 1997, Compiegne University of Technology, Compiegne, France.

ERDOGDU AL-OMARI, Zeynep Pirin,
Assistant Professor of Math and Physics, Ph.D., 2004, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge University, UK.

GEORGI, Donia,
Lab Instructor of Physics, M.Sc., Physics 1998, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, India.

GHULOUM, Abdulaziz,
Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Information Systems; Ph.D., 2008, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA.

HART, David,
Instructor of Computer Science and Information Systems; M.A., 1991, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

JALLAD, Karim,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry; Ph.D., 2001, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA.

LIVSEY, Monique D.,
Instructor of Mathematics; M. Arch, 1999, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

MAHASSEN, Hania,
Assistant Professor of Mathematics; Ph.D., 2007, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, USA.

MOSAAD, Neamat,
Associate Professor of Physics; Ph.D., 1987, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, UK.

RISHARD, Mohamed Z.,
Assistant Professor, Chemistry Lab; Ph.D., 2007, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA.

TESSIER, Fernand,
Associate Professor of Mathematics; M.Sc., 1970, McGill University, Montreal, Qu�bec, Canada.

ZEID, Amir,
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Ph.D., 2000, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.


Division of Social Sciences

AL-AWADI, Hesham,
Associate Professor of History and International Relations; Ph.D., 2003, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.

DINKHA, Juliet,
Associate Professor of Psychology; Psy.D., 2000, Illinois School of Professional Psychology, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

HAMZEH, Nizar,
Professor of Political Science; Ph.D., 1986, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA.

KELLY, Marjorie,
Assistant Professor of Anthropology; Ph.D., 1993, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA.

KULCHITSKY, Dmytro Roman,
Assistant Professor of International Studies and Public Policy; Ph.D., 2001, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA.

MUNSHI, Shoma,
Professor of Anthropology; Ph.D., 1990, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France.

OHAN, Christopher,
Associate Professor of History; Ph.D., 1997, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas, USA.

VATANDOUST, Gholamreza,

Visiting Associate Professor of International Relations and History; Ph.D., 1977, University of Washington, Seattle, Seattle, Washington, USA.

IRANI, George Emile, (girani@auk.edu.kw)
Visiting Associate Professor of International Studies; Ph.D., 1984, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA.

LUCIANO, Pellegrino,
Assistant Professor of Anthropology; Ph.D., 2005, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA.

ROSE, James L.
Assistant Professor of Psychology; Ph.D.,1999,Universityof Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.

   

 
 
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