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Office of Student Life: ART FEST
Dive into the Student Life Art Festival! Explore vibrant art forms, discover new interests, and celebrate creativity.
Zoe Carver, Olatunji Osho-Willaims
September 22, 2025
This fall we are welcoming fourteen new faculty members to the AUC community! The incoming faculty are bringing their diverse backgrounds and varied research interests to AUC, with studies ranging from food assistance programs to climate responsive design to jazz pedagogy and everything in between. We’re happy to welcome them to the University and get to know them through their video introductions.
Get to Know Our New Faculty
Our new faculty members are arriving to campus this fall with fresh perspectives, unique experiences, and hands-on knowledge! Find out about what each new faculty member plans to bring to the AUC community.
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Mohamed Alaa El Hadidy
Professor of Practice
Department of Public Policy and Administration
Research Interests: Foreign policy and diplomacy
Mohamed Elkaramany
Assistant Professor
Department of Public Policy and Administration
Research Interests: Nonprofit management, food assistance programs and social protection policy
Nina Ellis
Assistant Professor
Department of English and Comparative Literature
Research Interests: 21st-century literature, creative writing and literary “American counterculture”
Heba Fathelbab
Instructor
Department of Rhetoric and Composition
Research Interests: Communicative language teaching as well as critical engagement with language, culture and identity in diverse educational contexts
Seham Ghalwash
Assistant Professor
Heikal Department of Management
Research Interests: Social entrepreneurship, sustainability transitions and institutional change
William Raymond Johnson
Professor
Department of Sociology, Egyptology and Anthropology
Research Interests: Ancient Egyptian late 18th Dynasty, during the reigns of Amenhotep III, Akhenaten, Nefertiti, Tutankhamun, Ay and Horemheb
Tamara Maatouk
Assistant Professor
Department of the Arts
Research Interests: Egyptian cinema, political economy of film and film as history
Islam Mashaly
Assistant Professor
Department of Architecture
Research Interests: Sustainable urban mobility, climate-responsive design and data-driven environmental visualization
Adolfo Mendonca
Assistant Professor
Department of the Arts
Research Interests: Brazilian music, jazz pedagogy and interculturality
Bagryana Popov
Assistant Professor
Department of the Arts
Research Interests: Site-specific, devised, environmental and movement theatre
Ariane Cäcilie Schneck
Assistant Professor
Department of Philosophy
Research Interests: Early modern and feminist philosophy
Matthew Shannon
Associate Professor
Sultan Al-Qasimi Department of History
Research Interests: American history and U.S.-Middle East relations
Maryam Taghavi
Associate Professor of Practice
Department of the Arts
Research Interests: Islamic occult practices, calligraphy and abstraction
Ahmed Tohamy
Instructor
Mohamed Shafik Gabr Department of Economics
Research Interests: Corporate finance, taxation and inequality
