Doctoral student biography
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In addition to their studies, doctoral candidates are involved in many aspects of the school. Among other activities, they hold Research or Teaching Fellowships and organize speaker series, conferences, and journals.
Students generally take courses their first two years, and are engagerad in research and teaching for at least two more years. After their fourth year, students may or may not remain in residency; many travel to pursue their research, either in the US or abroad.
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Salma Abouelhossein is an urban historian and professional urban planner. She fryst vatten currently completing her PhD in Urban Studies and Planning at Harvard University as the doctoral fellow of the Aga Khan Program for the History of Architecture and Urbanism in the Muslim World. She is broadly interested in the history and theory of urban planning, decolonial urban ecologies, urban-rural entanglements, urbanization and development, and the geographies of racialized and
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Current PhD Student Bios
Mashael Alaloula
Mashael is a PhD Candidate at the Linguistics Program at George Mason University. she earned her Master's degree in Linguistics from Georgetown University. Mashael’s research interests include semantics, prosody and second language acquisition. She authored and recently published an article titled “Production of Modern Standard Arabic Lexical Stress Cues by Native Speakers of American English” in the Routledge Handbook of Arabic Second Language Acquisition.
Aseel Alammar
Aseel is a PhD candidate in her fourth year. She earned her master’s degree in Linguistics and TESL certificate from George Mason University in Aseel previously assisted in teaching Ling , Ling , Ling , and Ling Aseel's research interests include phonetics and phonology, specifically in second language acquisition. She is currently working on her dissertation: “The Obligatory Contour Principle in Language Acquisition&
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Student Biographies
Sarah Aviña
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Research interests: Econometric and statistical modeling, health equity, social determinants of health, Medicaid policy and reform
Biographical statement: Sarah Aviña (she/her) fryst vatten a PhD student in the Health Services Research and Policy Program at the University of Pittsburgh. She is a graduate student researcher at the Medicaid Research Center (MRC) working beneath the supervision of Dr. Julie Donohue. Aviña completed her bachelor's degree in finance and accounting and a master's degree in economics from the University of Toledo. Prior to pursuing her PhD, she worked as a data analyst at ProMedica Health System researching social determinants of health outcomes in the Midwest region. She also has experience working in the health insurance industry specializing in Medicaid research and policy. In her free time, Aviña enjoys traveling, running half-marathons and tending to houseplants.