Students
One of my prides at NYUAD is to mentor students. Here is a list of 1) undergraduate students whose Capstone Project (aka Honor's Thesis) I supervised and whom I supported for post-graduate studies; 2) other supervised Capstone projects; and 3) postdocs mentorship.
Undergraduate Students
Alya Osman
"Egyptian Immigrants in Astoria, New York" (2022)
MA Student, NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study
Laura Assanmal
"Restorative Justice Approach to Campus Sexual Misconduct: Exploring the Views of Survivors" (2021)
PhD Student, Sociology of Education, New York University
Denita Pious
"Strong today, Stronger tomorrow, Strongest together: Local NGOs as key facilitators in the integration of displaced Syrians in Lebanon" (2020)
MA Student, International Relations, Johns Hopkins University
Sharif Ibrahim El Shishtawy Hassan
"Islamic Education in the UAE: Promoting National Security, Refuting Islamists, and Nation Branding" (2019)
PhD Student, Sociology, Northwestern University
Amal al Gergawi
Academic advisee (2019)
UAE Rhodes Scholar, MSc in Comparative and International Education, University of Oxford (2020)
UAE Rhodes Scholar, MSc in Evidence-Based Social Intervention and Policy Evaluation, University of Oxford (2021)
Kawader Research Assistant at the Marine Biology Lab, NYU Abu Dhabi (2022-present)
Raul Galan
"Actions of Contention among Romanian Christian Orthodox Groups" (2018)
PhD Student, Sociology, Michigan University
Other Capstone Projects I supervised:
Alya Al Zaabi. 2025. The Evolving Linguistic Landscape: Language Use, Code-Switching, and Language Preservation Among Emirati Youth in the UAE
Shayma Al Harthi. 2024. “Palestine, Always”: Emirati Media’s Role in (De)Legitimizing Statehood
Dana Alatiqi. 2024. Cultural Identity Building Through Public Education: An Abu Dhabi Pilot School Case Study
Yasmine Abdelhamid. 2023. Public Secrets and Familiar Strangers: An Ethnographic Study of Cairo Confessions
** Elza Maiksane. 2023. The Concept of Sovereignty in the Political Thought of Abū’l A’lā Mawdudi and Ruhallah Musavi Khomeini
Killian Marie Dumont. 2021. Goodbye Flood City: Loss & Community Driven Resettlement in Louisiana
Haewon Yoon. 2021. Between Fiction and Reality: Social Media Debates on Korean Media’s Portrayal of Women
* Shebi Niazi. 2021. Capitalism and Its Discontents: The Freegan Phenomenon in Melbourne, Australia
** Paula Brecak. 2020. The Congregation Family: Youth Integration into the Croatian Catholic Church
Shahinaz Geneid. 2020. Foreign Education, Foreign Jobs, Foreign Passports: Strategies to Mitigate Intergenerational Consequences of Migration for Adult Children of Syrian Migrants to the UAE
** Sharif Ibrahim El Shishtawy Hassan. 2019. Islamic Education in the UAE: Promoting National Security, Refuting Islamists, and Nation Branding
Warda Malik. 2019. Religion, State, and Nation: Claims to Citizenship Among Pakistan’s Ahmadiyya Community (2019)
* Erik Olson. 2019. Neither Here nor There: Non-political Transnationalism amongst Bosnian Refugee Families and the Blurring of Migrant Taxonomies
Fakhra AlFoulathi. 2018. Mental Health Perceptions Among Emirati Youth
Daniah Kheetan. 2018. Gender Based Violence in Jordan: Legal and Social Protection for Women Against Sexual Assault (2018)
Wafa Junaid. 2017. Engineering Identity: The Purpose and Application of Gendered Marriage Practices in the UAE
Farah Sayad. 2017. Negotiating Piety: Lebanese Women in Sunni Islamist Movements
** Best Capstone Award
* Best Capstone Award Finalist
Mentoring
Mustafa Yavas
NYUAD Postdoc (2021–2024)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Economy and Society, Johns Hopkins University (2024–present)
PhD in Sociology, Yale University
Didem Turkoglu
NYUAD Postdoc (2020–2022)
Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology, Kadir Has University, Istanbul (2022–present)
PhD in Sociology, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Phi Hong Su
NYUAD Postdoc (2019–2021)
PhD in Sociology, University of Los Angeles
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Williams College, MA United States (2021–present)