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Angela Pashayan Professorial Lecturer Environment, Development & Health

Additional Positions at AU
Professorial Lecturer
SIS Learning Assessment and Pedagogy Committee
Informal Settlements, Extreme Poverty Reduction - Africa
Degrees
BA Psychology - UCLA
MA Diplomacy & IR - Norwich University
PhD Pol. Science & IR - Howard University

Languages Spoken
French, Kiswahili, Spanish, Italian
Bio
Dr. Angela Pashayan is a full-time lecturing professor at 猫咪社区app University, Washington, DC, in the School of International Service (SIS). She graduated from Howard University鈥檚 PhD Program in Political Science and was accepted into the distinguished Pi Sigma Alpha National Political Science Honor Society. Her expertise is in Informal Settlements, International Development, Political Science, and International Relations, with 10+ years of field experience working to reduce extreme poverty in Peru, India, Nepal, Indonesia, Tanzania, and Kenya. Her research on extreme poverty reduction in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya includes ethnography, quantitative and quantitative research published in her upcoming book, 鈥淏elow the Proletariat鈥 to be released in 2023. Working across a wide range of socio-economic levels and different cultures, Dr. Pashayan鈥檚 lived and academic experiences provide a unique perspective on Diversity-Equity-Inclusion-Accountability (DEIA) in International Development and domestic poverty.
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Teaching

Summer 2024

  • SIS-603 Special Inst in Int'l Affairs: Dev/Hlth/Env Informal Settlmts

Fall 2024

  • CORE-107 Complex Problems Seminar: Settling Informal Settlements

  • SIS-636 Power/Practice in Development

  • SISU-206 Intro to Int'l Studies Rsrch

Spring 2025

  • SIS-636 Power/Practice in Development

  • SISU-240 Global Inequality & Devel

  • SISU-240 Global Inequality & Devel