LEADERSHIP FOR THE GLOBAL COMMUNITY Dr. Helen Bond and Dr. Alem Hailu Invited to University of Cambridge (UK) to Discuss Social Media
and Hailu are also recipients of the Faculty Senate’s 2012 Inspired Interdisciplinary Teaching Award. Drs. Bond’s and Hailu’s research, “Investigating ICTs and Political Change: Tools and Methods,” presented the interdisciplinary course they are piloting with Howard University students, which explores the influence of social media on the Arab Spring. Their work suggests that the
Dr. Helen Bond, assistant professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction and Dr. Alem Hailu, an assistant professor in the Department of African Studies and researcher with the department’s Center for NortheastAfrican Studies and Development, were invited panelists at a University of Cambridge (UK) forum which examined the ability of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to affect and transform governance processes in Africa. Drs. Bond and Hailu were the only North Ameri-
movement should be examined through historical and comparative lenses. Using the university’s history with the civil rights movement in America, Drs. Bond and Hailu compare the revolutions that took place in northern Africa to the civil rights movement in the U.S., studying the role of communication networks and technology in both cases. The researchers stress pre- and post-movement periods as critical to understanding the long-term impact of social change.
can panelists invited to the forum. Their participation was
Both Dr. Bond and Dr. Hailu have been invited to return
supported by the Mellon Interdisciplinary Undergradu-
to the University of Cambridge to share their continuing
ate Research Program at Howard University. Drs. Bond
research.
Dr. Helen Bond Appointed Fulbright-Nehru Fellow to Study in India Dr. Helen Bond, assistant professor in the Department of Curriculum, received a 2011-2012 Fulbright-Nehru Scholar award to conduct research and teach at the Sri Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya College of Education in Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, where Mahatma Gandhi laid the founding stone in 1934. Under an agreement between the U.S. and India,
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