Position Community College Teaching Fellow Role University Administrative Fellow Bio/Description Mai K. Alkhamissi is a second-year PhD student with an MA in Anthropology and Cultural Politics from Goldsmiths and a BA in Anthropology and Sociology from the American University in Cairo. Mai is a University Administrative Fellow in the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning. Mai has done fieldwork in Cairo from 2011 to 2013 on a project called the Imagination of the Political researching independent trade unions and artists who chose to display their art in public spaces. She taught introduction to Sociology at the American University in Cairo this past academic year. She did her MA fieldwork in 2013-2014 with craftsmen in Darb el Ahmar area of Cairo where she looked at how their methods of organizing impacts her understanding of what democracy is and different definitions of the political. Upcoming Professional Development Events Dec 4 Office Hours for Humanities and Social Sciences Graduate Students (In Person) Dec 4 American Higher Ed Learning Cohort Session 5: Professionalization- Degrees, Other Credentials, Careers Dec 5 Managing Active Research Data Dec 7 Writing to Influence: How Academia Inspires Action with Christopher Paul Harris Dec 7 LaTeX Drop-in Consultations Dec 7 Cynthia Dwork: It’s in Your Phone. It’s in Your Browser. It’s in Your Redistricting Data! … It’s Differential Privacy. Dec 8 30 Minutes Towards Better Bibliographies and Footnotes! (online) Dec 8 Introduction to Environmental Studies Library Research: Water Use and Availability Dec 11 Office Hours for Humanities and Social Sciences Graduate Students (In Person) Dec 11 Office Hours with Leonard Cassuto Dec 11 American Higher Ed Learning Cohort Session 6: International Perspectives (Europe, Asia) Dec 13 Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital, and Startups Learning Cohort: Capstone Presentations