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NON-RESIDENT RESEARCH FELLOWS

Lyusyena
Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow

LYUSYENA KIRAKOSYAN (CV) 

Research Interests:

  • Inclusive entrepreneurship
  • Disability rights
  • Critical disability theory
  • Social in/exclusion 
  • UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 
  • Democratic citizenship 
  • Paraolympics 
  • Community change 
  • Human rights
Vanessa Guerra
Assistant Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning, University of Virginia's School of Architecture

VANESSA GUERRA (CV) 

Research Interests:

  • Urban informality
  • Urban resilience
  • Spatial justice
  • Co-production
  • Cognitive urbanism
  • Latin American cities

NEDA MOAYERIAN (CV)

Research Areas:

  • Culture, Tourism and Community Development
  • Globalization and Identity
  • Participatory Governance
  • Education and Empowerment
Ariel Otruba
Faculty Member, Arcadia University

ARIEL OTRUBA (CV)

Research Interests: 

  • Political Violence 
  • Forced Displacement, Migration, and Border Conflict 
  • Human Rights, Peacebuilding, and International Development 
  • Political Ecology 
  • Infrastructure and Urban Planning
  • Feminist Research Methods

SENIOR FELLOWS

Bob Leonard

BOB LEONARD, Professor, School of Performing Arts, Virginia Tech

Andy Morikawa

ANDY MORIKAWA, Executive Director Emeritus of the Community Foundation of the New River Valley (Virginia)

AFFILIATED RESEARCHERS

Kim Niewolny, Director of the Center for Food Systems and Community Transformation and Professor of Community Education and Development, Virginia Tech

Katy Powell, Director of the Center for Refugee, Migrant, and Displacement Studies and Professor of English, Virginia Tech

Marcy Schnitzer, Assistant Provost for Diversity and Strategic Planning, Virginia Tech

Yannis Stivachtis, Director of the Center for European and Transatlantic Studies and Jean Monnet Chair, Professor of European Studies in the Department of Political Science, Virginia Tech

Laura Zanotti, Professor, Department of Political Science, Virginia Tech