Zohreh Soltani was a Diversity Scholar Fellow in the Department of Art History for the 2018-2019 academic year. She is assistant professor of architectural studies in the department of Art, Art History, and Architecture at Ithaca College. Dr. Soltani is trained as an architect and architectural historian specializing in modern and contemporary architecture and urbanism of the Islamic World, committed to studying it through the analytic lenses of buildings and cities, using a critically informed and layered approach to understanding historical change, the accretion of memory, and the impact of radical political changes, trauma, and war on modern Middle Eastern landscapes.
Zohreh Soltani
Vanessa Lynn
Vanessa was a 2018-2019 scholar in the Sociology Department. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at Marist College in New York.
Shahan Bellamy
Shahan was a 2018-2019 scholar with a focus on Women and Gender Studies. He graduated from Arizona State University as a Doctor of Philosophy.