Graduate Students
Shahd Alasaly
CONTACT
Office: CPR 218
BIO
Shahd Alasaly is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology and Interdisciplinary Social Sciences. She received her master’s degree in International Psychology. Upon completing her
               master’s, she founded Blue Meets Blue, a humanitarian clothing line headquartered
               in Chicago that employed refugee women. Through this venture she was able to conduct
               countless interviews with refugee women and families as they worked closely on the
               fashion they produced. The goal was a production of high-end slow fashion by artisans
               who had a prior skillset in sewing and fashion design, focusing on methods of art
               therapy and community building. She later moved to Tampa and began her PhD at the
               »Æ¹ÏÊÓÆµ with a concentration in Sociology. Her research interests
               include social psychology and social inequality.
            
            Research Interests
Social Psychology, Global Politics, Identity and Trauma