Hind Rassam Culhane | |
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Born | Hind Noel Rassam |
Spouse | John Culhane (m. 1960;died 2015) |
Children | 2 |
Academic background | |
Education | Rockford College (BS, MEd) Columbia University (PhD) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Child development Adolescent psychology |
Institutions | Damascus University Mercy College |
Hind Rassam Culhane is an Iraqi-born American educator and former journalist.
Rassam Culhane was born in Mosul,Iraq,to an Iraqi-Assyrian father and a Lebanese mother. [1] As a child,she and her family moved to the United States. Rassam Culhane studied at Cazenovia College before earning a bachelor's degree in psychology and a master's degree in early childhood education from Rockford College.
Rassam Culhane moved to New York City with her husband and worked at Newsweek . She later became a professor at Mercy College and began her doctorate at Teachers College,Columbia University. [1] She often gives lectures on Iraq's history and civilization as a way of embracing her culture and heritage.
She is the chair of the Division of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Mercy College. [1] She was also a teacher at the Damascus University - Faculty of Medicine,where she taught courses on child development,adolescent disorders and health service delivery. [2]
Rassam Culhane met her husband,John Culhane,while attending college. They had two children together,Michael and Thomas. John Culhane died in 2015 at the age of 81. [3]
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