Assistant Professor of Leadership Studies at Xavier University
About
Dr. Ahlam Lee has served as an assistant professor of leadership studies doctoral program at Xavier University (Cincinnati, Ohio) since 2015, and before that, she had served as an assistant professor of education at Arkansas State University (Jonesboro, AR) for three years from 2012 to 2015.
Before starting her faculty career, Dr. Lee completed her postdoctoral training in the Graduate School of Education at University of Pennsylvania in2012 and received her PhD in educational leadership and policy analysis from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2011. She earned her master's degree in rehabilitation psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2008, another master's degree in public finance and budgeting at Columbia University in 2005, and a bachelor's degree in business economics and public policy at the Indiana University-Bloomington in 2001.
Current Work:
Dr. Lee's interdisciplinary background enables her to develop research agendas encompassing a wide range of topics including STEM education for all students, leadership roles for refugees' resettlement and adjustment in a new society toward human rights and social justice, and transformative leadership and cultural changes for diversity and inclusion in various contexts. With respect to STEM education research, she has published her works in top-ranked journals including Computers & Education, and Teachers College Record.
For the research on refugee's resettlement and adjustment issues, she published the book entitled North Korean Defectors in a New and Competitive Society: Issues and Challenges in Resettlement, Adjustment, and the Learning Process (Lexington books, 2015). Further, her book chapter entitled “The Korean Wave: A Pull Factor for North Korean Migration,” is forthcoming (Routledge, in press). Regarding research on transformative leadership and cultural change, she is writing about hierarchical microaggressions in higher education settings; this project was supported by the National Center for Institutional Diversity.
Research Area Keywords(s):
Cultural, ethnic, and diaspora studies, social sciences, humanities, and education
