Graduate Certificate in Museum and Heritage Studies
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Dr. Pia-Kristina Anderson
Assistant Professor and Associate Dean of College of Arts and Sciences
Pia-Kristina Anderson earned a PhD in Anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley, USA. She has taught at both the American University in Cairo and at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Her research and teaching areas include culture contact, anthropological history, archaeology, cultural geography and the formation of identity. Dr. Anderson has extensive fieldwork experience both in the Middle East and in the Pacific Islands, among other regions.
Mona El-Mousfy
Assistant Professor
Mona El-Mousfy earned a Master of Architecture from Georgia Institute of Technology, USA. Prior to joining AUS, she taught at Georgia Tech. Her areas of creative work, research and teaching interest are lighting, art spaces and participatory design. Her professional experience concentrates on exhibition design and residential renovation in France and the Middle East. She worked on the last four last editions of the Sharjah Biennial, and of Disorientation II, held at Manarat Al- Saadiyat in Abu Dhabi. She is presently involved in the design of Sharjah Art Foundation Art Spaces in the Sharjah Heritage Area.
Dr. Stephen Keck
Associate Professor and Head of Department
Stephen Keck earned his doctorate in British history from Oxford University, UK. His research focuses upon Victorianism, John Ruskin’s thought, and British writing about Burma and Southeast Asia. His teaching interests include European history, Imperialism, historiography and global history. He has taught at the College of Charleston, USA, and the National University of Singapore. During the summer of 2006 Dr. Keck worked in Yangon, Myanmar as part of a team that delivered courses aimed at stimulating critical thinking; in 2010 he joined a Research Cluster at Sogang University in South Korea.
Dr. Samia Rab
Associate Professor
Samia Rab is the Regional Coordinator for the Arabian Peninsula of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Arabian Study. She has taught courses across curricula for 15 years at three universities (AUS, University of Hawaii and Georgia Institute of Technology), during which she has held administrative positions, published outcomes of research internationally, and continued professional development as consultant for UNESCO-Paris, ICCROM-Rome, the Government of Sharjah, AEDAS-Dubai, the Getty Center for Conservation in Los Angeles, and the East-West Center in Honolulu. She has a PhD from Georgia Institute of Technology.
Seth Thompson
Assistant Professor
Seth Thompson is a media designer and arts journalist involved in documenting and interpreting art, design and culture through print and online presentations. He has written on the media arts for such magazines as Afterimage, 2A, Bidoun and Dialogue. Thompson's documentaries, Evolving Traditions: Artists Working in New Media and Outside the Box: New Cinematic Experiences, have aired on such television stations as PBS 45 and 49, Ohio; DUTV, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Triangle Television, Auckland, New Zealand. Thompson holds a Master of Arts in Visual Arts Administration from New York University and a Master of Fine Arts in Visual Art from Vermont College, USA.
