Dr. Nawal Ammar
Title: Dean/Professor
Research interests: Violence against immigrant women; domestic violence in Arab/Muslin communities; Muslims in prison; various areas on Egyptian society.
Supervision Areas: Battered Immigrant Women; Comparative Criminal Justice Systems and Criminology; Women in the Criminal Justice System; Minorities in the Criminal Justice System; Community Policing.
Biography
Dr. Nawal Ammar is Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Social Science and Humanities at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology.
Dr. Ammar's recent research includes work on domestic violence in Islamic cultures, and violence against immigrant women in the U.S. She is also working with the National Network to End Violence Against Immigrant Women on a number of projects dealing with child safety and domestic violence in battered immigrant women's families, evaluating the impact of US Violence Against Women Act on services provided to battered immigrant women. At this moment she is finishing a book on Muslims in American Prisons, and a special edition for the National Women Studies Association Journal on Middle Eastern Women.
Dr. Ammar has published several manuscripts, over 40 book chapters, and refereed articles. Her work has been used in United Nations Reports such as the 2007 UNFPA's State of the World Population, 2006 Human Watch Report on Women and Violence in Egypt, 2005 Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly's resolution on Religion and Women in Europe, and 2002 United Nation's Basic Principles on Restorative Justice. Professor Ammar has participated in a number of United Nations Conferences, has authored and co-authored several reports for the United Nations and has been a consultant to that organization.
Dr. Ammar has garnered more than one million dollars in grants from private, state and national sources of funding since 2000.
Dr. Ammar is a frequent speaker at conferences with a record of near one-hundred presentations both invited and refereed. She has served on review panels for the Soros Foundation (Open Society Institute), National Institute of Justice, and Department of Justice on research proposals addressing violence against women, and the underserved communities. She also served as a participant in or consultant to activities of the governments of Bahrain, Lebanon, Oman, the United Arab Emirates and the U.S. to address issues of women, development and victimization. Dr. Ammar is a member of numerous non-governmental organizations both in the U.S. and the Arab world. Some of these include the Network to Prevent Violence Against Immigrant Women (Washington, D.C., Boston and San Francisco), the Religious Consultation on Population, Reproductive Health and Ethics (Washington, D.C.), Centre for Religion and Society (University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia), and the Alliance of Arab Women in Cairo, Egypt.
Dr. Ammar's B. Sc. (Honors) and M. Sc. in Sociology are from Salford University, Greater Manchester University, (U.K.) and she earned her Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Florida, in Gainesville, Florida (U.S.).
Dr. Ammar is also a wife and the mother of a 14 year old daughter.
