November 2nd | 5:30 – 7:00 PM | Law School, Room 7-119, Lincoln Center Campus
Dr. Andrew Rasmussen:
Dr. Andrew Rasmussen is a tenured Professor of Psychology at Fordham University. He is a prominent clinical and community psychologist whose work focuses heavily on immigration, trauma, the psychosocial stressors affecting displaced populations, and global mental health in general. He heads the Culture, Migration, and Community (CMC) Research Group at Fordham, which studies how migration experiences, community cohesion, and cultural factors shape the well-being of immigrants and refugees. Before joining the faculty at Fordham University, Dr. Rasmussen worked as a clinical psychologist and supervisor at Bellevue Hospital in New York City, working directly with refugees and voluntary immigrant groups. Dr. Rasmussen has authored or co-authored nearly 100 academic publications. His primary research areas include trauma & displacement, resilience and migration, and how psychology is used to inform legal questions. In addition to research, he has provided forensic mental health assessments in over 50 Immigration Court cases, and others in Criminal and Civil Courts.
Dr. Nojang Khatami:
Dr. Nojang Khatami is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Fordham University in New York City. Born in Iran, he received his PhD at the University of British Columbia, was a postdoctoral fellow at the Justitia Center for Advanced Studies at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt and currently serves as the co-coordinator for Islamic Studies at Fordham’s Lincoln Center campus. His research and teaching interests include democratic theory, literature, aesthetics, revolution, and resistance. His current book project, Thinking Like an Exile: From Banishment to Transformation, examines expressions of dissent against oppressive political structures with analysis shifting between Iran and North America. His public scholarship has appeared in The Progressive, Boston Review, and The Markaz Review, and he is co-host of the new podcast Politics and the Exilic City. While on research leave from Fordham this semester, he is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Politics & International Relations at the University of Oxford.
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