at Sanborn Regional High School
Susan Douglass is a doctoral candidate in world history at George Mason University, with an M.A. in Arab Studies from the Georgetown University Center for Contemporary Arab Studies. At George Mason University's Ali Vurak Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies, she has served as Senior Research Associate and Grant Project Manager, working on the National Endowment for the Humanities Bridging Cultures/Muslim Journeys Bookshelf project with the American Library Association. Douglass will be discussing how the Muslim world is portrayed in the news media, and how terms such as jihad have become household words with no context. She will provide approaches to these difficult topics, and provide access and activities to help individuals engage critically with these issues.
Susan Douglass has conducted teacher workshops nationwide for over two decades and developed the education outreach program for the Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim Christian Understanding at Georgetown University, who is sponsoring this program. These workshops for educators, professional and civic groups have been held in over 50 cities in the US and Canada. She will be conducting a day long teacher development workshop for the teachers of Sanborn and throughout the seacoast the following day.
