Preface to “Female Academics: Volume II”
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Personal SubStack
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2025/08/09
ContentsI Acknowledgement ………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 4
II Biographies …………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 5
III Preface …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 10
IV STEM, Medicine, and Humanities ………………………………………………………………………….. 11
i Dr. Mahtab Jafari: Associate Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences & Director of Undergraduate Pharmaceutical Sciences Program, University of California, Irvine …….. 11
ii Dr. Sally Satel, M.D.: Lecturer, Yale University & Resident Scholar, AEI …………………. 25
iii Dr. Hawa Abdi, M.D.: Physician & Human Rights Activist, Hawa Abdi Foundation ….. 32
iv Dr. Athene Donald: Experimental Physicist, University of Cambridge ……………………… 42
v Dr. Azra Raza, M.D.: Professor and Director of MDS Center, at Columbia University …. 54
vi Madeleine Thien: Writer-in-Residence, Simon Fraser University …………………………….. 69
vii Dr. Wanda Cassidy: Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University; Director, Centre for Education, Law & Society …………………………………………………….. 80
viii Dr. Diane Purvey: Dean of Arts, Kwantlen Polytechnic University …………………………. 96
ix Dr. Barbara Forrest: Philosophy Professor, Southeastern Louisiana University & Member, NCSE Board of Directors ……………………………………………………………………. 114
V License and Copyright ………………………………………………………………………………………….. 135
Acknowledgement
To women with an impact in personal life, good and bad, for the thorough lessons in variousaspects of the human experience; and specific appreciation for approval provided by Dr. MahtabJafari, Dr. Sally Satel, M.D., Dr. Hawa Abdi, M.D., Dr. Athene Donald, Dr. Azra Raza, M.D.,Madeleine Thien, Dr. Wanda Cassidy, Dr. Diane Purvey, and Dr. Barbara Forrest to conduct andpublish these uncensored and enlightened interviews, especially for an unknown and randomundergraduate, some time ago.
Preface
Female Academics: Volume I emphasized the social sciences based on theFemale Academics: Volume II follows in the footpath tread by the first volume with theexpanded focus on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), medicine, andthe humanities.
Most of the serious discussions and conversations, and research, occurs in the academic literature.Implementation happens throughout the international community with deep concern forinternational women’s rights. No single organization or individual at the helm; rather, themovement remains decentralized and fluid. The secular and the religious work towards thisunified aim. A long-term goal for equality of men and women with the right for women to vote,to work, to earn education, and so on.
“Decentralized and fluid” comes with the apt metaphor of an ocean. The movement atlarge remains the same in its inertial force from the sacrifices of previous generations. Somepeaks and valleys arise at moments of social upheaval in nations, in continents, in institutions, indisciplines, in individuals as representations of pathologies. Every drop adds to the ocean. Therising tide lifts all minds, raises consciousness. This is a drop.
Scott Douglas Jacobsen
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