Introducing our New Faculty for Fall 2026
This fall, AUC welcomes 25 new faculty members to campus, expanding its impressive cohort and bringing new expertise to the AUC community. From Egyptology and business to architecture and colonial history, AUC continues to open doors into fascinating areas of academia and research.
What Some of Our Faculty Have to Say
“I’m especially excited to teach drilling engineering because it brings together so many parts of petroleum engineering: mechanics, fluids, geology, safety, economics and decision making.” - Ahmed Gowida, Assistant Professor of Petroleum and Energy Engineering
“I was honored to receive an invitation to come to AUC as a Distinguished Visiting Professor. I love Cairo, so this combines two things I love about the world: being in Cairo and teaching at a university in Cairo.” - Joseph Massad, Distinguished Visiting Professor
“It is such a thriving community. There's so much happening all the time, and I think that the students who come to AUC are the next generation of leaders for Egypt.” - April Perkins, Instructor of Rhetoric and Composition
“I'm always very interactive, even if I'm giving a lecture. Even if it's a room of 100 people, I still tend to throw questions out so that students in the audience know that they're part of this teaching; they're not being taught.” - Joanne Rowland, William K. Simpson and Marilyn M. Simpson Visiting Professor in Egyptology
“I like [my teaching] to be very student-centered. Here at AUC, classes are relatively small, so you build a rapport with each student. From there you get to know their needs and dreams so you can guide them along the journey.” - Nadine Barakat, Assistant Professor of Psychology
Onsi Sawiris School of Business
School of Sciences and Engineering
Marcella Camponogara
Assistant Professor
Department of Architecture
Research Interests: Exhibition design and modern heritage
Wael El-Dakhakhni
Distinguished Visiting Scholar
Department of Construction Engineering
Research Interests: Complex systems and data analytics
Rana Nabil Salah Eldeen
Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics and Actuarial Science
Research Interests: Mathematical statistics and reliability engineering and lifetime distribution theory
Anastasia Gkoliomyti
Assistant Professor
Department of Architecture
Research Interests: Fieldwork drawings
Ahmed Gowida
Assistant Professor
Department of Petroleum and Energy Engineering
Research Interests: Drilling and well engineering and AI-driven solutions for the energy industry
Yasmine Mustafa
Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics and Actuarial Science
Research Interests: AI in healthcare
School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Nidaa Aboulhosn
Assistant Professor
Department of the Arts
Research interests: Perception, intuition, rhythm and time in art
Nadine Barakat
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
Research Interests: Neuroscience, brain stimulation, and adolescent self-harm
Athanasios Kokkinakis
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
Research Interests: Video games, visual illusions and attention
Joseph Massad
Distinguished Visiting Professor
Department of English and Comparative Literature
Research Interests: Nationalism, sexuality and history of settler-colonialism
Mathilde Perray
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
Research Interests: Social inequalities in health and mental health
Joanne Rowland
Visiting Simpson Professorship
Department of Sociology, Egyptology and Anthropology
Research Interests: Nile Delta archaeology and Nile Valley history and prehistory
Dina Wahba
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
Research Interests: Gender and politics in the Middle East and North Africa, Authoritarianism, and political ecology
Fred Wojnarowski
Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology, Egyptology and Anthropology
Research Interests: Water and environment, political ecology, and
histories of empire
Academy of Liberal Arts
Rana Nidal Hussein
Instructor
Department of Rhetoric and Composition
April Perkins
Instructor
Department of Rhetoric and Composition
Research Interests: Academic writing, songwriting, and sociolinguistics
Yara Zidan
Instructor
Department of Rhetoric and Composition
Research Interests: Forensic linguistics and second language acquisition
