Mary Ann Bodine Al-Sharif

Mary Ann Bodine Al-Sharif, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Higher Education in the School of Education at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and a U.S. Fulbright Scholar to Saudi Arabia. She has worked in higher education as both a faculty member and a student affairs and services administrator. As a researcher, she focuses on student identity development, international and global education, and issues of social justice and advocacy within higher education. Dr. Bodine Al-Sharif explores the lives of individuals within higher education who define themselves as living between worlds at the intersections of ability, race, religion, ethnicity, gender expression, and the like at the micro-level and dominant power structures within the higher education environment at the macro-level. As a critical qualitative researcher, she intentionally engages in research that focuses on sociological, philosophical, historical, political, and/or cultural perspectives. She is extremely passionate about this work and the insight it can provide into the unique experiences of minoritized and marginalized populations in higher education both in the United States and abroad.