Indigenous Women's Resilience, Leadership and Social Change

Nuzha Allassad Alhuzail is a Professor (Social Work) at the Sapir Academic College, Israel, and teaches introductory courses in social work as well as a research seminar investigating indigenous issues, a course in indigenous social work, and an introductory meeting course with Arab society. Professor Alhuzail was Research Fellow at Leiden University, Netherlands, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland FHNW and Dodama University in Tanzania. She is the author of the book: “When the Shadow Is Big It Means the sun is setting: The Lives of Three Generations of Bedouin Women” (In Hebrew). Professor Alhuzail research deals with the implications of social change for the lives of three generations of Bedouin women, deafness in Bedouin society, poverty, youth at risk, Indigenous social work and social work in conflict areas, and women in traditional and religious societies.

Koustab Majumdar works as an Assistant Professor (Rural Development) at the Division of Rural and Tribal Development in Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Educational and Research Institute (Deemed to be University, Ranchi campus, India). Dr. Majumdar is also associated with Harriet Tubman Institute (HTI), York University, Canada, as an Associate Fellow. He was a Post-Doctoral (Visiting) Fellow at the International Center for Cultural Studies (ICSS), National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU), Taiwan. His recent book is Indigenization Discourse in Social Work: International Perspectives, Springer. Majumdar's research interests include rural transformation, social work education, international social work, comparative social policy and social welfare, social problems and ecopolitics.