Dedicated assistant professor of economics with eighteen years of experience teaching undergraduate and graduate courses. Enthusiastic about motivating and driving students to achieve academic success. Creative, flexible professor willing to innovate and implement progressive pedagogy. A researcher highly focused on students development and academic success. In addition to economics conflict research.
Teaching undergraduate courses include multiple modalities of Principles of Microeconomics, Principles of Macroeconomics, Intermediate Macroeconomics, Statistics, Mathematical Economics, Econometrics, and Economic Development.
Teaching graduate courses include Managerial Economics, Econometrics and International Finance.
Participated in creating a Finance Track of the 4+1 MBA Graduate Program.
Teaching undergraduate classes: Introduction to Microeconomics, Introduction to Macroeconomics, International Finance, Capstone for Business Administration Students.
Research/ Conferences:
a. Northeast Business & Economics Association, Fiftieth Annual Conference, October 26-28, 2023:
a.1. Financial Literacy Among College Students, working paper, Abir A. Bukhatwa and Janice Yee, Congress Library, December 2023.
a.2. The Impact of Publisher’s Online Platforms on College Students’ Learning Outcome: A Case Study Analysis, Abir A. Bukhatwa and Lingling Wang, Congress Library, December 2023.
b. Eastern Economics Conference:
b.1. 47th Annual Conference, Boston MA, March 2024:
b.1.1. Determinants of Financial Literacy of College Students. Abir A. Bukhatwa, Janice Yee, Jillian Fredricksen, and Samuel Fonseca. March 2024
b.1.2. Impact of Climate Change on Child Marriage in Pakistan. Abir A. Bukhatwa and Saleem Shah, WISE Program, Worcester State University. March 2024.
b.1.3. The impact of Publisher's Online Platforms on Educational Outcomes, Abir A. Bukhatwa and Lingling Wang, March 2024
b.2. 45th Annual Conference, Boston, MA, March 2019:
Paper Presented: The Impact of Armed Conflicts on Woman Empowerment, March 2019
b.3. 44th Annual Conference, Boston, MA, March 2018:
The Effect of Armed Conflicts on Children’s Health. March 2018
4. Libyan Policy Forum III, Challenges and Opportunities, Tufts University, Boston MA, November 2016
7. The Importance of Establishing a Libyan Stock Market, Tripoli, Libya.
The Importance of the Stock Market in the Privatization Process in Libya, Libyan Stock Market Journal, October 2005
Grants, Honors, and Awards:
1. Nominated to an Excellence in Teaching Award, Worcester State University, Worcester, MA, January 2024.
2. Provost’s Travel Fund Awards, June 2023.
3. Distinguished Graduate Fellows, the WISE Program, Summer 2023
4. 2023 Summer: Undergraduate Research Grant, Summer 2023
5. The Massachusetts Open Education Resources- an OER Grant, April 2019
6. Nominated to an Excellence in Teaching Award, Worcester State University, Worcester, MA, April 2019
7. Women’s History Month, ALANA Network, A Faculty that Impacted your Life, Assumption University, Worcester, MA, April 2019