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Aysha Hidayatullah
Affiliate, Islamic Studies
Visiting Scholar, Islamic StudiesBioAysha Hidayatullah is Associate Professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of San Francisco. Hidayatullah is the author of *Feminist Edges of the Qur'an* (Oxford University Press, 2014), a study of feminist exegesis of the Qur'an. Her forthcoming book, *This Body Called Muslim*, is a study of Islamic ritual practices in relation to the body. Her other publications and research interests span constructions of gender and sexuality in Islamic traditions; literary representations and self-representations of Muslims in relation to gender; constructive Muslim theology; and methodologies and epistemologies in the study of Islam. She was the founding co-chair of the Islam, Gender, Women program unit of the American Academy of Religion.
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Rajnish Khanna, Ph.D.
Senior Investigator, Biology
BioRajnish Khanna, M.Sc. Ph.D., is a photobiologist and entrepreneur focused on nutrition, health, and sustainable practices. He is a Senior Investigator at the Carnegie Institution for Science at Stanford University, the founder and CEO of the agricultural technology company, i-Cultiver, Inc., and co-founder and Executive Director of “Urban Green Project”. He holds positions as adjunct faculty in biology at the Contra Costa Community College. Khanna leads research and development in agriculture, focusing on product efficacy trials and sustainable growing practices. Khanna's work emphasizes bridging the gap between academic agricultural research and its practical application for farmers, focusing on technologies and data to improve global agro-ecology projects. He obtained his Ph.D. in Biological Sciences (Plant Molecular Biology) from Purdue University. Khanna applies photobiology to explore the science of consciousness. He has developed a unique and testable “Theory of Spatial Relativity” exploring the origins of consciousness. He is the host of the TerreScience podcast/YouTube channel, which focuses on soil and planetary health, and on the science of consciousness. For a full bio, visit (www.rajnishkhanna.com).
Khanna collaborates with Dr. Ulrich Kutschera, both are former members of the Winslow Briggs-Lab at Stanford University, see "Stanford Profile Winslow R. Briggs" (https://profiles.stanford.edu/winslow-briggs?tab=publications). Khanna and Kutschera continue research on "Evolutionary Plant Physiology & Photomorphogenesis" via the publication of peer-reviewed papers inspired by and dedicated to the memory of their former mentor, see "In memory of Winslow R. Briggs" (http://www.evolutionsbiologen.de/winslow-r-briggs.html"). -
Eugenia Khassina
Advanced Lecturer
BioEugenia (Zhenya) Khassina is a Lecturer in Russian and Russian Language Program Coordinator. She received her BA in Linguistics and MA in Foreign Language Acquisition Methodology from Maurice Torrez Foreign Language Pedagogical University in Moscow, Russia
Foreign language pedagogy and second language acquisition has always been central to her professional interests. She has had extensive experience in teaching Russian as a foreign language from beginning to advanced and has been teaching at Stanford since 2004.
