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Theresa Jackson holds a master’s degree in History from the University of North Carolina Wilmington and a bachelor’s degree from Metropolitan State University of Denver.  She specializes in Global History, the Modern Middle East and Contemporary Global Conflict, and her research interests lie in foreign policy, genocide, identity and gender politics including female circumcision. Theresa taught Global History at UNCW and has also worked with refugee populations from Africa, the Middle East and former Soviet Union in support of the various issues surrounding assimilation to the United States.  Theresa established the first English curriculum for a local school in the Kingdom of Bahrain where she spent a number of years teaching.