Marianne Marar Yacobian is a transnational educator-scholar. Dr. Marar taught Diversity in the Workplace, Social Science, Human Rights Education, and Global Studies. She earned her doctorate and Outstanding Dissertation Award at the University of San Francisco in International & Multicultural Education with an emphasis in Second Language Acquisition. She is an expert in race-relations and social stratification, specializing in the institutional and structural implications of discrimination. Her research interests include diaspora studies (particularly refugee human rights education), transnational citizenship, genocide recognition, social movements/revolution, tribal-collectivism, and the sociopolitical underpinnings of global education. As a mother-educator, Dr. Marar’s teaching pedagogy is predicated on the belief that education is a crucial instrument in promoting transnational consciousness and peace.
