ABOUT
Alena
Alamgir
Senior Lecturer and Director of Technical Communication
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Dr. Alena Alamgir received her PhD in Sociology from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, in 2014, and her MA in English and French Linguistics and Literature from Palacky University, Czech Republic in 1997. Her dissertation won the prestigious Theda Skocpol Dissertation Prize awarded by the Historical and Comparative Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association (ASA) in 2015, as well as Rutgers University Sociology Department’s 2014 Anne Foner Prize for the Most Outstanding Dissertation. As a postdoctoral research associate at St. Antony’s College at the University of Oxford (UK), she worked on the project Socialism Goes Global, funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council, which mapped and analyzed the relations between the countries of the former “second” and “third” worlds. She has published widely on various facets of labor migration in state socialism and the socialist roots of globalization. Dr. Alamgir is a peer reviewer for a number of journals, including the Slavic Review, Third World Quarterly, Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, Urban People/Lidé města, and Central and Eastern European Migration Review. Since 2015, she has been a member of the Program Committee, section on migration, for the convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN), which takes place annually at the Harriman Institute at Columbia University.

At Georgia Tech, building on and combining her experiences as a linguist and as an academic writer and researcher, Dr. Alamgir teaches on the undergraduate level technical communication aspect of several courses: Introduction into MSE (1111), junior (MSE 3021) and senior (MSE 4022) lab courses, and Senior Design II (MSE 4420). She also teaches graduate-level courses on scientific writing (MSE 6754) and oral presentation skills (MSE 8200). In addition, she organizes regular workshops on prestigious fellowship and graduate school applications. With her help, MSE students have won a number of prestigious fellowships, including NSF GRFP, NDSEG, DOE NNSA Laboratory Residency Graduate Fellowship, Sloan Fellowship, and JPMorgan AI Fellowship.