Annelies Z. Kamran, Ph.D., is currently president of GeoLyceum, LLC, an education company specializing in providing information and insight about the politics, economics, history, and culture of countries around the world. She is a teacher with experience in leading teams, in communicating with both expert and non-expert audiences via multiple media, and in using both commercial and open-source/free computer programs and operating systems. A digital publishing professional with experience in developing and producing educational social sciences software for use in secondary and higher education. And an interdisciplinary multilingual academic with ten years of experience in qualitative and quantitative research, analysis, and writing in international relations.
Core Competencies:
Writing and presenting information; research and curriculum design; collection, analysis, and evaluation of data.
Technical Competencies:
- Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, LibreOffice, Google Docs (word processing, spreadsheets, database, and presentation software)
- GoToMeeting, AnyMeeting (online meeting and video conferencing software)
- Blackboard, Sensei, Canvas (course content management software)
- WordPress (blogging/website management software)
- UCINET, NetDraw, Mage 3-D Visualization, NodeXL, ORA, SPSS, Python (data analysis/visualization software)
- Notepad++, Jupyter (code editing software)
- Adobe Photoshop, Inkscape, GIMP (image creation and editing software)
- CamStudio, Screencast-O-Matic (audiovisual desktop capture and record software)
- Windows MovieMaker (video editing software)
- AutoMap (text mining software)
- French, German, and Spanish (reading ability)
- Windows, Android, and Linux (operating systems)
Consulting services in the following areas:
- international development program evaluation
- grantwriting and administration
- website user interaction and design
- strategic, organizational, and policy analysis
- curriculum development and lesson planning
- research methodology training
- graphic design
