title: Hind Rassam Culhane
text: # Hind Rassam Culhane
  
  Hind Rassam Culhane is an Iraqi-born American educator and former journalist.
  
  ## Early life and education
  
  Rassam Culhane was born in Mosul, Iraq, to an Iraqi-Assyrian father and a Lebanese mother. As a child, she and her family moved to the United States. Rassam Culhane studied at Cazenovia College before earning a bachelor's degree in psychology and a master's degree in early childhood education from Rockford College.
  
  ## Career
  
  Rassam Culhane moved to New York City with her husband and worked at Newsweek. She later became a professor at Mercy College and began her doctorate at Teachers College, Columbia University. She often gives lectures on Iraq's history and civilization as a way of embracing her culture and heritage.
  
  She is the chair of the Division of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Mercy College. She was also a teacher at the Damascus University - Faculty of Medicine, where she taught courses on child development, adolescent disorders and health service delivery.
  
  ## Personal life
  
  Rassam Culhane met her husband, John Culhane, while attending college. They had two children together, Michael and Thomas. John Culhane died in 2015 at the age of 81.
  
  