Dr. Solomon is an interdisciplinary scholar and conflict resolution practitioner interested in core questions of identity- including religious, cultural, national and gender identities- in peace and reconciliation. Her work focuses on political science, with strong roots in political psychology, social psychology, sociology and cultural anthropology. It is based in a scholar-practitioner approach informed by my own work and training in conciliation, facilitation, negotiation and mediation.

Dr. Solomon is an Assistant Professor at Kent State University in the School of Peace and Conflict Studies, focusing on community conflicts and conflict resolution. And a prior position was as the Mellon Post-Doctoral Scholar in Peace and Conflict Studies at Grinnell College.

She a certified mediator in California with hundreds of hours of mediation experience with conflict resolution practice working with programs such as the Alternatives to Violence Project.