Aytakin Huseynli is a full time doctoral student in social work at the Brown School at Washington University where she also earned her masters of social work degree. She studies the effect of resource curse on vulnerable population and social welfare in developing resource-rich countries. Her other research interests are global social development, international social work and child welfare. She is interested in teaching social welfare in resource-rich countries, statistics, research methods, evaluation of program and services, sustainable development and international social work.