Public School Teacher Earns Her Doctorate

Dr. Crystal Kassab Jabiro

Dr. Crystal Kassab Jabiro successfully defended her dissertation titled “Ethnic Identity Development of Chaldean American Youth” at Indiana Wesleyan University on Friday, November 21, 2025. Her groundbreaking research examined how Chaldean children form their identity based on their culture. Overall, adolescents from the first to third generations feel strongly connected to their culture and take pride in being Chaldean. The whole paper will be made public online in the near future, and you can read the results in the Chaldean News next month.

Dr. Kassab Jabiro has been teaching for 24 years in the West Bloomfield School District and is the longest-running writer for the Chaldean News. She lives in Commerce Township and has two kids in college.