Affiliated Faculty

Head of Modern Languages & Assistant Professor in Spanish, Northeastern University London

Dr Acosta-Ortega is Assistant Professor in Spanish at Northeastern University London. Her teaching focuses on using the language in communicative situations to encourage the students to express themselves in the target language. She holds a BA in Translation and Interpreting (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) and an MA in Teaching Spanish as a Second Language (Universitat de Barcelona) before completing her PhD in Translation and Language Sciences (Universitat Pompeu Fabra). Dr Acosta-Ortega has taught widely in Spanish language, including special subjects on oral skills, writing skills, grammar and translation both in the UK and in Spain. At Northeastern University London she teaches “Introduction to the Spanish Language and Hispanic Cultures” and “Introduction to Intermediate Spanish Language and Hispanic Cultures”.

Associate Professor of English; Founding Director, Health, Humanities, and Society Program

Sari Altschuler’s research focuses primarily on American literature and culture before 1865, disability studies, and the health humanities, broadly understood. She is the author of The Medical Imagination: Literature and Health in the Early Uni…

Visiting Assistant Professor

Lauren Savit is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program. She has expertise in feminist media studies, queer theory, and feminist pedagogy. Her research examines the co-constitutive relationship between med…

University Distinguished Professor of Law and Affiliate Professor of Africana Studies

Professor Burnham joined the Northeastern University School of Law faculty in 2002. Her fields of expertise are civil and human rights, comparative constitutional rights, and international criminal law. She is the founder of the School of Law’s Civil…

Professor of Spanish

Originally from Havana, Cuba, Carlota Caulfield is a poet, essayist, translator, and critic. Her interests and research are in modern literature and cultures with an emphasis on Iberian, Latin American, and Caribbean poetry. Her work has focused on t…

Assistant Professor of Journalism

Myojung Chung’s primary research focuses on the intersection of new media, public opinion, and policy making. She is particularly interested in the spread and consequences of misinformation as well as countermeasures to combat misinformation. Dr. Chu

Dean’s Professor of Civic Sustainability; Professor of English

As Dean’s Professor of Civic Sustainability, Ellen’s research explores the perseverance of people made possible with reading and writing. She’s currently co-leading a team that is developing a digital archive to support the translat…

Associate Professor of Communications Studies, CAMD

Patricia Davis (Ph.D. University of California, San Diego) is a critical/cultural studies scholar whose research and teaching lies at the nexus of rhetoric and media studies. She studies public memory, identity, race, gender, and representation. Her …

Associate Professor of Sociology

Silvia Dominguez is a versatile scholar with diverse research interests, and Integrative, creative, and collaborative approaches characterize her work. She focuses on inequalities worldwide, particularly those related to cities and municipali…

Professor

Murray Forman is author of The ‘Hood Comes First: Race, Space and Place in Rap and Hip-Hop (Wesleyan University Press, 2002) and Co-editor (with Mark Anthony Neal) of That’s the Joint!: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader (Routledge, 1st edition 2004; 2nd edi…

Assistant Professor

Francesca Inglese is an ethnomusicologist and scholar of popular music whose scholarship investigates how African and African diasporic communities deploy sound and embodied practice as vehicles for knowledge production, identity formation, and socia…

Associate Professor of Sociology and International Affairs

Dr. Joseph joined the Northeastern faculty in 2018 after serving as Assistant Professor of Sociology at Stony Brook University from 2013-2018. Prior to that, she was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Scholar at Harvard University. Her re…

Davis Distinguished Professor of American Literature; Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Carla Kaplan, a professor of English, African-American and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, holds the Davis Distinguished Professorship in American Literature and writes on modern, African-American, and women’s history and culture. She has pub…

Professor Emeritus of Anthropology

Professor Klein has spent his career examining the intersection of culture, politics and sport. His research has taken him to study baseball in the Dominican Republic, Mexico and other far flung sites; bodybuilders in southern California; and Lakota …

Distinguished Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs

Ted Landsmark has been a civic planner, civil rights and equity advocate, higher education administrator, arts and culture researcher, and community-engaged social activist in Boston and nationally. He serves on the leadership committee of the Northe…

Associate Professor of Anthropology; Director of Global Asian Studies

Doreen Lee is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Global Asian Studies Program at Northeastern University. Trained as an interdisciplinary scholar in History, Southeast Asian Studies, and Anthropology, her work explores how cities…

Associate Professor of Anthropology; Director of Global Asian Studies

Doreen Lee is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Global Asian Studies Program at Northeastern University. Trained as an interdisciplinary scholar in History, Southeast Asian Studies, and Anthropology, her work explores how cities…

Associate Professor of History and International Affairs

Katherine Luongo is a specialist in the anthropological history of Kenya. She studies legal systems in colonial and contemporary Africa, global legal regimes, and human rights. She is the author of Witchcraft and Colonial Rule in Kenya, 1900-1955 (Ca…

Mills College Germaine Thompson Professor of French and Francophone Studies and Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Program Head, Transcultural Francophone Studies & Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Brinda Mehta is an award-winning scholar of postcolonial literature, transnational feminist thought, and Francophone Studies. Her publications include five monographs along with three co-edited journal issues on Indo-Caribbean/Afro-Caribbean Intellec…

Director of the John D. O’Bryant African American Institute; Research Associate of the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy; Advisory Board Member, Humanities Center

Director of Student Diversity and Success; Associate Teaching Professor in English

Melissa Pearson joined the faculty at Northeastern as a lecturer in the Writing Program in Fall 2015. She teaches first-year writing and advanced writing in the disciplines. Her research interests are in African American feminist rhetoric, first-year…

Dean’s Professor of Sustainability Science and Policy

* Prof. Stephens is on leave from Northeastern in 2024-2025 * Jennie C. Stephens’ research, teaching, and community engagement focus on social-political aspects of renewable energy transformation, energy democracy, climate resilience, reducing …

Associate Professor of Anthropology

Nina Sylvanus is a political and economic anthropologist whose work centers on capital and labor, value and aesthetics, infrastructure and technology, and, more broadly, critical transformations in the neoliberal global economy. Her regional speciali…

Professor of Health Sciences and Applied Psychology & Associate Director of the Institute for Health Equity and Social Justice Research, Affiliate Professor of Africana Studies

Idia Binitie Thurston, PhD (she/her) is a licensed clinical psychologist, professor of health sciences and applied psychology, Affiliate Professor of Africana Studies, and Associate Director of the Institute for Health Equity and Social Justice Resea…

Professor of Sociology and International Affairs

Berna Turam, Professor of Sociology at Northeastern University, has an abiding interest in conducting research on state-society interaction, including the interplay between violent borders of security regimes and irregular border-crossers. She is the…

Associate Professor Emeritus of English

Affiliate Professor of Political Science

Dr. Thomas J. Vicino is the Dean of the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University, where he is also Professor of Urban Studies. Previously, he held administrative and professorial roles at Northeastern University, including as…

Department Chair; Associate Professor of Sociology

Liza Weinstein researches and teaches on cities and globalization, urban political economy, and the politics of informality with a regional focus on India. Her work has appeared in Politics & Society, International Journal of Urban and Regional R…

Teaching Professor of Religion

Sheila Winborne is a Teaching Professor of Religion in the Department of Philosophy and Religion. She received her Ph.D. in the study of religion from Harvard University (specialization theology and the visual arts), an MTS (concentration religion an…