Department Faculty

Professor of English and Africana Studies

Professor Aljoe’s research focuses on 18th and early 19th Century Black Atlantic and Caribbean literature with a specialization on the slave narrative and early novels. In addition to teaching in these areas, she has published articles on these…

Professor & Chair, Cultures, Societies, and Global Studies; Professor & Interim Director, International Affairs; Professor, Political Science; Affiliated faculty member of Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies; Affiliated faculty member in the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs

Professor Amílcar Antonio Barreto specializes in nationalism & ethnic politics, citizenship and race. Most of his work has focused on Puerto Rico and Latinos in the United States. His most recent books are The Politics of Language in Puerto Rico …

Dean’s Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies

Kabria Baumgartner is a historian of the nineteenth-century United States, specializing in the history of education, African American women’s and gender history, and the New England region. She is the author of the award-winning book, In Pursui…

Professor of Cultures, Societies and Global Studies; Director, World Languages Center

Stacey Katz Bourns is Professor of Cultures, Societies and Global Studies and the Director of the World Languages Center at Northeastern University. She teaches courses in French language, linguistics, and culture. From 2009-2016, she directed the Ro…

Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology & Africana Studies

Layla D. Brown is an Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology & Africana Studies and affiliate faculty in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Brown’s research focuses on Pan-African, Socialist, and Feminist social movements in…

Professor of Cultures, Societies and Global Studies

As a critic of ideologies and social institutions in the Atlantic World, José F. Buscaglia’s work deals primarily with the history of ideas and collective memory, focusing on the political imaginary and the discourse on the human body in the making o…

Assistant Professor of Religion and Africana Studies

N. Fadeke Castor is a Black Feminist ethnographer and African diaspora studies scholar, with research and teaching interests on religion, race, and the intersectional politics of decolonization. Before joining Northeastern University she taught Afro-…

Assistant Teaching Professor of Spanish and Portuguese; Director of the Spanish Language Program

Dr. Cuenca graduated from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst with a degree in English and Spanish Language Teaching, holds a Master’s in Hispanic Studies from Boston College, and a PhD in Hispanic Language and Literature from Boston Universit…

Director of Africana Studies, Dean’s Professor of Culture and Social Justice, and Professor of Africana Studies and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Régine Michelle Jean-Charles is a Black feminist literary scholar and cultural critic who works at the intersection of race, gender, and justice. Her scholarship and teaching in Africana Studies includes expertise on Black France, Sub-Saharan Africa,…

Professor of Africana Studies, History, and Digital Humanities; Director of Public Humanities

Ángel David Nieves is Professor of Africana Studies, History, and Digital Humanities in the College of Social Sciences and Humanities (CSSH) at Northeastern University and is an Affiliate Professor in the Department of English and in the School of Pu…

Associate Professor of Cultures, Societies and Global Studies

Panford was a Carnegie – University of Ghana Visiting Scholar from June to September, 2016. Prior to that, he was awarded a Fulbright as a Senior Visiting Scholar to Ghana in 2011-2012. Since 2009, Panford’s research and publications have been on Gha…

Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies; Director of Asian Studies

Philip Thai is a historian of Modern China and East Asia with research and teaching interests that include legal history, economic history, and diplomatic history. He is the author of China’s War on Smuggling: Law, Economic Life, and the Making of th…

Associate Professor of Cultures, Societies and Global Studies

Daniel Noemi Voionmaa is a scholar of Latin American literature and culture. His research and teaching focuses on the intersection of critical theory and literature, and on visual arts, film, and politics. He is the author of three books and many art…

Associate Professor of Cultures, Societies and Global Studies

Prior to joining Northeastern Dr. Richard Wamai was a research fellow in the Takemi Program in International Health at Harvard School of Public Health. Before that, Dr. Wamai was a researcher at Oxford University (UK) Department of Social Policy. His…

Professor of Cultures, Societies and Global Studies

Alan West-Durán was born in Cuba and raised in Puerto Rico. He is a poet, translator, essayist, and critic. His interests and research are in Caribbean literature, Afro-Cuban culture (art, music, religions, and literature) and Latin American Film. …

Senior Academic Specialist

Alma Bournazian is a senior academic specialist in the American Sign Language (ASL) Program at Northeastern University. Ms. Bournazian develops the curriculum for and teaches all levels of ASL, as well as several Deaf Studies courses. In addition, sh…

Director of the American Sign Language & Interpreting Education Program; Teaching Professor of Interpreting

Dr. Lori Whynot brings diverse experiences from a 30-year professional interpreting practice that began in Boston and led her to several countries and eventually to Melbourne Australia in 2011. She has ties to the Northeastern community as a former s…

Professor Emeritus of Cultures, Societies and Global Studies

A social scientist and gender specialist Chandler’s research in international development is focused on 21st century higher education, gender equality, post and neo-colonial studies, arts and culture, and race and cultural competency in nations under…

Professor Emeritus of African American Studies and History

Robert L. Hall’s articles have been published in such journals as the Florida Historical Quarterly, the Griot, the Western Journal of Black Studies, the Independent Schools Bulletin, the Maryland Historical Magazine, Sociological Inquiry, and t…

Professor Emeritus of Cultures, Societies and Global Studies