Department Faculty

Director of Africana Studies Program; Associate Professor of English and Africana Studies

Professor Nicole N. Aljoe’s fields of specialization are eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Black Atlantic Literature, the Slave Narrative, Postcolonial Studies, and eighteenth-century British Novel. Professor Aljoe’s recent publications includ…

Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Moya Bailey is a scholar of critical race, feminist, and disability studies. Her work focuses on marginalized groups’ use of digital media to promote social justice as acts of self-affirmation and health promotion. She is interested in how race, gend…

Professor & Chair, Cultures, Societies, and Global Studies; Professor, Political Science; Professor, International 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 …

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…

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…

Professor of Cultures, Societies and Global Studies

José F. Buscaglia is a philosopher, university administrator, and consultant. Deeply trans-disciplinary, his work deals primarily with the history of ideas and social institutions, the discourse on the human body in theorizing the public sphere and c…

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-…

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…

Part-time Lecturer

Angela Herbert has worked as an ASL/English interpreter both in educational and freelance settings including K-12, post-secondary, medical, mental health, performing arts, conferences, and twelve-step programs. She holds national certification throug…

Senior Academic Specialist

Jim Lipsky is currently a Senior Academic Specialist with the ASL Program at Northeastern University (since 1992). He teaches all ASL levels, ASL Linguistics, ASL Numbers and Fingerspellling, ASL non-manual markers, as well as Deaf Studies. He is als…

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

Ángel David Nieves is the author and co-editor of two historical monographs, including An Architecture of Education: African American Women Design the New South (University of Rochester Press, 2018) and ‘We Shall Independent Be:’ African American Pla…

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 Emeritus of Cultures, Societies and Global Studies

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…

Associate 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. …

Director of the American Sign Language 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…