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Endnotes: Spring 2025 Newsletter

Undergraduate Honors

Clara Barsoum, Political Science, Communication Studies, and Philosophy ’25, received the Alumni Relations Compass Award. 

Halle Brockett, American Sign Language & Interpreting Education ’25,  received CSSH’s Ruth E. Sullivan Scholarship. 

Lily Hyun, International Affairs and Economics ’26, won a Critical Language Scholarship for overseas summer study in critically needed foreign languages. 

Stavroula “Loula” Kostas, Environmental Studies and Sociology ’25,  received a CSSH Outstanding Co-op Award. 

Keneya Onuaguluchi, History, Culture, and Law ’25,  received the university’s Hodgkinson Award, a PEAK Award, and an Outstanding Co-op Award. 

Geneva Palmer, Political Science and Criminal Justice ‘26, received the Sears B. Condit Award.  

Carolina Pacheco-Balcazar, Economics and Political Science ’25. was awarded the Srinivasan Family Award from Northeastern’s Center for Emerging Markets

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Huntington 100: 

  • Grayson Bunting, International Affairs and International Business ’26
  • Alexa Coultoff, Criminal Justice and Journalism ’26
  • Eli Curwin, Political Science and Journalism ’26
  • Alejandra De Leon, International Affairs & Criminal Justice ’26
  • Charlotte Dinsmore, Human Services ’26
  • Hannah Egert, Criminal Justice and Psychology ’26
  • Alana Fields, Politics, Philosophy, and Economics ’26
  • Sarah Fragola, Politics, Philosophy, and Economics ’26
  • Lily Hyun, International Affairs and Economics ’26
  • Madeleine King, Economics ’26
  • Colin McAndrew, Political Science ’26
  • Simran Sharma, Politics, Philosophy, and Economics ’26
  • Liza Sheehy, History, Culture, and Law ’26
  • Sofia Zamora Morales, Politics, Philosophy, and Economics ’26

Spring 2025 PEAK (Project-Based Exploration for the Advancement of Knowledge) Awards:

  • Rory Armstrong, Economics ’26
  • Chloe Chick, Spanish and International Affairs ’25
  • Keneya Onuaguluchi, History, Culture, and Law ’25
  • Julia Roeschenthaler, Spanish and International Affairs ’26
  • Sophie Sawyers, Economics and Data Science ’25
  • Alexis Weldner, Political Science and Business Administration ’25

University First-Gen Awards: 

  • Social Justice Advocacy Award: Clara Barsoum, Political Science, Communication Studies, and Philosophy ’25
  • Experiential Achievement Award: Rackell Carrasco Reyes, Criminal Justice & Psychology ’25
  • Academic Achievement Award:  Satvik Gurram, History ’26

CSSH Co-op Poster Expo Awards:

  • Listia Khairunnisa, MPA ’24 
  • Emma Morgan, Sociology & Political Science ’26
  • Maria Victoria Fernandez, Political Science & Business Administration ’25
  •  Sofia Zamora Morales, Politics, Philosophy and Economics ’26

Graduate Honors

Ayah Aboelela, History PhD Candidate, received an American Research Institute in Turkey Language Fellowship for Summer 2025.

Julisa Fernandez-Rivera, Sociology PhD student, was awarded an American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education (AAHHE) Graduate Student Fellowship

Chetna Kuanr, Sociology PhD Candidate, won a Urban And Regional Sociology Doctoral Program Fellowship from the International Sociology Association, the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IJURR) and the IJURR Foundation. 

Merrily LeBlanc, Sociology PhD student, won a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.

Titilayo Odedele, Sociology PhD Candidate, received a West African Research Association (WARA) Predoctoral Fellowship.

Manushi Sharma, MPP ’25, Outstanding Master’s Student Award for Community Impact Award

Annie Ward, Criminology and Criminal Justice MS 25, Outstanding Master’s Student Award for Leadership

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Laurel and Scroll 100:

  • Ariana Aghili, MS, Political Science and International Affairs, Security and Resilience Studies ’25
  • Anika Kaul Deodhar, MS, Applied Quantitative Methods and Social Analysis ‘25
  • Disha Pansuriya, MS, Econometrics and Quantitative Economics, ’25 
  • Manushi Sharma, MPP ’25 

Faculty and Staff Honors

All faculty accomplishments can be found on our 2024-25 Faculty Accomplishments pages.

Inaugural Humanities Center Global Fellows:

  • Elizabeth Bucar, Professor of Religion and Dean’s Leadership Fellow, for “The Religion Factor: How to Make Spirituality More Meaningful, Responsible, and Effective”
  • Laura Forlano, Professor, Art + Design and Communication Studies (CAMD), for “Automated: Disability and Technology in an Algorithmic Age“
  • Jelena Golubović, Assistant Professor, Cultural Anthropology and International Affairs, for “Rumor and Retribution in Wartime”
  • Risa Kitagawa, Assistant Professor, Political Science and International Affairs, for “Competing Visions of Empire: The Politics of Colonial Narrative in French Indochina”
  • Isabel Martinez, Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology and Cultures, Societies & Global Studies and Director of Latinx, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, for  “Making it Visible: Fifty years of Latinx Stand-Up Comedy in New York City”
  • Sasha Sabherwal, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Global Asian Studies, for “Erasure of Caste within Sikh Diasporic Communities of U.S. and Canada”
  • Carmel Salhi, Associate Professor, Health Sciences (Bouvé) for “Categories of Exclusion: Violent Erasure of Forced Migration and its Classificatory Systems“
  • Philip Thai, Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies and Director of Global Asian Studies, for “In the Shadows of the Bamboo Curtain: Trade, Travel, and Trafficking across Greater China during the Cold War“
  • Yana Mommadova, Sociology PhD Candidate, for “Elite Networks and Democratic Deconsolidation”
  • Hunter Moskowitz, World History PhD Candidate, for “Labor and Race in the Global Textile Industry: Concord, Monterrey and Lowell in the Early 19th Century

AY 2025 Faculty Promotions, effective July 1, 2025

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Milestones

30 Years at Northeastern University:

25 Years at Northeastern University:

20 Years at Northeastern:

15 Years at Northeastern:

  • Erika Boeckeler, Associate Professor, English
  • Natalie Bormann, Teaching Professor of Political Science
  • Petula Durocher, Director of Finance, Dean’s Office
  • Kelly Garneau, Teaching Professor, English
  • Ellen Jackson, Assistant Teaching Professor in English
  • Doreen Lee, Associate Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
  • Lori Lefkovitz, Ruderman Professor of Jewish Studies; Director of Jewish Studies Program; Professor of English
  • Ioannis Livanis, International Affairs Associate Director; International Affairs Undergraduate Program Director; Teaching Professor in International Affairs and Political Science
  • Cecelia Musselman, Teaching Professor in English; Director of Advanced Writing in the Disciplines
  • Rory Smead, Professor of Philosophy; Ronald L. and Linda A. Rossetti Professor for the Humanities; Interim Chair, Department of Philosophy and Religion
  • Sally Solomon, Assoc Director for Student Support, Undergraduate Advising
  • Nina Sylvanus, Associate Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
  • Richard Wamai, Professor of Cultures, Societies and Global Studies

10 Years at Northeastern:

  • Daniel Aldrich, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy; Director of the Resilience Studies Program; Co-Director of the Global Resilience Institute
  • Ilter Bakkal, Assistant Teaching Professor of Economics
  • Janette Briceno, Administrative Officer, Lazer Lab
  • Ellen Cushman, Dean’s Professor of Civic Sustainability; Professor of English
  • Candice Delmas, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Political Science
  • Andrew Mazzaschi, Deputy Editor, Signs Journal, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
  • Miranda Outman, Managing Editor, Signs Journal, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
  • Jason Riccio, Associate Director, Undergraduate Academic Advising
  • Wajma Yusufzai, Senior Grants Administrator, Dean’s Office

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