Faculty Promotions in 2022

Nicholas Beauchamp

Associate Professor of Political Science

Nick Beauchamp is a core faculty member of the Network Science Institute and the NULab for Text, Maps and Networks. His research uses techniques from natural language processing, machine learning, Bayesian statistics, and network analysis to examine …

Laura Beerits

Associate Teaching Professor in English

Laura Beerits’ research and teaching interests include student writing practices, teaching assistant pedagogy, and the contemporary American coming-of-age novel. …

Jeremy Bushnell

Teaching Professor in English

Jeremy P. Bushnell is the author of The Weirdness (Melville House, 2014) and The Insides (Melville House, 2016). He lives in Dedham, Massachusetts. …

Robert Cross

Associate Teaching Professor of History and International Affairs

Before coming to Northeastern, he taught at Colgate, Loyola Marymount, and Tufts, as well as at Vanderbilt, where he held a postdoctoral fellowship from 2012 to 2014. Dr. Cross’s broad range of research interests includes Britain, Spain, and early mo…

Jill Dupree

Associate Teaching Professor of Economics

Jill Dupree’s teaching and research interested are in the areas of International Economics, Economic Development, and Economic History. She currently serves on the Board of the Westborough Housing Authority where she oversees the management of …

Julie Garey

Graduate Program Director, Master of Arts in International Affairs; Associate Teaching Professor of Political Science

Dr. Julie Garey specializes in international relations, US foreign policy and national security, and international organizations. Her courses offer extensive experiential learning opportunities both inside and outside of the classroom. All courses ar…

Frank Georges

Associate Teaching Professor of Economics

Frank Georges has research interests in applied microeconomics, econometrics, labor economics and industrial organization. He has written about diverse topics that involve both data and theory. One of his papers explores the effect that incarceration…

Carie Hersh

Teaching Professor in Anthropology

Carie Little Hersh is an Associate Teaching Professor, public anthropologist, and former lawyer. Her research focuses on religion, spirituality, healing, secularism, and knowledge production in American parachurches. Past research has included U.S. N…

Michael Stone

Teaching Professor of Economics

Michael Stone joined Northeastern after serving four years as an assistant professor at Quinnipiac University. He received his PhD in economics in 2010 from the University of Connecticut, and also holds a JD from the University of Connecticut School …

Ayşen Tanyeri-Abur

Teaching Professor of Economics

Ayşen Tanyeri-Abur has worked for more than three decades in international development with extensive field experience in many countries around the world. Her primary areas of interest are food and agricultural policy analysis, agriculture and develo…

Kumiko Tsuji

Teaching Professor of Japanese

Kumiko Tsuji was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan. After graduating from Sophia University in Tokyo, she obtained her MA in English (TESOL) from California State University and her PhD in theoretical linguistics from Georgetown University. The focus o…

Madhavi Venkatesan

Associate Teaching Professor of Economics

Madhavi Venkatesan earned her doctorate, master’s and bachelor’s degrees in economics from Vanderbilt University and has published three economics textbooks under the series A Framework for Sustainable Practices: Economic Principles: A Primer, Foun…

Gustavo Vicentini

Teaching Professor of Economics; Undergraduate Program Director

Gustavo obtained a PhD in economics from Boston University. His areas of research interest are industrial organization and applied econometrics. He is currently an associate teaching professor in the Department of Economics at Northeastern Universi…

Vanessa Wei

Associate Teaching Professor of Chinese; Associate Director of the Less Commonly Taught Languages

Vanessa Wei teaches all level of Chinese. As an educator, she strives to provide an immersive environment for students to develop proficiency in Chinese by using a communicative and tasked-based teaching approach. As a researcher, she conducts classr…

Boris Yelin

Associate Teaching Professor in Spanish and Portuguese; Coordinator of the Portuguese Program

Boris Yelin came to Northeastern University from Purdue University where he completed his MA and PhD in Spanish linguistics. He has taught all levels of Spanish, Latin American culture, beginning Portuguese and French, and various levels of English a…

Michelle Zaff, JD

Senior Co-op Coordinator: Criminal Justice (BS, MS)

Michelle Zaff joined the CSSH co-op program in 2013 and works primarily with undergraduate and graduate students, academic faculty, and co-op employers in the Criminal Justice prgram. During her time in CSSH co-op, she has also worked with the Politi…

Gregory Zimmerman

Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice; Master’s Program Director; Director of Big Data and Quantitative Methods Initiatives

Professor Gregory M. Zimmerman’s record combines strong commitment to graduate education with leading research on the spatial distribution of crime. His scholarship examines the intersection of psychological risk factors for violent offending a…

Faculty Promotions in 2022

Congratulations to all faculty who were promoted July 1, 2022.

Nicholas Beauchamp

Associate Professor of Political Science

Laura Beerits

Associate Teaching Professor in English

Jeremy Bushnell

Teaching Professor in English

Robert Cross

Associate Teaching Professor of History and International Affairs

Jill Dupree

Associate Teaching Professor of Economics

Julie Garey

Graduate Program Director, Master of Arts in International Affairs; Associate Teaching Professor of Political Science

Frank Georges

Associate Teaching Professor of Economics

Carie Hersh

Teaching Professor in Anthropology

Michael Stone

Teaching Professor of Economics

Ayşen Tanyeri-Abur

Teaching Professor of Economics

Kumiko Tsuji

Teaching Professor of Japanese

Madhavi Venkatesan

Associate Teaching Professor of Economics

Gustavo Vicentini

Teaching Professor of Economics; Undergraduate Program Director

Vanessa Wei

Associate Teaching Professor of Chinese; Associate Director of the Less Commonly Taught Languages

Boris Yelin

Associate Teaching Professor in Spanish and Portuguese; Coordinator of the Portuguese Program

Michelle Zaff, JD

Senior Co-op Coordinator: Criminal Justice (BS, MS)

Gregory Zimmerman

Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice; Master’s Program Director; Director of Big Data and Quantitative Methods Initiatives

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