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 Digital Humanities and Computational Social Science. His research uses techniques from natural language processing, machine learning, Bayesian statistics, and …

Laura Beerits

Associate Teaching Professor in English; Director of the Writing Center

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

Winner of the CSSH Outstanding Teaching Award (2025). 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 re…

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 for MA in International Affairs; Associate Teaching Professor of Political Science

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 are ce…

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; Undergraduate Program Director, Sociology and Anthropology

Carie Little Hersh is an Associate Teaching Professor, Undergraduate Program Director, Sociology and Anthropology, public anthropologist, and former lawyer. Her research focuses on religion, spirituality, healing, secularism, and knowledge production…

Michael P. Stone

Associate Chair and Teaching Professor of Economics

Michael P. Stone joined the Economics department at Northeastern in 2014. He is a graduate of the University of Connecticut, where he received his J.D. in 2005 and Ph.D. in Economics in 2010. His areas of specialization are law and economics, public …

Associate Chair and Teaching Professor of Economics

Michael P. Stone joined the Economics department at Northeastern in 2014. He is a graduate of the University of Connecticut, where he received his J.D. in 2005 and Ph.D. in Economics in 2010. His areas of specialization are law and economics, public …

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 is a faculty member in the Department of Economics at Northeastern University, the founder and executive director of the Cape Cod-based non-profit Sustainable Practices, and the editor-in-chief of the journal Sustainability and C…

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; Director of Asian Language Programs; Academic Coordinator of the Chinese program and 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 of Spanish and Portuguese; Academic 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

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 Poli…

Gregory Zimmerman

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

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 and fam…

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; Director of the Writing Center

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 for MA in International Affairs; Associate Teaching Professor of Political Science

Frank Georges

Associate Teaching Professor of Economics

Carie Hersh

Teaching Professor in Anthropology; Undergraduate Program Director, Sociology and Anthropology

Michael P. Stone

Associate Chair and Teaching Professor of Economics

Associate Chair and 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; Director of Asian Language Programs; Academic Coordinator of the Chinese program and the Less Commonly Taught Languages

Boris Yelin

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

Michelle Zaff

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; Dean’s Leadership Fellow

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