People

Dean’s Professor of Public and Digital Humanities and Professor of Africana Studies and History

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…

Distinguished Professor of Philosophy; Chair, Department of Philosophy and Religion

Serena Parekh is a Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion. She co-edits the journal, Feminist Philosophy Quarterly. She is the author of three books, including her most recent book, No Refuge: Ethics and the Gl…

Department Chair; Associate Professor of Sociology

Liza Weinstein researches and teaches on cities and globalization, urban political economy, and the politics of informality with a regional focus on India. Her work has appeared in Politics & Society, International Journal of Urban and Regional R…

Associate Professor of Geography, Environment, and Society at the University of Minnesota

Dr. Kate Derickson is a scholar of race and urban geography. She is the editor of the journal “Society and Space” and her work has appeared in a range of journals.

Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Minnesota

Dr. Arun Saldanha is a geographer of race and race relations, travel and tourism, and globalization and colonialism. He is the author of “Psychedelic White: Goa Trance and the Viscosity of Race,” 2007.

Associate Professor in History Northeastern London (NCH)

Dr. Olly Ayers’s has a wide-ranging set of academic interests spanning the histories of racial protest, urban environments and digital spatial analysis. He has served as the Director of Graduate Studies and Director of Curriculum Development.

Associate Professor of Media Arts

Sarah Kanouse is an interdisciplinary artist and writer examining the politics of landscape and public space. Her research-based creative projects trace the production of landscape through ecological, historical, and legal forces, particularly focusi…

Associate Professor Clinical Teaching Track, History Department

Dr. Cameron Blevins teaches about United States history and the digital humanities. Some of his broader interests include geography, communications, gender history, and information visualization.

Assistant Professor of History

Jessica C. Linker is a historian of early America and digital scholar. She is working on a book project that examines how women practiced science in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the various social and cultural trends that contemporane…

Dean’s Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies; Associate Director of Public History

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 New England studies. She is the author of In Pursuit of Knowledge: Black Women and E…

PhD in History

Vanessa (She/Her/Ella) is a second year World History Ph.D. student and 2021-2023 HASTAC Scholar at Northeastern University. As a graduate research assistant, she has been involved in “Reckonings: A Local History Platform for the Community-Archivist,…

MS in Library Science, World History PhD Student at Northeastern University

Cassie Tanks graduated from San Diego State University with a B.A. in History and an M.S. in Library Science from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She in an incoming World History PhD student at Northeastern University.

Assistant Professor of Race, Social Justice, and the Built Environment

Lily Song is an Assistant Professor of Race and Social Justice in the Built Environment at Northeastern University. She holds a PhD in Urban and Regional Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA in Urban and Regional Planning from …

Assistant Professor of Art at Smith College

Alex Callender’s studio practice incorporates painting, drawing, and installation to explore intersections between myth, colonial legacies, and material culture. She considers questions of race and borders as well as environmental instability.

Associate Professor of Philosophy

Professor Smith received his PhD in 2004 from UNC Chapel Hill. He has published in political theory, moral philosophy, action theory, and jurisprudence. Currently, he is working on a project on the materiality of agency and co-authoring a book on urb…

Lecturer of Human Services; Director of CETR; and Interim Director of University Honors

Becca began at Northeastern University in February 2013, where she serves as the Director of Community-Engaged Teaching & Research and starting Summer 2 2022 she is the Interim Director of the University Honors Program. She has more than 15 years…

PhD in Public History

Kasya O’Connor Grant earned her B.A. in American Studies with a concentration in Education Policy from Kenyon College in 2016. She went on to spend several years as an educator before returning to school. Kasya’s research interests includ…

Project Director, Mapping Prejudice Project

Dr. Kirsten Delegard is one of the co-founders of the Mapping Prejudice Project. She was originally trained as a women’s historian and explored the history of women and politics in her early research.

Full-time Faculty Member at Paul Quinn College in Dallas

Dr. Erv James is responsible for teaching U.S. History, World Geography, World Civilization, and African American History. He is committed to developing innovative andragogical teaching techniques for first-generation college students.

Chair of English and Humanities, State University of New York at Canton

Dr. Alainya Kavaloski teaches courses in contemporary American literature, digital media writing, and narrative and mobile games. Her research examines rhetorical infrastructures across emerging media genres to investigate shifting media forms.

Instructor of English at the University of Mississippi

Dr. Jennie Lightweis-Goff’s teaching and scholarship challenges the centrality of nation and periodization to literary studies, exploring minor spaces – smaller than nations or regions – as literary archives with vast temporal boundaries.

Ph.D. University of Colorado Boulder in Philosophy (2022)

Dr. Erica Nieblas specializes in philosophy of race, philosophy of Law, applied ethics, ethical theory, and philosophy of science. Her research examined social, moral, and political philosophy, and feminist philosophy.

Assistant Professor of Economics at Fordham University

Dr. Meiping Sun is an applied microeconomist with interest in urban economics. In particular, her research focuses on public policies that may disproportionately affect vulnerable urban groups.

Professor of the History of Science and Antonio Madero Professor for the Study of Mexico at Harvard University

Dr. Gabriela Soto Laveaga’s current research interests interrogate knowledge production and circulation between Mexico and India; medical professionals and social movements; and science and development projects in the twentieth century.

Division Chair of the Social Sciences and Associate Professor of Women’s Studies at St. Catherine University

Dr. Jocelyn Fenton Stitt is an interdisciplinary scholar trained in women’s and critical race studies. She earned her Ph.D in Women’s Studies and English from the University of Michigan.

English Professor at LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York

Dr. Lara Kattekola’s research interest examines postcolonial and South Asian diasporic novels and films.

Lecturer of Sociology at Emmanuel College

Dr. Samuel Maron’s research examines urban imaginaries, neoliberalism, and spectacle in global cities. He received a Ph.D. from Northeastern University in 2021.

Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Northeastern University

Dr. Lisa McLeod is professor of Philosophy at Guilford University.

Lecturer of English at Fordham University in New York City

Dr. Caitlin Cawley specializes in 20th and 21st century American literature, film and visual culture, and critical theory. Her current project, “Occupying War: American War Culture since 1989,” is a cultural study of America’s “forever wars.”

Lecturer in English at Misericordia University

Dr. Richard Hancuff specializes in national identity formation through and against competing and intersecting discourses primarily of race and ethnicity, particularly in African American and American literature.

Ph.D Candidate in Philosophy at Stanford University

Pat B. Hope specializes in social ontology and epistemology, ethics and meta-ethics, political philosophy, feminist/queer philosophy, critical race and disability studies, 19th-/20th century, and european philosophy.

Full Professor in the Department of Women Gender and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) at Rutgers University Director of the Institute for Women’s Leadership (IWL)

Dr. Rebecca Mark’s scholarship addresses southern writing and cultural representations of trauma.

Assistant Professor of Francophone Civilizations and Cultures, Department of Modern Languages, Linguistics, and Intercultural Communication, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Dr. Haniyeh Pasandi’s research examines francophone graphic novels and comic books, modern and contemporary French-language literature with an emphasis on visual culture, comparative literature, and transnationalism, and cross-cultural exchange.

Assistant professor of History at Prairie View A&M University

Dr. Karl Baughman’s research specializes in the Roman Empire and early Christianity. He also dabbles a bit in the wider ancient Mediterranean and the connections between classical and modern understandings about race and gender.

Assistant Professor of Liberal Arts at Montserrat College of Art

Dr. Katherine Paige Farrington pursued fine arts training, eventually earning an MFA in Visual Arts at Leslie University, and completed her doctorate in Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Art Theory with the Institute for Visual Arts.

Associate Professor of Sociology and Ethnic Studies at the Borough of Manhattan Community College

Dr. Marci Littlefield’s areas of specialization include race and ethnicity, gender, and family. She received a Master in Public Affairs from the Lyndon B. Johnson Graduate School of Public Affairs and a Ph.D in Sociology from the University of Texas.

NIAAS Core Group Member & Project Developer with the ReIdren Business Group

Joel Mackall is a co-founder of the S.O.S. Living Museum in Roxbury, a co-founder of the Hidden History of Black Boston Tours, a co-founder of the Nubian Writer’s Group, a self-published author, and a secretary of the Lowell Association.

Founder of Live Like A Local Tours

Collin Knight is a Roxbury Boston native who grew up near Nubian Square. He always had a passion for community work and decided to channel this enthusiasm into “Live Like A Local.”

North End Boston Food Tour Founder

Robert Agrippino was born and still resides in the North End of Boston. He enjoys sharing the food culture and personal stories of the unique neighborhood he calls home.

Executive Director of the Royall House and Slave Quarters, PhD Candidate at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the Department of American Culture, & American Democracy Fellow in the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History

As a public history scholar, Kyera recently served as an advisor on the Boston Art Commission’s Recontextualization Subcommittee for the bronze Emancipation Group Statue. She is also a member of the Board of Public Humanities Fellows at Brown.

President & Head Curator of the Leventhal Map Center

Dr. Garrett Dash Nelson (he/him) is a historical geographer whose work focuses on the relationship between community structure, geographic units, and political ideology.

Museum Director at the West End Museum

Sebastian Belfanti is passionate about the history of Boston and exploring the past, current, and future issues facing urban communities and landscapes.