Associate Professor of History

Victoria Cain is a social and cultural historian of the twentieth century United States. She takes special interest in the history of education, media, and technology. Her most recent book, Schools and Screens: A Watchful History (MIT Press, 2021), c…

Chair and Professor of History

Gretchen Heefner teaches and researches the history of the U.S. in the world, with a focus on militarization, the environment, and the surprisingly intimate relations between national security regimes and the everyday. Her latest book,Sand, Snow and …

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 Professor of Public and Digital Humanities and Professor of Africana Studies and History

Ángel David Nieves was a 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…

Associate Professor of History

Chris Parsons is an interdisciplinary historian of science, medicine, and the environment in early modern Atlantic World. His current research traces the devastating spread of smallpox and other European illnesses in the northeast (New France, New En…

Professor of the Practice of Public History, Emeritus

Marty Blatt served as Professor of the Practice and Director of the Public History Program at Northeastern until Spring 2020. He coordinated bringing the Humanities Action Lab exhibit, States of Incarceration, to campus. Blatt is part of the Universi…

University Distinguished Professor of Law and Affiliate Professor of Africana Studies

Professor Burnham joined the Northeastern University School of Law faculty in 2002. Her fields of expertise are civil and human rights, comparative constitutional rights, and international criminal law. She is the founder of the School of Law’s Civil…

Professor of Journalism and Affiliate in Jewish Studies

Professor of Design and Public Policy

Dietmar Offenhuber’s research focuses on the relationship between design, technology, and governance. He is the author of the award-winning monograph “Waste is Information” (MIT Press) and has published books on urban data and accountability technolo…