Advisory Board

The Humanities Center’s advisory board brings together faculty from our Boston, Oakland, and London campuses. Featuring top faculty from Northeastern’s global campus network, the advisory board works alongside the Humanities Center to help bring about our mission of attending to the past, fostering meaningful conversations in the present, and pursuing more just futures.

Current Advisory Board

Nicole Aljoe

Professor of English and Africana Studies; Graduate Program Director

Professor Aljoe’s research focuses on 18th and early 19th Century Black Atlantic and Caribbean literature with a specialization on the slave narrative and early novels. In addition to teaching in these areas, she has published articles on these…
Régine Michelle Jean-Charles

Director of Africana Studies, Dean’s Professor of Culture and Social Justice, and Professor of Africana Studies and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Régine Michelle Jean-Charles is a Black feminist literary scholar and cultural critic who works at the intersection of race, gender, and justice. Her scholarship and teaching in Africana Studies include expertise on Black France, Sub-Saharan Africa, …
Sari Altschuler

Associate Professor of English; Founding Director, Health, Humanities, and Society Program

Sari Altschuler’s research focuses primarily on American literature and culture before 1865, literature and medicine, disability studies, and the health humanities, broadly understood. She is the author of The Medical Imagination: Literature an…
Lori Lefkovitz

Ruderman Professor of Jewish Studies; Director of Jewish Studies Program; Professor of English

Lori Hope Lefkovitz is the author of In Scripture: The First Stories of Jewish Sexual Identity (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2010), which was named a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in the category of Women’s Studies. Her awards i…
Juliana Spahr

Professor of English

Juliana Spahr is a poet & scholar of 20th c. literature. Her poetry moves between lyricism, explanatory prose, and theoretical discussion. In her most recent book, That Winter The Wolf Came, concerns global struggle, especially those located at t…
Patricia Williams

University Distinguished Professor of Law and Humanities

Patricia Williams, one of the most provocative intellectuals in American law and a pioneer of both the law and literature and critical race theory movements in American legal theory, serves as University Distinguished Professor of Law and Humanities,…
Theodore C. Landsmark

Distinguished Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs; Director, Kitty and Michael Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy

Ted Landsmark has been a civic planner, civil rights and equity advocate, higher education administrator, arts and culture researcher, and community-engaged social activist in Boston and nationally. He serves on the leadership committee of the Northe…
Victoria Cain

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…
Alec Stubbs

Assistant Teaching Professor of Philosophy; Oakland PPE Program Coordinator

Alec Stubbs serves as the Politics, Philosophy, and Economics Program Coordinator for Northeastern University Oakland. He received his PhD from Loyola University Chicago in 2022. His work focuses on the philosophy of work, prefigurative politics, pos…
Brinda J. Mehta

Mills College Germaine Thompson Professor of French and Francophone Studies and Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Program Head, Transcultural Francophone Studies & Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Brinda Mehta is an award-winning scholar of postcolonial literature, transnational feminist thought, and Francophone Studies. Her publications include five monographs along with three co-edited journal issues on Indo-Caribbean/Afro-Caribbean Intellec…
Emily Cousens

Assistant Professor in Politics and International Relations

Emily’s research expertise are in trans feminist philosophy and the history of feminism. Emily received a BA/Leverhulme grant for their 2021-2023 project: Second Wave Trans Feminism’s in Print. Emily’s book, Trans Feminist Epistemologies in the US Second Wave, was published by Palgrave in August 2023. They are now working on a second book: Before Trans Feminism: The Sex/Gender Politics of Virginia Prince and co-editing the forthcoming Routledge International Handbook of Gender and Sexuality.
Sarah Kanouse

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…
Brian Ball

Head of Faculty and Senior Lecturer in Philosophy

Dr Brian Ball is the Head of Faculty and Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at New College of the Humanities. He received a Bachelor of Arts from McGill University with Honours in Philosophy and a Minor Concentration in Linguistics, and on graduation was …
Laura Green

Senior Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education; Professor of English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Laura Green supports experiential teaching and learning for CSSH faculty and undergraduates. A scholar of Victorian literature and culture, she has published two books, Literary Identification: From Charlotte Brontë to Tsitsi Dangarembga, and Educati…

Advisory Board

Current Advisory Board

Nicole Aljoe

Professor of English and Africana Studies; Graduate Program Director

Régine Michelle Jean-Charles

Director of Africana Studies, Dean’s Professor of Culture and Social Justice, and Professor of Africana Studies and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Sari Altschuler

Associate Professor of English; Founding Director, Health, Humanities, and Society Program

Lori Lefkovitz

Ruderman Professor of Jewish Studies; Director of Jewish Studies Program; Professor of English

Juliana Spahr

Professor of English

Patricia Williams

University Distinguished Professor of Law and Humanities

Theodore C. Landsmark

Distinguished Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs; Director, Kitty and Michael Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy

Victoria Cain

Associate Professor of History

Alec Stubbs

Assistant Teaching Professor of Philosophy; Oakland PPE Program Coordinator

Brinda J. Mehta

Mills College Germaine Thompson Professor of French and Francophone Studies and Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Program Head, Transcultural Francophone Studies & Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Emily Cousens

Assistant Professor in Politics and International Relations

Sarah Kanouse

Associate Professor of Media Arts

Brian Ball

Head of Faculty and Senior Lecturer in Philosophy

Laura Green

Senior Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education; Professor of English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies