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Professor & Chair, Cultures, Societies, and Global Studies; Professor  International Affairs; Professor, Political Science; Affiliated faculty member of Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies; Affiliated faculty member in the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs

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• “Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime Show Sparks Debate Over Language, Politics“. In Newsweek.
• “Why Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance means big business for NFL.” In News Nation.
• “Bad Bunny Could Be Major Boon for Super Bowl’s Spanish Broadcast.” In Front Office Sports.
• Co-authored with student Diego Maldonado (BA, ’24) “Race and populism on the left: political rhetoric in Hugo Chávez’s Venezuela” in Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies.
  Read article here.

• Co-authored with Ana Abraham
  “Bait and Switch: The American Alt-Right’s Manufactured Martyrdom.”  Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

  “From Porto Rico to Puerto Rico: Citizenship, Race and the Politics of Worthiness.” Bulletin of Latin American Research 42(1): 148-161. https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.13375 .

• Appeared in Northeastern Global News.
  “Will Puerto Rico become a state? For one political science professor, it’s a personal question”.
• Contributor in Forward.
  “Why right-wing Christian politicians are blowing the shofar.“
• Interviewed by Northeastern Global News with Laura Kuhl on  recent destruction from Hurricane Fiona in Puerto Rico.
  “Recovery from Hurricane Fiona cuts to the heart of the U.S.-Puerto Rico Relations“
• Co-Author in Ethnicities.
  “One Identity, Two Flags: Christian Nationalists, the Israeli Flag and National Authenticity” with undergraduate student HyungJin Kim.
• Author of The Politics of Language in Puerto Rico: Revisited,University Press of Florida.
• Co-Author in Journal of Cognition and Culture
  “Towards a Standard Model of the Cognitive Science of Nationalism”.

Associate Professor, International Business & Strategy, D’Amore-McKim School of Business; Affiliated faculty, International Affairs

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• Fulbright Distinguished Scholar Award recipient.
  Featured in Northeastern Global News.
   “Research in international business norms leads Northeastern professor to win Fulbright Scholarship award”
• Co-authored in Journal of International Business Studies.
  Informal institutions and the international strategy of MNEs: Effects of institutional effectiveness, convergence, and distance. 

Associate Teaching Professor International Affairs

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• Featured in Northeastern Global News
  “Northeastern students wanted information on the Yemen conflict. So they went straight to the ambassador.”

Assistant Professor of Economics and International Affairs

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• Abortion bans have led to more relationship violence Northeastern Global News
• Recipient of the 2023 World Bank Economic Review Excellence in Refereeing Award.
  Website and Referees Listing (will be updated soon)
• Curated the Special Issue on the Gendered Effects of Globalization in Developing Countries. Journal of Globalization and Development. 2023.
• News@Northeastern:
   “COVID-19 is more dangerous for older people. But what about locking down alone?”
• Co-authored an article in the Review of Economics and Statistics.
  “Breaking the Cycle? Education and the Intergernational Transmission of Violence”.
• Published in the Journal of Economic Literature
  “Capital Controls: Theory and Evidence”.

Assistant Teaching Professor of History and International Affairs

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• “As peace talks loom, status of Russian language emerges as key battle ground in the Ukraine war” in Northeastern Global News

• “From Ambivalence to Accuracy: The Provisional Government’s Grain Registration in an Intermediary Province, Penza 1917.” The Russian Review 2024, 1-16.   https://doi.org/10.1111/russ.12606

• Published “Peasants and the Russian Revolution,” a chapter in the new book, The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Russian Revolution.

Professor of Political Science and International Affairs

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• Author: The AI Military Race: Common Good Governance in the Age of Military Artificial Intelligence. Oxford University Press. 2023.
  Northeastern Global News article here.
• Spoke with Northeastern Global News:
  • “Military AI: New book anticipates a world of ‘killer robots’ and the need to regulate them”
  •  “Geneva is the hub of world politics and Northeastern students are there learning how negotiations happen on a global scale”
  • “Military takeover in Myanmar is a test for Biden’s foreign policy”
• Interviewed by the Boston Globe.
   “Mass. bill proposed to ban sales and operation of weaponized robots”
• Published in The Christian Science Monitor.
  Read”Why the high-fives for a high seas treaty”
• Published in Nature. 11 May 2021. Stop the emerging AI cold war: Proliferating military artificial intelligence will leave the world less safe — so we must focus on ethics and global cooperation. Nature 593, 169 (2021).
  Read article here.

Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology and International Affairs

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• Interviewed by Northeastern Global News, with Professors Zinaida Miller and Gordana Rabrenovic
  “What is going to happen to ethnic Armenians in Nagorn-Karabakh?”

Associate Professor of Sociology and International Affairs and Graduate Program Director in Sociology

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• Awarded the Robin M. Williams, Jr. Lecturer Award from the Eastern Sociological Society. The Award was established in 1993 as part of the Eastern Sociological Society’s effort to enhance the sharing of sociological ideas within and beyond the discipline.
• “MLK would be appalled by America’s health injustices” in Salon.
• “Language Barriers and Healthcare Challenges for Immigrants with Limited English Proficiency After Health Reform in the United States” in the International Journal of Environmental and Public Health. Co-authored with Virginia Martinez.
• “Trump Administration Takes Action on Immigrants Getting Medicaid” Newsweek
• Co-authored the chapter “A bold policy agenda for improving immigrant healthcare access in the US” in Agenda for Social Justice 3: Solutions.
• “Citizenship privilege harms science” in Nature
• “With cancer cases rising in young people, could earlier screenings help save lives” in Northeastern Global News
• Published in the journal of Ethnic and Racial Studies
  “Reexamining Racism, Sexism, and Identity Taxation in the Academy“.
• Published in Social Sciences on the intersection of race, ethnicity, and legal status or “racialized legal status.”
  “Double Consciousness in the 21st Century: Du Boisian Theory and the Problem of Racialized Legal Status”
• Received an honorable mention for the International Migration Award for Public Sociology from the American Sociological Association.

Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs

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• Published in the Journal of Peace Research.
  “Justice as Fairness or Retribution? Citizen Reactions to Domestic Trials of Wartime Violence“.
• Published “The Logic of Transitional Justice and State Repression: The Effects of Human Rights Prosecutions in Post-Conflict States” in the Journal of Conflict Resolution.
  Read article here.
• Published in International Studies Quarterly
  From Political Violence to Political Trust? How Transitional Justice Affects Citizen Views of Government“.
• Published in World Politics “The Impact of Political Apologies on Public Opinion” on how leaders apologize for historic wrongs, and why this matters.
   “The Impact of Political Apologies on Public Opinion”
• Winner of the 2021 CSSH Outstanding Teacher Award.

Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and International Affairs

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•  “Sociology, meet ecology: How the variability of coffee harvests can teach us about sustainable farming” in Northeastern Global News.
• “The Climate Movement’s Fight for Adaptation” in Green European Journal.
• “Playing God with the atmosphere” in The Atlantic
• “Unlocking climate finance for social protection: an analysis of the Green Climate Fund” in Climate Policy.
• Featured in Grist. “Shining light on energy inequity in Puerto Rico.”
• NPR article. “Climate talks end on a first-ever call for the world to move away from fossil fuels”.

Northeastern Global News

• “How US policies and perceptions impact Puerto Rico’s energy infrastructure”
• “People are blaming cloud seeding for the Dubai flooding. But what is cloud seeding?“
• “‘Historic’ yet ‘disappointing’ COP28 agreement does not go far enough in fight against climate change, experts say”
•  “Climate justice: How do we contribute to sustainable development and address climate change at the same time?”
• “What amount of dangerous chemicals used in fracking go unreported? More than scientists imagined“.
• “Should you get rid of your gas stove? Here’s what you need to know”.
• “Pop-Up Course on Climate Conference Gives Students Front Row Seat at COP26” .
• Co-authored in Current Research in Environmental Sustainability.  “Hurricane Maria offered an opportunity to transform Puerto Rico’s electric grid into a more resilient system. It hasn’t happened.
  Read Northeastern Global News feature here.
• Published in Nature. Climate loss-and-damage funding: how to get money to where it’s needed fast.
• Laura Kuhl Wins 2023 University Excellence in Teaching Award! Congratulations to Professor Laura Kuhl, recipient of Northeastern’s 2023 Excellence in Teaching Award!
  Read full article here
• Published in Current Research in Environmental Sustainability.
  “The Role of Disasters in Shaping Narratives of Resilience and Transformation in Puerto Rico“.
• Co-authored in the journal Urban Geography
  “Managed Urban Retreat: The Trouble with Crisis Narratives“.
• Co-published in the journal Ambio.
  “Locally Led Adaptation: Promise, Pitfalls, and Possibilities“.
• Co-published in Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability.
  “Opportunities for Nature-based Solutions to Contribute to Climate-resilient Development Pathways“.
• Interviewed by News@Northeastern with Amílcar Barreto on recent destruction from Hurricane Fiona in Puerto Rico.
  “Recovery from Hurricane Fiona cuts to the heart of the U.S.-Puerto Rico Relations“.
• Co-authored in Climate Policy.
  Transformational adaptation and country ownership: competing priorities in international adaptation finance.
  
• Winner of the 2022 CSSH Outstanding Teacher Award.
• United Nations Development Programme Briefs (UNDP) Latin America and the Caribbean Climate Week.
  Read the briefs here, and more on the UNDP here.
• Co-authored in Climate and Development.
  Read “The Evolution of Transformational Change in Multilateral Funds Dedicated to Financing Adaptation to Climate Change”.

Professor of Law and International Affairs
School of Law

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Recent Chapter Publication

• “Haunting Justice: Racing and De-racing through Transitional Justice” in the new book Race and Transitional Justice.

Recent Articles

• “After capture of Nicolás Maduro, is the U.S. now at war with Venezuela – and was the move legal?” Northeastern Global News
• “The Promise of Palestinian Statehood is Ringing Hollow” New York Times
• “What Does It Mean to Recognize Palestinian Statehood?” New York Times
• “Australia Will Recognize a Palestinian State. What Would That Mean?” New York Times
• “European leaders divided on ICC arrest warrant bid for Netanyahu” in POLITICO
• “The Impossible Necessity of Racial Justice in Transitional Justice,” in the International Journal of Transitional Justice
• London Review of Books/LRB Blog “Talk of Genocide”
  
• Published in Vox
  “South Africa’s genocide case against Israel, explained.”
• Published in Time
  “U.N. Court Says Israel Muse Prevent Genocide Acts in Gaza, But Doesn’t Order a Ceasefire.”
• Just Security Blog Post
  “In Gaza, Catastrophic Violence of War and Slow Violence of Oppression Collide.”

Northeastern Global News

• “Spain, Norway and Ireland recognize Palestinian statehood. How might the rest of Europe respond?” in Northeastern Global News with Mai’a Cross
• “Will South Africa’s lawsuit alleging genocide change the course of the Israel-Hamas war?”
• Trump peace plan greeted with ‘optimism’ in Israel, but leaves out a ‘vision for Palestinians,’ experts say.
• Who should be in Trump’s so-called ‘international stabilization force’?
• “Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal suggests Biden administration ‘did not push as hard as they could have’ for an end to hostilities”
• “Words as weapons: How the Israel-Hamas war also turned language into a battleground.”
• “Law can’t stop ‘catastrophic violence’ in Israel-Hamas war”
• “Can the U.S. play peacekeeper in the Israel-Hamas war?”
• With Professors Gordana Rabrenovic and Jelena Golubović
  “What is going to happen to ethnic Armenians in Nagorn-Karabakh?”

Faculty Profile

Recent articles:

• In Bali, Northeastern students see resilience and innovation at the heart of climate change and adaptation” in Northeastern Global News

Professor of Sociology and International Affairs

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• “Women, Peace, and Security in the Middle East: An Agenda of Empty Promises?” In Journal of Peace and War Studies, 5^th ed., October 2023, pp. 36-59. journal-peace-war-studies-5th-edition (norwich.edu)

• “Gender Regimes, Polities, and the World-System: Comparing Iran and Tunisia.” Women’s Studies International Forum (vol. 98, no. 3, May 2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.wsif.2023.102721

• Chapter from the book Globalization: Past, Present, Future.
  What was the Arab Spring? The Promises and Perils of Globalization.
• Interviewed by News@Northeastern about Protests in Iran.
   “Protests Raging Across Iran Show ‘Solidarity’ and Anger Against Regime”.
• Co-authored article on Iranian Kurdish women in the city of Sanandaj about their legal status and social positions in Gender and Society. 
  “Women in Iranian Kurdistan: Patriarchy and the Quests for Empowerment“.
• “Toward women’s economic empowerment in MENA.” SDG Action. March 2023. Policy Brief here.
• Interviewed by Bloomberg News on the Arab world’s first female prime minister in Tunisia.
  The Controversy Over the Arab World’s First Female Prime Minister“. Also posted in CSSH News.
• 2021-2022 Fellowship Recipient
  Kluge Chair in the Countries and Cultures of the South, Library of Congress.
  Varieties of Feminism in the Middle East and North Africa.

Professor of Political Science and International Affairs; Co-Director of Middle East Center

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• Recipient of Northeastern’s 2024 Global Educator Award!
  Read full article here.
• Featured in Northeastern Global News
  • “Ransom payment or skilled negotiating? How the US freed five captive Americans in Iran”.
  • “There and back again. These Northeastern employees couldn’t stay away”.

Professor of Sociology and International Affairs

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Books:

• The Geopolitics of Fear: From Security to Solidarity at Europe’s Racial Borders (Stanford University Press, 2025).
• Gaining Freedoms: Claiming Space in Istanbul and Berlin (Stanford University Press, 2015).
• Secular State and Religious Society: Two Forces at Play in Turkey (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).

Articles:

• Author “The Geopolitics of Fear: Pro-refugee Resistance against Europe’s Racial Security” Political Geography.
  Read article here.
• Interviewed by Northeastern Global News
  “The complexities of Turkey’s presidential election. A runoff is not the only surprise”.
• Author “Turkey’s Final exam on Freedom: Boğazici University Fights the Authoritarian Regime,” Social Research: An International Quarterly, 88 (2): 587-618.
  Read article here
• Author “Refugees in the Borderlands: Safe Places versus Securitization in Athens-Greece,” Journal of Urban Affairs, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07352166.2021.1925128
• 2021-2022 Scholarship Recipient
  Awarded a Fulbright Scholarship by the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board

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Diego Maldonado, International Affairs ’24

• Co-authored with Professor Amílcar Barreto “Race and populism on the left: political rhetoric in Hugo Chávez’s Venezuela” in Taylor & Francis Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies.
  Read article here.
  Read Student Pathways here.

Lei Nishiuwatoko, International Affairs ’23, member of the inaugural cohort of Senior Leadership awardees.

• Read “‘You are the benchmark,’ Northeastern President Joseph E. Aoun tells inaugural Senior Leadership Award recipients.”