Faculty News

Faculty News and Selected Publications (in alphabetical order)

Amílcar Barreto
Professor & Chair, Cultures, Societies, and Global Studies; Professor & Interim Director, 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

• Contributor in Forward
  “Why right-wing Christian politicians are blowing the shofar.”
  Read article here.
• Interviewed by News@Northeastern with Laura Kuhl on  recent destruction from Hurricane Fiona in Puerto Rico.
  Read “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.
  Read article here.
• Author
  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”
  Read article here.

Mai’a K. Davis Cross
Edward W. Brooke Professor of Political Science and International Affairs

• Interview with NECN on China’s involvement in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
  Read “Will China help Russia? Local experts weigh in”
• Coedited European-Russian Power Relations in Turbulent Times, with Pawel Karolewskiof the University of Leipzig. The volumes features contributions from scholars across the U.S., Europe, and Russia.
  Read “European-Russian Power Relations in Turbulent Times”
• Interviewed by News@Northeastern on President Biden’s efforts to rebuild American relations with the European Union.
  Read “Biden seeks to reset relations with Europe. But the ground rules have changed”

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

• Co-authored in Journal of International Business Studies.
  Read Informal institutions and the international strategy of MNEs: Effects of institutional effectiveness, convergence, and distance. 

Bilge Erten
Assistant Professor of Economics and International Affairs

• Interviewed by News@Northeastern on her research into the effects of pandemic-based lockdowns on the mental health of senior citizens.
  Read “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.
  Read “Breaking the Cycle? Education and the Intergernational Transmission of Violence”
• Published in the Journal of Economic Literature. “Capital Controls: Theory and Evidence,” synthesizes recent advances in the theoretical and empirical literature on capital controls.
  Read “Capital Controls: Theory and Evidence”

Denise Garcia
Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs

• 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.
• Spoke with News@Northeastern about the situation in Myanmar—one of the first major foreign policy tests for the Biden administration.
  Read “Military takeover in Myanmar is a test for Biden’s foreign policy”

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

• Published in Social Sciences on the intersection of race, ethnicity, and legal status or “racialized legal status.”
  Read “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.

Risa Kitagawa
Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs

• 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. The article examines how trials addressing wartime acts could reduce repression, but not in ways that most human rights practitioners might hope.
  Read article here.
• Published in World Politics “The Impact of Political Apologies on Public Opinion” on how leaders apologize for historic wrongs, and why this matters.
  Read “The Impact of Political Apologies on Public Opinion”
• Winner of the 2021 CSSH Outstanding Teacher Award.
  With this award, the college recognizes Risa Kitagawa’s deeply thoughtful engagement around pressing social and cultural issues, from Black Lives Matter to the genocide in Rwanda.

Laura Kuhl
Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and International Affairs

• Interviewed by News@Northeastern with Amílcar Barreto on recent destruction from Hurricane Fiona in Puerto Rico.
  Read “Recovery from Hurricane Fiona cuts to the heart of the U.S.-Puerto Rico Relations“
• Co-authored in Climate Policy.
  Read Transformational adaptation and country ownership: competing priorities in international adaptation finance
• Winner of the 2022 CSSH Outstanding Teacher Award.
  With this award, the college recognizes Laura Kuhl’s dedication to experiential education at the intersection of environmental policy and global politics. Laura has inspired her students in multiple modalities, from thoughtfully crafted online capstones to a pioneering pop-up course that brought students into the heart of the United Nations’ climate negotiations.
• Highlighted in News@Northeastern for teaching a one-credit pop-up course tied to the United Nations 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) summit. November 3, 2021.
  Read “Pop-Up Course on Climate Conference Gives Students Front Row Seat at COP26” 
• United Nations Development Programme Briefs. To mark the United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) Latin America and the Caribbean Climate Week, Laura Kuhl and PhD candidate Alaina Boyle published two nature-based solutions policy briefs to support jobs and resilience.
  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”

Valentine Moghadam
Professor of Sociology and International Affairs

• Interviewed by News@Northeastern about Protests in Iran.
  Read “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. July 15, 2021.
  Read “Women in Iranian Kurdistan: Patriarchy and the Quests for Empowerment“
• Interviewed by Bloomberg News on the Arab world’s first female prime minister in Tunisia.
  Read “The Controversy Over the Arab World’s First Female Prime Minister” in Bloomberg Equality. 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

Berna Turam
Professor of Sociology and International Affairs

• 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

Staff News
Julie Boudoukara
Program Coordinator
Winner of the 2021 CSSH Outstanding Staff Award

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