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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

Faculty Profile

• Appeared in Northeastern Global News.
  Read “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.”
  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.

Edward W. Brooke Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, Director of the Center for International Affairs and World Cultures

Faculty Profile

• Article in Space Daily.
  Read “Tensions on Earth don’t have to affect outer space diplomacy”.
• Appeared in Northeastern Global News.
  Read “Why diplomacy is needed now to set rules for outer space”; and also “Meta fine shows EU is ‘regulatory superpower,’ Northeastern expert says”
  Also in Northeastern Global News:As Finland prepares to join NATO, defense forces have become more ‘visible’ inside its borders.
• Recipient of lifetime membership on the Council of Foreign Relations. Read News@Northeastern here.
• 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”

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

Faculty Profile

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

Assistant Professor of Economics and International Affairs

Faculty Profile

• 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”.

Assistant Teaching Professor of History and International Affairs

Faculty Profile

• 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

Faculty Profile

• Interviewed by the Boston Globe.
  Read “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.
• 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”

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

Faculty Profile

• 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.”
  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.

Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs

Faculty Profile

• Published in the Journal of Peace Research.
  Read “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
  Read”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.
  Read “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

Faculty Profile

• Co-authored in Current Research in Environmental Sustainability. Read  “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.
• 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
• Interviewed by Northeastern Global News on research into building flood-resistant homes in coastal areas with focus on climate justice.
  Read “Climate justice: How do we contribute to sustainable development and address climate change at the same time?” and also “What amount of dangerous chemicals used in fracking go unreported? More than scientists imagined“.
• Published in Current Research in Environmental Sustainability.
  Read “The Role of Disasters in Shaping Narratives of Resilience and Transformation in Puerto Rico“.
• Co-authored in the journal Urban Geography
  Read:”Managed Urban Retreat: The Trouble with Crisis Narratives“.
• Co-published in the journal Ambio.
  Read: “Locally Led Adaptation: Promise, Pitfalls, and Possibilities“.
• Co-published in Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability.
  Read “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.
  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.
  
• Appeared in Northeastern Global News.
  Read “Should you get rid of your gas stove? Here’s what you need to know”.
• Winner of the 2022 CSSH Outstanding Teacher Award.
• Highlighted in News@Northeastern.
  Read “Pop-Up Course on Climate Conference Gives Students Front Row Seat at COP26” .
• 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 Sociology and International Affairs

Faculty Profile

• 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. 
  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“. 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

Faculty Profile

• Featured in Northeastern Global News
  Read “Ransom payment or skilled negotiating? How the US freed five captive Americans in Iran”.
  Read “There and back again. These Northeastern employees couldn’t stay away”.

Professor of Sociology and International Affairs

Faculty Profile

• Interviewed by Northeastern Global News
  Read “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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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.”