Affiliated Faculty

Professor, Political Science and Public Policy; Director of the Resiliences Studies Program; Co-Director of the Global Resilience Institute

An award winning author, Aldrich has published five books including Building Resilience and Black Wave, more than 95 peer-reviewed articles, and written op-eds for the New York Times, CNN, HuffPost, and many other media outlets. He has spent more tha…

Associate Teaching Professor, Program Lead, MS in Global Studies and International Relations

Fiona Creed’s career spans the diplomatic, academic, entrepreneurial and nonprofit sectors. She began as a policy analyst at the EU Delegation to the United Nations in New York City and developed that experience into her Ph.D. research on the often-fraught EU representation at the UN. As an assistant professor at University College in Cork, Ireland, Fiona taught international relations and European studies. Seeing a market opportunity, she went on to build and subsequently sell an online retail business in the United Kingdom. Upon returning to the United States, Fiona served as the Executive Director of the United Nations Association of Greater Boston, a nonprofit organization that educates students in diplomacy and global issues through its experiential learning program, Model UN. Fiona also served as a project lead and advisor at SOLVE MIT. Fiona completed her BA and MA degrees at University College, Dublin, Ireland, and her Ph.D. at University College, Cork, including two years as a visiting scholar at the Yale University MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies.

Director of Programs, Arlington Campus; Professor of the Practice in Public Policy and Urban Affairs

Tracy Corley, Director of Programs, Arlington Campus, College of Social Sciences and Humanities, is frequently sought as an expert, public speaker, and guest lecturer in community-engaged research and planning, public policy, law, sustainability, env…

Affiliated Faculty of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; University Distinguished Professor of Law

Professor Davis teaches Constitutional Law, US Human Rights Advocacy and Professional Responsibility. She is a faculty director for the law school’s Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy and the NuLawLab. In 2015-2016, she held the Fulbright…

Professor of Political Science; Founding Director, Global Resilience Institute

Professor Flynn is recognized as one of the world’s leading experts on critical infrastructure and supply chain resilience. He has led teams in conducting post-disaster resilience assessments, with support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the U.S…

Professor of Political Science and International Affairs

Denise Garcia is a Professor at Northeastern University, a founding faculty member of its Experiential Robotics Institute, and recently appointed to the Global Commission on Responsible Artificial Intelligence in the Military. Her latest book is The …

Graduate Program Director, Master of Arts in International Affairs; Associate Teaching Professor of Political Science

Dr. Julie Garey specializes in international relations, US foreign policy and national security, and international organizations. Her courses offer extensive experiential learning opportunities both inside and outside of the classroom. All courses ar…

Dean’s Strategy Council Member

Janet Garvey spent 33 years in the US Foreign Service, retiring at the rank of Minister Counselor. She served as the U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Cameroon from 2007 to 2010 where she instituted a number of programs to fight corruption, promote …

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 current research, “From …

Associate Professor of History

Ilham Khuri-Makdisi teaches courses in Middle Eastern history, World history and urban history. She is particularly interested in Ottoman Eastern Mediterranean cities in the late 19th, early 20th centuries and the movements of people and ideas. Profe…

Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs; Faculty Affiliate, Global Resilience Institute; Faculty Affiliate, Global Asian Studies Program

Risa Kitagawa studies the politics of transitional justice and conflict legacies. Her broader interests include human rights violations, post-conflict processes, political narratives, and public opinion. Her research spans countries in East Asia, Su…

Associate Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and International Affairs

Laura Kuhl’s research examines climate adaptation and sustainable transitions in the United States and internationally. She is particularly interested in questions of power and equity in processes of transformation across multiple scales from individ…

Distinguished Professor of Philosophy; Chair, Department of Philosophy and Religion

Serena Parekh is a Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion. She co-edits the journal, Feminist Philosophy Quarterly. She is the author of three books, including her most recent book, No Refuge: Ethics and the Gl…

Professor of Public Policy and Economics

Professor Prakash is a Research Fellow at CESifo, Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), HiCN Households in Conflict Network (HiCN), Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) Network Researcher, …

Assistant Teaching Professor of History

Malcolm F. Purinton is a Food and World historian whose work focuses primarily on the sociocultural relationships of empire, trade, and technology in the history of beer and brewing. His first book Globalization in a Glass: The Rise of Pilsner Beer t…

Stotsky Associate Professor in Jewish Historical and Cultural Studies

Simon Rabinovitch is the Stotsky Associate Professor of Jewish Historical and Cultural Studies at Northeastern University in Boston, where he teaches and writes on a range of topics in European, Jewish, Russian, and legal history. His books include J…

University Distinguished Professor, International Business and Strategy; Director, Center for Emerging Markets

Ravi Ramamurti is an expert on strategy and innovation in emerging markets. He is University Distinguished Professor of International Business & Strategy and Founding Director of the Center for Emerging Markets at Northeastern U. (University Distinguished Professorship is the highest honor bestowed on faculty at Northeastern U.) Ravi obtained his BSc (Physics) from Delhi University, his MBA from the Indian Institute of Management (Ahmedabad), where he received the Gold Medal for graduating first in his class, and his doctorate in business administration from Harvard Business School, where he was awarded the HBS Dissertation Fellowship.

Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies; Director of Global Asian Studies

Philip Thai is a historian of Modern China and East Asia with research and teaching interests that include legal history, economic history, and diplomatic history. He is currently working on his new book tentatively titled, “In the Shadows of the Bam…

Dean, College of Social Sciences and Humanities

Kellee Tsai, PhD, became the new Dean of the College of Social Sciences and Humanities on February 26, 2024. Her career spans leadership roles in higher education, most recently as dean of the School of Humanities and Social Science and Chair Profess…

Professor of Cultures, Societies and Global Studies

Daniel Noemi Voionmaa is a cultural critic, chronicler, and scholar of Latin American literature and culture. His research and teaching focuses on the intersection of critical theory and literature, and on visual arts, film, and politics. He is the a…

Professor of History

Louise E. Walker is a historian of Mexico and Latin America. Her new book, Debts Unpaid: Two Centuries of Conflict in Mexico’s Economy (forthcoming with Cambridge University Press), illuminates how ordinary people fought for economic justice in Mexic…

Professor of Cultures, Societies and Global Studies

Prior to joining Northeastern Dr. Richard Wamai was a research fellow in the Takemi Program in International Health at Harvard School of Public Health. Before that, Dr. Wamai was a researcher at Oxford University (UK) Department of Social Policy. His…