Our Team

Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs; Director of the Center for International Affairs and World Cultures; Dean’s Professor of Political Science, International Affairs, and Diplomacy

Mai’a K. Davis Cross is the Dean’s Professor of Political Science, International Affairs, and Diplomacy and the Director of the Center for International Affairs and World Cultures in the College of Social Sciences and Humanities at Northeastern Unive…

Administrative Coordinator

Diana Atoui is the Administrative Coordinator for the Center for International Affairs and World Cultures (CIAWC), International Affairs (IAF) program, and Center for Cultures, Societies, and Global Studies (CSGS). She works closely with the director…

Chair and Associate Professor of History; Associate Director of the Center for International Affairs and World Cultures

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 …