Academic Advisory Board

Professor, Political Science and Public Policy

An award winning author, Daniel Aldrich has published five books, more than seventy peer reviewed articles, and written op-eds for The New York Times, CNN, Asahi Shinbun, along with appearing on popular media outlets such as CNBC, MSNBC, NPR, and Huf…

Patrick F. & Helen C. Walsh Research Professor; Thomas E. Moore Faculty Fellow

Davis Distinguished Professor of American Literature; Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Carla Kaplan, a professor of English, African-American and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, holds the Davis Distinguished Professorship in American Literature and writes on modern, African-American, and women’s history and culture. She has pub…

Executive Director, Center for Spirituality, Dialogue, and Service

Director, Institute for Health Equity and Social Justice Research; Professor of Health Sciences and Sociology

Alisa K. Lincoln is Director of the Institute for Health Equity and Social Justice Research (formerly the IUHR) in the Bouvé College of Health Sciences. She is Professor of Sociology (CSSH) and Health Sciences (Bouvé). Working with colleagues through…

Sr. Grant Manager, Institute for Health Equity and Social Justice Research, Bouve College of Health Sciences

Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, College of Science

Professor of Law, School of Law

Associate Professor of Sociology; Director of the Brudnick Center on Violence and Conflict

Gordana Rabrenovic’s research and publications are in the area of community studies and intergroup conflict and violence. Her current work focuses on the initiation, escalation, and persistence/de-sistance of conflict and violence in three conf…

Associate Professor, Marine and Environmental Sciences, Marine Science Center, College of Science

Interim Dean; Professor of Philosophy; Director, Ethics Institute

Ronald Sandler is a professor of philosophy and Director of the Ethics Institute at Northeastern University. His primary areas of research are environmental ethics, ethics and emerging technologies, ethical theory, and Spinoza. Sandler teaches course…

Director of Hybrid and Online Programs in the School of Law; Director of the Law and Public Policy Minor

Dan Urman runs the Law & Public Policy Minor at the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Hybrid & Online Programs at Northeastern University School of Law. He has taught at Northeastern since 2009. Dan has run various university prog…

Professor of Sociology; Professor and Director of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Dr. Suzanna Danuta Walters’ work centers on questions of gender, feminist theory and politics, sexuality, and popular culture and she is a frequent commentator on these issues for the media. Her most recent book, The Tolerance Trap: How God, Genes, a…