New Faculty and Visiting Scholars in 2020

Please join us in welcoming our new faculty members, as well as our visiting faculty and scholars, to the College of Social Sciences and Humanities.

New Faculty

Margot Abels

Associate Teaching Professor of Human Services and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Margot Abels has a joint appointment in the Human Services and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies programs. After many years of professional work in the public health and public education fields, she completed her doctorate at Northeastern. Her sc…
Chad Lee-Stronach

Assistant Professor of Philosophy

Chad Lee-Stronach is an Assistant Professor in Information Ethics. His current research develops ethical principles relating to uncertainty, privacy, explanation, and misinformation. He received his PhD in Philosophy from the Australian National Univ…
Jessica Linker

Assistant Professor of History

Jessica C. Linker is a historian of early America and digital scholar. She is working on a book project that examines how women practiced science in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the various social and cultural trends that contemporane…
Cassie McMillan

Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminology and Criminal Justice

Cassie McMillan’s research applies a social networks perspective to disentangle how our connections both reproduce and challenge systems of social inequality. She is interested in developing statistical and computational methodologies that can better…
Ángel David Nieves

Dean’s Professor of Public and Digital Humanities and Professor of Africana Studies and History

Ángel David Nieves was a Professor of Africana Studies, History, and Digital Humanities in the College of Social Sciences and Humanities (CSSH) at Northeastern University and is an Affiliate Professor in the Department of English and in the School of…
K.J. Rawson

Professor of English and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies

K.J. Rawson works at the intersections of the Digital Humanities and Rhetoric, LGBTQ+, and Feminist Studies. Focusing on archives as key sites of cultural power, he studies the rhetorical work of queer and transgender archival collections in brick-an…
Moira Zellner

Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs; Director of Participatory Modeling and Data Science; Director, MS in Urban Informatics Program; Co-Director of NULab for Digital Humanities and Computational Social Science

Moira Zellner’s academic background lies at the intersection of Urban and Regional Planning, Environmental Science, and Complexity. She has served as Principal Investigator and Co-Investigator in interdisciplinary projects examining how specifi…
Qianqian Zhang-Wu

Assistant Professor of English; Coordinator of Multilingual Writing

Dr. Qianqian Zhang-Wu’s research focuses on multilingual writing, translingualism and raciolinguistic ideologies. Her work appears in high-impact, peer-reviewed journals, such as TESOL Quarterly, Written Communication, Research in the Teaching of Eng…
Frances Roberts-Gregory

Future Faculty Fellow, Public Policy and Urban Affairs

Frances Roberts-Gregory joins SPPUA and CSSH as a Northeastern University Future Faculty Fellow. Her feminist activist research explores the experiences of women and youth of color advocating for environmental, energy, and climate justice, with a sp…

New Faculty and Visiting Scholars in 2020

New Faculty

Margot Abels

Associate Teaching Professor of Human Services and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Chad Lee-Stronach

Assistant Professor of Philosophy

Jessica Linker

Assistant Professor of History

Cassie McMillan

Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminology and Criminal Justice

Ángel David Nieves

Dean’s Professor of Public and Digital Humanities and Professor of Africana Studies and History

K.J. Rawson

Professor of English and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Moira Zellner

Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs; Director of Participatory Modeling and Data Science; Director, MS in Urban Informatics Program; Co-Director of NULab for Digital Humanities and Computational Social Science

Qianqian Zhang-Wu

Assistant Professor of English; Coordinator of Multilingual Writing

Frances Roberts-Gregory

Future Faculty Fellow, Public Policy and Urban Affairs

Visiting Scholars and Lecturers

Mark Hooker

Teaching Professor of Economics

Ivana Isailovic

Visiting Scholar of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Krista Larsen

Associate Teaching Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice

Getty Lustila

Assistant Teaching Professor of Philosophy and Religion

Justin Mellette

Teaching Professor in English

Pasquale Pizzimenti

Visiting Scholar of Economics

Rebekah Rollston

Visiting Scholar of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Nafisa Tanjeem

Visiting Scholar of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

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