New Faculty and Visiting Scholars in 2021

Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Health Sciences

Dr. Kaitlyn S. Alvarez Noli, Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Health Sciences, holds a joint appointment in the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs (College of Social Sciences and Humanities) and the Department of Health Sciences (Bouvé…

Associate Teaching Professor in English

Christopher Ayala is a writer from Massachusetts. He is a former technology fellow and Juniper Fellow in Fiction at the MFA for Poets & Writers. He is the winner of the inaugural James W. Foley memorial prize and a recipient of a R.E.A.L Diver…

Dean’s Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies; Associate Director of Public History

Kabria Baumgartner is a historian of the nineteenth-century United States, specializing in the history of education, African American women’s and gender history, and New England studies. She is the author of In Pursuit of Knowledge: Black Women and E…

Associate Academic Specialist

Rachel Berman-Kobylarz was born and raised in Las Vegas and has lived and traveled extensively, including studying in Italy for a summer.  She has been profoundly Deaf since birth and prides herself as being Bilingual/Bicultural. Rachel graduated fro…

Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology & Africana Studies

Layla D. Brown is an Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology & Africana Studies and affiliate faculty in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Brown’s research focuses on Pan-African, Socialist, and Feminist social movements in Venezue…

Assistant Professor of Economics

Jianfei Cao studies applied and theoretical econometrics. His research has chiefly been in the areas of machine learning methods in economic applications, causal inference in comparative case studies, and weak identification. His most recent research…

Visiting Assistant Professor

Seulah Choi completed her PhD in political science at Boston University in 2021 and taught classes at Clark University as an adjunct in 2020-2021. Her research interests include international relations, international security, and political networks….

Assistant Professor of Sociology and Health Sciences

Dr. Danielle Crookes is social epidemiologist whose research examines structural, political, and social factors that shape the health of communities of color in the US. Specifically, her research focuses on understanding how immigrant-related policie…

Postdoctoral Teaching Associate in English

Lee Emrich’s research looks at early modern English literature using media studies, performance studies, and feminist approaches. She is currently at work on her book manuscript, Wearable Techne: Dressing Knowledge in Early Modern England, whic…

Postdoctoral Teaching Associate in English

Tabitha Espina joins Northeastern University as a Postdoctoral Teaching Associate, having previously taught at University of Guam, Washington State University, and Eastern Oregon University. She has published in Race and Pedagogy Journal, Asian St…

Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Computer Science

Sina Fazelpour is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Computer Science at Northeastern University. During 2020-21, he is the Council Fellow on the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Data Policy. Sina’s research focuses on issues of …

Visiting Lecturer, World Languages Center

Assistant Teaching Professor of French

Joshua Griffiths’ research explores how sociolinguistic variation interfaces with free or phonological variation particularly in the case of the French e-muet (i.e. Je suis vs J’suis). Dr. Griffiths’ classes guide students to focus on the…

Assistant Teaching Professor of French

Joshua Griffiths’ research explores how sociolinguistic variation interfaces with free or phonological variation particularly in the case of the French e-muet (i.e. Je suis vs J’suis). Dr. Griffiths’ classes guide students to focus on the…

Teaching Professor of Economics

Mark Hooker has taught courses in macroeconomics, econometrics and finance at Dartmouth, Wellesley, and Boston Colleges prior to joining Northeastern in 2020. From 1997 to 2000 he served as a staff economist at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors,…

Director of Africana Studies, Dean’s Professor of Culture and Social Justice, and Professor of Africana Studies and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Régine Michelle Jean-Charles is a Black feminist literary scholar and cultural critic who works at the intersection of race, gender, and justice. Her scholarship and teaching in Africana Studies include expertise on Black France, Sub-Saharan Africa, …

Director of Africana Studies, Dean’s Professor of Culture and Social Justice, and Professor of Africana Studies and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Régine Michelle Jean-Charles is a Black feminist literary scholar and cultural critic who works at the intersection of race, gender, and justice. Her scholarship and teaching in Africana Studies include expertise on Black France, Sub-Saharan Africa, …

Assistant Teaching Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice

Attorney Krista M. Larsen joined Northeastern as an adjunct professor in 2007 and now maintains a full-time Visiting Lecturer position. Her teaching focus is the “Due Process” course, which focuses on the 4th, 5th, and 6th Amendments. She was recogni…

Associate Academic Specialist

Robert G. Lee has been interpreting, teaching, and researching for more than 30 years in face-to-face, remote and hybrid settings. He returns to Boston after 13 years having been Senior Lecturer and Course Leader for the MA and Postgraduate Diploma i…

Assistant Academic Specialist

Krishna Madaparthi is a Deaf Canadian raised in the country’s capital city, Ottawa, Ontario. He has been a proud ASL instructor since 2014 and Deaf Interpreter since 2015. He has gained a vast deal of teaching experience in different educationa…

Assistant Teaching Professor of Philosophy and Computer Science

Meica Magnani is an assistant teaching professor at Northeastern University, holding a joint appointment with the College of Social Sciences and Humanities and Khoury College of Computer Sciences. Her main line of research spans the areas of moral, s…

Associate Teaching Professor in English

Michael McCluskey’s research looks at the technological changes of the 1920s and ’30s through studies of the film and literature of the period. He is particularly interested in the intersection of the history of technology and the history…

Associate Teaching Professor in English

Justin Mellette’s research and teaching interests include African American and American literature, music, comics and graphic novels, and business and professional writing. His monograph Peculiar Whiteness: Racial Anxiety and Poor Whites in Southern …

Postdoctoral Teaching Associate in English

Dan Metzger is a critical practitioner-researcher whose scholarship focuses on improving first-year student experience through gateway writing instruction. His research applies Black feminism and Foucauldian social theories to student experience and …

Assistant Professor of Race and Social Justice in the Built Environment

Cara Michell is an urban planner with a background in sculpture from Princeton University. Cara holds a Masters in Urban Planning from Harvard University. She was a Senior Urban Planner and Associate at WXY Studio in New York. Cara’s conceptual art h…

Assistant Professor of Economics

Shariq Mohammed is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Northeastern University. His research interests lie at the intersection of labor economics, economic history, and development economics. His current research focuses on two central and related…

Director, Burnes Center for Social Change; Professor

Beth Simone Noveck is a professor at Northeastern University, where she directs the Burnes Center for Social Change and its partner project, The Governance Lab (The GovLab) and its MacArthur Research Network on Opening Governance. The author of Solvi…

Associate Professor of Sociology

Eileen Otis is an Associate Professor of Sociology. She is the author of the award-winning book Markets and Bodies: Women, Service Work and the Making of Inequality in China. Her research has been published in the American Sociological Review, Politi…

Associate Professor of Sociology

Eileen Otis is an Associate Professor of Sociology. She is the author of the award-winning book Markets and Bodies: Women, Service Work and the Making of Inequality in China. Her research has been published in the American Sociological Review, Politi…

Assistant Professor of Law and Political Science

Rashida Richardson specializes in race, emerging technologies, and the law. Richardson researches the social and civil rights implications of data driven technologies, including artificial intelligence, and develops policy interventions and regulator…

Associate Teaching Professor of Philosophy and Computer Science

Vance Ricks is an associate teaching professor at Northeastern University, holding joint appointments with the College of Social Sciences and Humanities and Khoury College of Computer Sciences. Ricks earned his doctorate in philosophy from Stanford U…

Associate Teaching Professor of Philosophy and Computer Science

Vance Ricks is an associate teaching professor at Northeastern University, holding joint appointments with the College of Social Sciences and Humanities and Khoury College of Computer Sciences. Ricks earned his doctorate in philosophy from Stanford U…

Assistant Teaching Professor of Economics

Xiaolin Shi’s research interests include applied econometrics, labor and demographics economics, and public policy evaluations. Xiaolin Shi is the co-founder and an instructor of an educational institute Learning Lab International and is curren…

Assistant Professor of Race, Social Justice, and the Built Environment

Lily Song is an Assistant Professor of Race and Social Justice in the Built Environment at Northeastern University. She holds a PhD in Urban and Regional Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA in Urban and Regional Planning from …

Assistant Teaching Professor of Public Policy and Administration

Cristina Stanica is an Assistant Teaching Professor of Public Policy and Administration. Most of her teaching is in critical core courses that support the MPA and MPP programs, in particular Techniques of Policy Analysis and Principles of Public Admi…

Associate Teaching Professor in English and Director of the Writing Minor

Caitlin F. Thornbrugh is a writer from Kansas City. Her work has appeared in Green Mountain Review, Parcel Literary Journal, The Paper Napkin, and Portel del Sol, among others. She was awarded a 2020 Miami Book Fair Emerging Writer Fellowship Honorab…

Associate Teaching Professor in English

Talia Vestri (“Dr. V”) first joined Northeastern as a Postdoctoral Teaching Associate in 2020, after serving as a visiting faculty member at Vassar College and at the College of the Holy Cross. Now as an Associate Teaching Professor, Dr. …

Visiting Full-Time Lecturer in English

Max first arrived at Northeastern in 2006 as a bright eyed, twenty two year-old graduate student. Now a grizzled veteran with more than ten years’ experience, Max specializes in First-Year Writing and Advanced Writing in the Business Administra…

Visiting Scholar, Philosophy & Religion

Espen Dyrnes Stabell engages in research in ethics and practical/applied philosophy. His academic interests include environmental ethics, decisions under uncertainty, and metaethics and methodology. …

Visiting Faculty, Philosophy & Religion

Philosophical interests: Philosophy of Science: Especially theory – choice; incommensurability problem; Duhem-Quine thesis and its implications for the epistemology of science; laws of nature. Philosophy of Biology: Biological laws and their functi…

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

Mary Gryctko (she/her) holds a PhD in English Literature and a certificate in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies from the University of Pittsburgh. Her research interests include Victorian literature and culture, childhood studies, medical humani…

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

Mary Gryctko (she/her) holds a PhD in English Literature and a certificate in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies from the University of Pittsburgh. Her research interests include Victorian literature and culture, childhood studies, medical humani…

Visiting Scholar, Political Science

Kanako Iuchi researches post-disaster planning approaches and processes to achieve resiliency. Current research themes cover recovery governance, community relocation, and spatial re-development. For the past five years, her research has primarily ce…

Visiting Scholar, Economics

Visiting Faculty, Philosophy & Religion

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. He recently published a chapter on the history of European beer in …

Kosciuszko Foundation Visiting Fellow, Philosophy & Religion

Rafal Urbaniak obtained his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Calgary. He’s been a British Academy Visiting Fellow, a Trinity College Long Room Hub Visiting Fellow, and a Postdoctoral Fellow of Research Foundation Flanders. Now he is an …

Visiting Faculty, English

Sophie Vasset, Associate Professor of English, is a health humanities scholar who focuses on the relationship between medicine and literature in eighteenth-century Britain. She is the author of The Physics of Language in Roderick Random in 2009, and…

Visiting Faculty, Criminal Justice

Visiting Scholar, Economics