New Faculty and Visiting Scholars in 2023

Associate Professor of Economics and Finance

Santiago Caicedo’s research connects microdata with economic theory to study social interactions, human capital formation, economic growth and development, innovation, and organizational economics. Prior to joining Northeastern University, San…

Assistant Professor of Political Science and Cultures, Societies, and Global Studies

Chinbo Chong is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Northeastern University. Her main fields of study are American politics, political behavior, and race and ethnic politics. She was working on her book manuscript titled …

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…

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…

Assistant Professor, Marine and Environmental Sciences and Public Policy

Gabriela Garcia is an assistant professor exploring the intersection between plants and people. As an ecologist, she is especially interested in how ecosystem dynamics on farms influence human decision-making, and how those decisions feed back to inf…

Associate Professor, Journalism and Africana Studies

Assistant Professor of English

Ali Glassie’s research, teaching, and outreach explore the influence of the ocean’s cultural histories and ecological dynamics on the literatures of the Americas. Her current book project, Atlantic Shapeshifters: Sea Literature’s Fluid Forms, l…

Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology and International Affairs

Jelena Golubović specializes in the anthropology of violence. Before joining Northeastern, she held a Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship at The Fletcher School of Global Affairs at Tufts University. Her award-winning work has been published in Journal o…

Stearns Trustee Professor of History and Global Studies

Kris Manjapra works at the intersection of global history and the critical study of race and colonialism. His research connects the Caribbean and Indian Ocean worlds. His books include a comparative study of global emancipation processes and the impl…

Professor of Law and Public Policy

Professor Sharmila Murthy joined the Northeastern University in 2023 as professor of law and public policy within the School of Law and the College of Social Sciences. Initially, Professor Murthy is on leave to serve as director for environmental jus…

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 Professor of International Business, Strategy, and Sociology

Kunyuan Qiao is interested in understanding how history, geography, institutions, and other socioeconomic processes may affect present-day organizations. …

Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Global Asian Studies

Sasha Sabherwal (she/her) is an interdisciplinary scholar of the South Asian diaspora with research interests in critical ethnic studies, the racialization of religion, transnational gender and sexuality studies, and the intersections of caste and ra…

Assistant Professor of Political Science and Psychology

Briony Swire-Thompson is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and Psychology. She is the director of the Psychology of Misinformation Lab and faculty at the Network Science Institute. Her research investigates why people believe in misinformat…

Assistant Professor of Political Science and Communication Studies

Seo Eun Yang (phonetic: Saw-Uhn Yang, nickname: Sunny) (she/her) is a political scientist specializing in graph/network theory, deep learning, Natural Language Processing (NLP), and Computer Vision (CV). Her research lies at the intersection of polit…

Assistant Teaching Professor

Gorka Basterretxea Santiso (Ph.D.) is an Assistant Teaching Professor at the World Languages Center since 2023. His main area of interest is sociolinguistics and bilingualism particularly in Spain and the US and he is interested in discovering new wa…

Assistant Teaching Professor in English

Tabitha Benitez explores the intersections of race, ethnicity, language and systems of power class at the university in a global context. She hopes to pursue a long career in academia wherein she may be able to unteach the white literary canon and pr…

Associate Teaching Professor, Criminology and Criminal Justice

Molly Buchanan has over 20 years of experience in varied academic and non-academic roles across the youth and adult justice fields. She earned her PhD in Criminology, Law, and Society from the University of Florida after early professional experience…

Postdoctoral Teaching Associate in English

Galen Bunting’s research examines shell-shock narratives and gendered diagnoses in Modernist literature and traces textual representations of masculinity and gender in the aftermath of the First World War. In his research, he centers those on t…

Postdoctoral Teaching Associate in English

Galen Bunting’s research examines shell-shock narratives and gendered diagnoses in Modernist literature and traces textual representations of masculinity and gender in the aftermath of the First World War. In his research, he centers those on t…

Associate Teaching Professor

Dr. Cali-Ryan Collin is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Human Services Program.  Dr. Collin is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker with more than ten years of clinical practice experience. Her research and practice activities focus o…

Postdoctoral Teaching Associate in English

Shao-wei Huang received his PhD in English at University at Buffalo, SUNY. Interested in literary and writing studies, his teaching and research interests include eighteenth-century Gothic fictions and satires, first-year writing, writing center theo…

Postdoctoral Teaching Associate in English

Blake Huggins received his PhD from Boston University where he also taught in the Writing Program and Core Curriculum. His research examines how feeling and affect impact how we view time, how we remember, and how we re-present ourselves in digital s…

Associate Teaching Professor in English

Kamila Kehoe received her PhD from Cornell University. Her approach to teaching is inspired by the potential of unexpected connections between disciplines, perspectives, and genres to foster writers’ creativity and problem-solving. As a multilingual …

Assistant Teaching Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice

Norair received a BA in psychology from the University of Cincinnati, before completing an MA and Ph.D. in criminology at the University of South Florida. He has taught a variety of courses since 2017, including Criminology, Introduction to Criminal …

Assistant Teaching Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice

Norair received a BA in psychology from the University of Cincinnati, before completing an MA and Ph.D. in criminology at the University of South Florida. He has taught a variety of courses since 2017, including Criminology, Introduction to Criminal …

Assistant Teaching Professor

Akua Twumasi is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs at Northeastern University. She holds a PhD in public administration from North Carolina State University. She graduated with a master’s degree in public…

Research Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice and Health Sciences

Katherine completed a PhD in the Law-Psychology Program at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln in 2021 and a JD, with a concentration in constitutional law, from the University of Nebraska College of Law in 2018. Katherine has diverse experien…

Assistant Research Professor of Participatory Action Research and Provost Impact Fellow

Patrice Williams’ research examines the influence of structural and social determinants on health inequities, using quantitative, qualitative, and geospatial methods.

Visiting Lecturer, Philosophy and Religion

Visiting Lecturer

Rima Farah’s areas of specialization are political and cultural histories of modern Israel and the contemporary Middle East, with an emphasis on the ethnic and national identities of minorities and their political thought. She studies ethnic and poli…

Affiliated Faculty

Pedram Heydari specializes in microeconomic theory with an emphasis on decision theory and behavioral economics. He received his PhD in economics from UC San Diego in 2018. In his research, using both theory and experiments, he studies factors that m…

Visiting Lecturer, Economics

Richeng has many years of undergraduate teaching experience. He teaches a variety of introductory and advanced economics courses. Richeng earned a Ph.D. in economics from Northeastern University and a B.S. in economics and mathematics from SUNY Alban…

Visiting Associate Professor

Lorna Swanson’s research focuses on using law reforms, inclusive processes and emerging technologies to render institutions agile, equitable and effective in responding to changes in climate, technology, demographics and power dynamics. She has…