New Faculty and Visiting Scholars in 2024

Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminology and Criminal Justice

Matthew Alemu completed his PhD in the joint Sociology and Public Policy program at the University of Michigan. His research broadly examines how experiencing an absent father as a youth influences one’s life course. Specifically, his dissertat…

Associate Professor of Sociology and Health Sciences

Taylor M. Cruz is a sociologist of science, technology, and medicine. She studies the societal dimensions of data analytics and emerging technologies, including as these appear in health and biomedicine. Her scholarship on electronic health records a…

Assistant Professor, History

Professor of Public Policy, Oakland MPA Coordinator

Mark Henderson’s research focuses on environmental and social policy issues in the United States and China, often employing spatial analysis methods using Geographic Information Systems. Based on Northeastern’s Oakland, California campus, he ha…

Associate Professor, Criminology and Criminal Justice & Law

Sarah Lageson is a social scientist and lawyer who researches and writes about data privacy, the U.S. criminal legal system, surveillance, technology, and automation/AI. Dr. Lageson is currently an Associate Professor at the School of Criminology and…

Assistant Professor, Communications Studies and Sociology

Chuncheng Liu is an Assistant Professor of Communication Studies and Sociology. His research interests span science and technology studies (STS), political sociology, critical data studies, economic sociology, medical sociology, and mixed methods. …

Professor and Department Chair, Political Science

Professor, Public Policy and Urban Affairs

Assistant Professor of History and Civil and Environmental Engineering; Legacy Survey of Space and Time Discovery Alliance Catalyst Faculty Fellow

Tiffany Nichols is a historian of science, technology, and the environment. Her current book manuscript focuses on the siting history of large-scale instruments and science facilities, such as the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (…

Elmer V.H. and Eileen M. Brooks Trustee Professor of Crime, Law, and Justice

Professor Katheryn Russell-Brown is the Elmer V.H. and Eileen M. Brooks Trustee Professor of Crime, Law, and Justice, jointly appointed in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice (SCCJ) and the School of Law at Northeastern University. Profess…

Assistant Professor of Architecture and Cultures, Societies, and Global Studies

Ettore Santi is an Assistant Professor with a joint appointment in the School of Architecture and in the Department of Cultures, Societies, and Global Studies. Ettore’s work connects studies of the built environment with debates in rural geography, a…

Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religion and Public Policy and Urban Affairs

Ann C (Anncy) Thresher is an applied ethicist whose work focuses on emerging environmental technologies and, in particular, what risks we’re warranted in taking to solve environmental crises. As part of this, she works with scientists and policy-make…

Assistant Professor, Criminology and Criminal Justice; Assistant Professor, Africana Studies

Korey Tillman’s research sits at the nexus of race, policing, and empire. His work examines how the imbricated histories of racial slavery and colonialism shape contemporary policing and push Blackness outside the category of Human. As an aboli…

Professor, Political Science & Computer Science

Associate Teaching Professor

Fang Fang is a geographer specializing in urban greenspace and landscape dynamics, and environmental planning, particularly in the context of climate change. She employs various data sources and technologies, including Geographic Information Systems …

Assistant Teaching Professor, Writing Program

Matthew’s research has focused heavily on family archives and research through lived experiences. His dissertation, Commemorative Objects: Tracing Memory, Meaning Making, and Uptakes through Family Photographs, dove into his own family archives…

Postdoctoral Teaching Associate, English

Stephanie Kinzinger received her Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she helped build and develop the Greenlaw Gameroom and the minor in Critical Game Studies. Her research engages t…

Postdoctoral Teaching Associate, English

Bailey holds a PhD in Rhetoric and Composition from Georgia State University in Atlanta, her beloved hometown. She has been a writing teacher for almost a decade and is currently researching new pedagogical frameworks for the generative age. …

Assistant Teaching Professor

Etai Mizrav, PhD, is a professor, researcher, and consultant specializing in educational policy and inequality. His research investigates 21st-century drivers of educational inequality and discriminatory policies contributing to opportunity and achie…

Assistant Teaching Professor, English

Olivia Ordoñez’s research examines the ways in which individuals and communities engage in dialogue across differences in sociopolitical location, such as race, gender, disability, and economic status. In particular, she assesses, with an eye t…

Postdoctoral Teaching Associate, Writing Program

Fi Stewart-Taylor received a PhD in English from the University of Florida in 2024. They study multimodal, self published, and small press texts, particularly (web)comics and zines. Their recent work considers the relationship between mediums, publis…

Assistant Teaching Professor of Philosophy; Oakland PPE Program Coordinator

Alec Stubbs serves as the Politics, Philosophy, and Economics Program Coordinator for Northeastern University Oakland. He received his PhD from Loyola University Chicago in 2022. His work focuses on the philosophy of work, prefigurative politics, pos…

Assistant Teaching Professor of History

Michael Thornton teaches and researches Japanese and East Asian history, with a particular interest in the history of cities and urbanization. He has two major projects underway: the first focuses on the relationship between urbanization and colonial…

Postdoctoral Teaching Associate, English

Mina Vidrine joined Northeastern from the University of Oregon, where she taught writing for five years while completing her PhD in English. In 2022, she spent a year teaching writing and literature at Transilvania University of Brașov (Romania) as a…

Assistant Teaching Professor

Yafeng Wang is an Assistant Teaching Professor at Northeastern University, holding a joint appointment with the College of Social Sciences and Humanities and the College of Engineering. Before joining Northeastern, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the…

Postdoctoral Teaching Associate, English

Dr. Griffin Zimmerman (they/he) earned their PhD in Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English from University of Arizona. Griffin is a trans, spoonie, and neuroqueer scholar who specializes in interdisciplinary critical disability studies, s…

Visiting Lecturer, Political Science

Zachary Agatstein has a BA in political science from St. Mary’s College of Maryland and completed his M.A. and Ph. D in political science at Northeastern University. His dissertation, entitled Perpetrator, Facilitator, Resister: A framework for…

Distinguished Visiting Professor in Residence, Humanities Center and English

Visiting Lecturer, Cultures, Societies, and Global Studies

Ericka Knudson holds a doctorate in film studies from the University of Paris. She has taught courses on film, media, communications at Harvard University, Stanford Continuing Studies, Northeastern and at the University of Paris. She has published ar…

Visiting Lecturer, Philosophy and Religion

Lisa McLeod’s areas of interest include philosophy of race, critical race and gender theory, carceral studies, and health care ethics. She holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Stanford University and a J.D. from UCLA School of Law. Prior to teachin…

Visiting Lecturer, History

Erina Megowan is a historian of the Soviet Union, with particular interest in the legitimization of war and the Soviet creative intelligentsia. She teaches widely in Russian, Soviet and European history. Currently she is working on a project that ex…

Visiting Lecturer in Spanish

Visiting Lecturer, Political Science

Eliza Osorio Castro earned a PhD in Political Science from Purdue University and an MA from the same institution. Osorio Castro also has an MA in Political and Social Studies from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and a B.A. in Inter…

Visiting Assistant Professor

Lauren Savit is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program. She has expertise in feminist media studies, queer theory, and feminist pedagogy. Her research examines the co-constitutive relationship between med…

Visiting Lecturer in Korean

Gahye Song’s primary research interests lie in describing grammar use in naturally-occurring social interaction and incorporating these insights into second and foreign language grammar instruction. She is also interested in using conversation …

Visiting Lecturer, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice

Murat Uzer is a Northeastern University alum, currently finishing up his doctoral degree in criminology. The topic of his dissertation is arson investigators’ occupational attitudes and perceptions. Uzer is passionate about teaching and studyin…

Visiting Lecturer, Economics

Nan Zhou received his BS in Economics and Computer Science from the California Institute of Technology in 2007 and received his PhD at the Johns Hopkins University Department of Economics in 2014. His research is in decision theory and financial m…