New Faculty and Visiting Scholars in 2025

Research Professor of History & Senior Director, DIBI

Scott Gabriel Knowles is originally from Dallas, Texas—he attended the University of Texas at Austin and Johns Hopkins University. Knowles is the Senior Director of Research for the Defense Industrial Base Institute (DIBI) and Research Professor in t…

Assistant Professor, AI Governance

Beatrice Magistro is an Assistant Professor of AI Governance with a joint appointment in the Department of Political Science and the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs at Northeastern University.  She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from th…

Professor, Political Science and Computer Science

Postdoctoral Teaching Associate, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice

Assistant Teaching Professor, English

Abbie DeCamp specializes in memes and internet culture, digital writing, queer theory and visual culture. …

Assistant Teaching Professor, English

Chelsey Grasso is a writer and educator who joins Northeastern with nearly a decade of teaching experience. Her own writing has been published in the Harvard Review Online, the Rumpus, the Indiana Review, the Los Angeles Review, and elsewhere. …

Assistant Teaching Professor, English

Blake Huggins teaches Advanced Writing in the Disciplines and First-Year Writing. He came to Northeastern in 2023 after teaching at Endicott College and Boston University. His interests in digital rhetoric, media, and pop culture build on research ex…

Postdoctoral Teaching Associate, English

So Young Koo received her Ph.D. in Literature, Media, and Culture from Florida State University. She studied Literature at the University of Texas at Dallas (M.A.) and English and French at the University of Texas at Austin (B.A.). She focuses on the…

Associate Teaching Professor, Sociology

Rachel Meyer’s areas of interest include work and labor, social class, political sociology, cultural sociology, social change, social movements, labor movements, U.S. labor history, and qualitative methods. Meyer’s research explores the relationship …

Postdoctoral Teaching Associate, English

Allison Nick (she/her) is a scholar, writer, and educator whose work focuses on interwar and mid-century writing, feminist antifascism, and politics in literature. She completed her PhD in English at the University of Mississippi and has previously t…

Assistant Teaching Professor, Economics

Dr. Richeng Piao is a Teaching Professor of Economics at Northeastern University. He teaches a wide range of courses, including Macroeconomics, Game Theory, and Applied Data Analytics. Dr. Piao’s instruction emphasizes experiential learning, wh…

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…

Postdoctoral Teaching Associate, English

Karina Sembe is a scholar and educator in cultural studies, history, and race and ethnicity studies. She holds a Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies from Boston University. Prior to joining BU, she received a Ph.D. in Literary Studies and worked as a journalis…

Assistant Research Professor of Political Science

Before joining Northeastern, Xiaoxiao was a Postdoctoral Associate in East Asian Studies at the Yale MacMillan Center and a Lecturer in Political Science at Yale University.  She received her Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University. Her research …

Postdoctoral Teaching Associate, English

Mixie Wholey (she/they) is a Boston-based writer, educator and drag performer. She has a PhD in Literature from Northeastern University, writing extensively on queer internet culture and performance art as a form of queer activism. Her work has been …

Assistant Teaching Professor, Political Science

Kayla Wolf‘s research agenda sits at the intersection of public opinion, political socialization, gender, and race and ethnic politics. Broadly focusing on political behavior, her research asks questions about how we develop our political attit…

Visiting Lecturer, World Languages and Cultures

Visiting Lecturer

Roy Gernhardt is a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Economics at Northeastern University, where he recently earned his Ph.D. in Labor and Development Economics. His teaching emphasizes clarity, accessibility, and student agency, with a focus on…

Lecturer, American Sign Language and Interpreting Education Program

Visiting Teaching Professor, English

Tarushi Sonthalia’s research focuses on the aesthetic and epistemic affordances of speculative fiction, with a particular emphasis on contemporary speculative fiction from the Caribbean and South Asia. She offers speculative fiction as a practice of …

Visiting Lecturer, Economics

Jacob Thompson is a behavioral macroeconomist with a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Oregon and dual Bachelor’s degrees in Economics and Philosophy from Kent State University. Research centers on macroeconomic modeling, with a focus o…