Affiliated Researchers

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

Lisa Arellano is a social movement historian and digital editor. Her work facilitates relationships among archives, academic historians and social justice communities. She is the co-editor of Queer Pasts and director of Quist (a queer history app).

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 in English

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

Post Graduate Teaching Fellow

Gökçen Erkılıç is a trans-disciplinary artist, researcher, and educator. Her practice uses mapping and critical cartography as a base to explore urban geography, architecture, and spatial humanities, focusing on political ecology and spatial justice in conflicted borders and margins.

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Lazer Lab, Network Science Institute

Pranav investigates research questions in the social sciences using computational text analysis methods, situated in the understanding of language as a social phenomenon. One of his main interests is agenda-setting & framing in news and social media.

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Steven Lauterwasser is a political and cultural sociologist who studies polarization and the production of politicized knowledge. Using diverse quantitative methods, his work explores the co-constitution of identity, meaning, and political conflict.

Participatory Complex Systems Modeler (School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs)

Dean Massey is a Participatory Complex Systems Modeler at Northeastern University’s School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs. In his career as a modeler, he has worked on projects developing agent-based models of integrated land-use, hydrologi…

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Josh lown is a postdoctoral research fellow at Northeastern University’s C2C impact engine. His research largely focuses on the impacts of gentrification from a community-based lens using qualitative, geospatial, and participatory methods.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Hitanshu Pandit in an applied microeconomist. He engages with research questions that have potential to shape policy decisions especially at local level focused on labor, urban and health.

Experiential AI Postdoctoral Fellow

Sebastian is a multidisciplinary researcher, writer, and improviser interested in understanding how mathematical tools can help make sense of complex systems. His work spans from mathematical sociology to cognitive science and beyond.

Experiential AI Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Giulia Taurino is a digital humanist with a background in cultural and media studies. Her research focuses on content classification in archives, cultural implications of algorithmic technologies, and AI applications in the arts and heritage sectors.

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Lazer lab

Kai-Cheng Yang is interested in computational social science. His research aims to uncover how technologies like generative AI are used for deceptive and disruptive purposes, study how humans react to these abuses, and develop countermeasures.