Faculty and Staff

Distinguished Professor of English; Co-Director, NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks

Elizabeth Maddock Dillon teaches courses in the fields of early American literature, Atlantic theatre and performance, and transatlantic print culture. She is the author of New World Drama: The Performative Commons in the Atlantic World, 1649-1849 (D…

University Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Computer Sciences, Co-Director of NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks

David Lazer is a University Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Computer Sciences, Northeastern University, and Co-Director, NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks. Prior to coming to Northeastern University, he was on the faculty at the Ha…

Assistant Director, NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks & Women Writers Project

Sarah Connell is the Assistant Director of the Women Writers Project and the NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks at Northeastern University. Her research focuses on text encoding and computational text analysis, medieval and early modern literature a…

Director of Africana Studies Program; Associate Professor of English and Africana Studies

Professor Nicole N. Aljoe’s fields of specialization are eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Black Atlantic Literature, the Slave Narrative, Postcolonial Studies, and eighteenth-century British Novel. Professor Aljoe’s recent publications includ…

Senior Lecturer in Modern History, New College of the Humanities, London

Olly Ayers is a Senior Lecturer in Modern History and Director of Curriculum Development at New College of the Humanities, part of Northeastern’s global network in London. He studied at the universities of Manchester and Kent in the UK and his research focuses on the connections between race and urban space.

Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Moya Bailey is a scholar of critical race, feminist, and disability studies. Her work focuses on marginalized groups’ use of digital media to promote social justice as acts of self-affirmation and health promotion. She is interested in how race, gend…

Assistant Professor of Political Science

Nick Beauchamp is a core faculty member of the Network Science Institute and the NULab for Text, Maps and Networks. His research uses techniques from natural language processing, machine learning, Bayesian statistics, and network analysis to examine …

Assistant Professor, Art + Design and Journalism, College of Arts, Media and Design

Rahul Bhargava is an educator, researcher, designer, and facilitator who works on data storytelling and technology design in support of social justice and community empowerment.

Assistant Professor in the Khoury College

Michelle Borkin is an Assistant Professor in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University on the Boston Campus. She is also Co-Lead of the Visualization @ Khoury Lab, Co-Director and Co-Founder of the Northeastern Visualization …

Professor of the Practice, Journalism, College of Arts, Media and Design

Matthew Carroll is a Professor of the Practice in Journalism. Previously he ran the Knight Foundation-funded Future of News initiative at the MIT Media Lab; before that, he worked for 26 years at the Boston Globe, specializing in data storytelling.

Assistant Professor of Architecture and Urban Design

Jay Cephas studies the effects of large socio-economic forces on cities and how technology and labor practices interface with the totalizing effects of architecture. Jay analyzes both ordinary and critical spatial practices to recover the latent and …

Assistant Professor, Journalism, College of Arts, Media and Design

Myojung Chung is an assistant professor of journalism and media advocacy at Northeastern University. She focuses on how the emergence of new media has changed journalism and strategic communication.

Dean of Libraries; Vice Provost for Information Collaboration; Professor of History

Dan Cohen is the Vice Provost for Information Collaboration, Dean of the Libraries, and professor of history at Northeastern University. His work has focused on the impact of digital media and technology on all aspects of knowledge and learning, from…

Associate Professor of English; Graduate Program Director

Ryan Cordell is an Associate Professor of English at Northeastern University and a Core Founding Faculty Member in the NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks. His scholarship seeks to illuminate how technologies of production, reception, circulation, an…

Assistant Professor, Art and Design, College of Arts, Media and Design

Pedro Cruz explores new metaphoric and figurative ways to visualize information. Pedro was an Invited Assistant Professor for 5 years at the University of Coimbra and was a researcher at the Computational Design and Visualization Lab/CDV.

Assistant Professor, Khoury College of Computer Sciences

Cody Dunne works at the intersection of information visualization, network science, human-computer interaction, and computer science. He is currently researching ways to improve the readability of network visualizations.

Professor of the Practice in English; Director, Digital Scholarship Group

Julia Flanders is a professor of the practice in English and the director of the Digital Scholarship Group in the Northeastern University Library. She also directs the Women Writers Project and serves as editor in chief of Digital Humanities Quarterl…

Assistant Professor, Communication Studies, College of Arts, Media and Design; and Political Science, College of Social Sciences and Humanities

Katherine Haenschen researches the intersection of digital media and politics. Her research utilizes experiments to measure the effect of digital communications on voter turnout. She previously spent eight years managing political campaigns in Texas.

Faculty Affiliate in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Assistant Professor of Journalism

Meg Heckman is a journalist, author and educator focused on building a news ecosystem that is robust, diverse and equipped to serve all segments of society. She is an assistant professor of journalism and a faculty affiliate of the NULab for Texts, M…

Assistant Professor of Economics

Donghee Jo is an assistant professor of economics, and affiliated faculty member of the Network Science Institute. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He specializes in political economy and development econ…

Associate Professor of Media Arts

Sarah Kanouse is an interdisciplinary artist and writer examining the politics of landscape and public space. Her research-based creative projects trace the production of landscape through ecological, historical, and legal forces, particularly focusi…

Assistant Professor, Architecture, College of Arts, Media and Design

Ang Li maintains a collaborative design practice that works through material experiments and built interventions to explore the role of reference and reuse in contemporary architectural production in addition to her teaching.

Assistant Professor of History

Jessica C. Linker is a historian of early America and digital scholar. She is working on a book project that examines how women practiced science in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the various social and cultural trends that contemporane…

Part-Time Lecturer, Department of History

Jim McGrath’s research focuses on best practices in digital public humanities, with an emphasis on community archives and digital storytelling. He was Project Co-Director of the award-winning project Our Marathon: The Boston Bombing Digital Archive.

Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminology and Criminal Justice

Cassie McMillan’s research applies a social networks perspective to disentangle how our connections both reproduce and challenge systems of social inequality. She is interested in developing statistical and computational methodologies that can better…

Professor and the Associate Dean of Faculty in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences

Mislove’s primary field of interest concerns distributed systems and networks, with a focus on using social networks to enhance the security, privacy, and efficiency of newly emerging systems. He is a core faculty member of the Cybersecurity and Priv…

Associate Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Economics; Director of Research, Dukakis Center

Dr. Alicia Sasser Modestino’s current research focuses on labor and health economics including changing skill requirements, youth development, healthcare, housing, and migration. Her work has been funded by the William T. Grant Foundation, the Russel…

Clinical Instructor, Khoury College of Computer Sciences

Felix Muzny focuses on student learning, curriculum development, interdisciplinary computing education, and computational literary analysis. They have created and developed undergraduate and faculty-level pedagogy development programs.

Assistant Professor of Sociology

I use computational tools, principally automated text analysis, to study social movements, culture, gender, institutions, and organizations. I have a particular interest in applying these tools with a qualitative lens, and to better understand inters…

Professor of Africana Studies, History, and Digital Humanities; Director of Public Humanities

Ángel David Nieves is the author and co-editor of two historical monographs, including An Architecture of Education: African American Women Design the New South (University of Rochester Press, 2018) and ‘We Shall Independent Be:’ African American Pla…

Associate Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Criminology and Criminal Justice; Director, Boston Area Research Initiative

Dan O’Brien’s work focuses on the ways that researchers, policymakers, and practitioners can work together to leverage modern digital data (i.e., “Big Data”) to better understand and serve cities. He also focuses on the behavioral and social dy…

Associate Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Art + Design

Dietmar Offenhuber’s research focuses on the relationship between design, technology, and governance. Dietmar is the author of the award-winning monograph Waste is Information (MIT Press), works as an advisor to the United Nations and published…

Associate Professor of History

Chris Parsons is an interdisciplinary historian of science, medicine, and the environment in early modern Atlantic World. His current research traces the devastating spread of smallpox and other European illnesses in the northeast (New France, New En…

Professor at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences

Tina Eliassi-Rad is a professor of computer science at Northeastern University. She is also a core faculty member at Northeastern University’s Network Science Institute. Prior to joining Northeastern, she was an associate professor of computer scienc…

Associate Professor of English and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies

K.J. Rawson works at the intersections of the Digital Humanities and Rhetoric, LGBTQ+, and Feminist Studies. Focusing on archives as key sites of cultural power, he studies the rhetorical work of queer and transgender archival collections in both bri…

Associate Professor, Information Systems and Network Science

Christoph Riedl holds a joint appointment with the Khoury College of Computer Sciences and is a Network Science Institute faculty member. His focus includes understanding how social and economic networks shape collaboration and decision-making.

Associate Professor of Philosophy; Ronald L. and Linda A. Rossetti Professor for the Humanities

Rory Smead is associate professor of philosophy and the Ronald L. and Linda A. Rossetti Professor for the Humanities at Northeastern University. He received his BA from the University of Minnesota Duluth, his MA from the University of California, and…

Associate Professor, Khoury College of Computer Sciences

David Smith is a founding member of the NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks, Northeastern University’s center for the digital humanities and computational social sciences. He also worked for Tufts’ Perseus Digital Library Project.

Associate Professor of Communication Studies and Affiliated Faculty of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Combining the methods of computational social science and network science with the theories of communication studies, Foucault Welles studies how online communication networks enable and constrain behavior, with particular emphasis on how these netwo…

Assistant Professor of Journalism and Media Innovation

John Wihbey is the author of The Social Fact: News and Knowledge in a Networked World (MIT Press, 2019). An affiliate of the Northeastern School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and the Ethics Institute, he is also faculty co-director of Northeast…

Associate Professor and Director of the BS in Cybersecurity Program

Wilson’s research lies at the intersection of Big Data, security, and privacy; while drawing on methods from the computer, social, political, and economic sciences. He is a 2019 Sloan Fellow and a 2019-2020 Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Inte…