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Associate Professor of Philosophy and Affiliate Professor of Law

For the academic year 2021-22, Adam Omar Hosein is a Fellow-in-Residence at the Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. Prof. Hosein works mainly in moral, political, and legal philosophy, with a special interest in areas of international conc…

Assistant Teaching Professor of Philosophy

Benjamin Yelle received his Ph.D. from the University of Miami in 2014. His work focuses on issues in normative and applied ethics. In normative ethics, he is interested in the ways in which our nature as autonomous persons affects what is prudential…

Distinguished Professor of Philosophy

Before teaching at Northeastern, Branden held teaching positions at Rutgers, UC-Berkeley, San José State, and Stanford and visiting positions at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy at LMU-Munich (MCMP @ LMU) and the Institute for Logic, Lan…

Associate Professor of Philosophy and Political Science

Candice Delmas (the ‘s’ in Delmas is pronounced) is an associate professor of philosophy and political science at Northeastern University, and the associate director of the Politics, Philosophy, and Economics Program. She served as a Dwor…

Assistant Professor of Philosophy

Chad Lee-Stronach is an Assistant Professor in Information Ethics. His current research develops ethical principles relating to uncertainty, privacy, explanation, and misinformation. He received his PhD in Philosophy from the Australian National Univ…

Professor Of Philosophy and Computer Science

Don Fallis is a Professor of Philosophy and Computer Science at Northeastern University. His research interests include epistemology, philosophy of information, and philosophy of mathematics. His articles on lying and deception have appeared in the J…

Professor of Religion

Liz Bucar is a religious Ethicist who studies sexuality, gender, and religion in popular culture. She is the author of three books, including the award-winning Pious Fashion: How Muslim Women Dress (Harvard University Press, 2017). At Northeastern Bu…

Assistant Teaching Professor of Philosophy

Jacob Stump received his PhD in 2017 from the University of Toronto. He writes on issues of moral psychology in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy. His main research is on Socrates’ project, as depicted in Plato’s dialogues, of using argument t…

Associate Professor of Philosophy

John is an associate professor of philosophy whose primary areas of research include moral philosophy and applied ethics, especially the ethics of emerging technologies such as AI and synthetic biology. He teaches courses in moral philosophy, ethics …

Associate Professor of Religious Studies

Jung Lee is an associate professor of religious studies at Northeastern University. He received his B.A. from Amherst College, and his Ph.D. from Brown University in religious studies. Professor Lee teaches and publishes in the areas of religious eth…

Associate Professor of Philosophy

Kay Mathiesen is an Associate Professor with a research focus on information and computer ethics and justice. She received her Ph.D. in Philosophy from University of California, Irvine. She uses her expertise in social epistemology, ethics, social ph…

Assistant Teaching Professor of Philosophy

Katy Shorey is assistant teaching professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion. Her research focuses on criteria for evaluating the success of scientific explanations. In particular, how to articulate a general account of explanation that s…

Associate Professor of Religious Studies

M. Whitney Kelting is an associate professor of religious studies. She received her B.A from Colby College, and her MA and PhD in South Asian Language and Literature from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Professor Kelting is the author of Singin…

Associate Professor of Philosophy

Professor Smith received his PhD in 2004 from UNC Chapel Hill. He has published in political theory, moral philosophy, action theory, and jurisprudence. Currently, he is working on a project on the materiality of agency and co-authoring a book on urb…

Assistant Professor of Religion and Africana Studies

N. Fadeke Castor is a Black Feminist ethnographer and African diaspora studies scholar, with research and teaching interests on religion, race, and the intersectional politics of decolonization. Before joining Northeastern University she taught Afro-…

Professor of Philosophy and Business; Lecturer, Law and Public Policy

Patricia Illingworth is an author, philosopher, and lawyer who works on some of the most urgent social, ethical, and human rights problems that face people and their communities. Her approach is highly interdisciplinary, with a scholar’s focus on fac…

University Distinguished Professor of Law and Humanities

Patricia Williams, one of the most provocative intellectuals in American law and a pioneer of both the law and literature and critical race theory movements in American legal theory, serves as University Distinguished Professor of Law and Humanities,…

Professor of Philosophy; Chair, Department of Philosophy and Religion; Director, Ethics Institute

Ronald Sandler is a professor of philosophy, Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion, and Director of the Ethics Institute at Northeastern University. His primary areas of research are environmental ethics, ethics and emerging technologies…

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 of Philosophy; Director of Politics, Philosophy and Economics Program

Serena Parekh is an associate professor of philosophy at Northeastern University in Boston, where she is the director of the Politics, Philosophy, and Economics Program. She is the co-editor of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly. Her most recent book, No …

Associate Teaching Professor of Religion

Sheila F. Winborne is associate teaching professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion She received her Ph.D. in the study of religion from Harvard University (specialization theology and the visual arts), an MTS (concentration religion and …

Visiting Lecturer of Philosophy and Religion

Getty Lustila is a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Northeastern University. Before arriving at Northeastern, Getty served as a Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellow at Stonehill College and taught in the Clemente Course in t…

Visiting Lecturer of Philosophy

Justin Caouette’s work focuses on issues in normative and applied ethics and in metaphysics. In normative ethics, he is interested in understanding the nature of moral obligation and moral responsibility. More specifically, he’s intereste…

Visiting Lecturer of Philosophy

Mark Wells received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Bowling Green State University in 2014. Dr. Wells primarily writes on issues in applied ethics and politics. He is interested in how ethical theorizing can inform personal, organizational, and public p…

Visiting Lecturer of Religion, Program Director of Sacred Writes

Megan Goodwin is a scholar of gender, race, sexuality, politics, and American religions. She is the author of Abusing Religion: Literary Persecution, Sex Scandals, and American Minority Religions (Rutgers 2020). With Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst, she coh…

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Kevin received his PhD from Indiana University in 2019. His research looks primarily at metaethical questions about first-order normative reasoning, especially the role empirical knowledge can and cannot play therein. He also has significant research…

Part-Time Lecturer

Part-Time Lecturer

Part-Time Lecturer

Associate Director of the Ethics Institute

Dr. Matthew Kopec completed his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Wisconsin – Madison and previously has held teaching and/or research positions at The Australian National University, The Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Et…

Administrative Officer

Administrative Assistant