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Max Abrahms in an expert in international security. In addition to his positions at Northeastern University, he is a non-resident fellow at both the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and Observer Research Foundation, India’s top think tank….
Jane lectures and publishes on contemporary urban landscape and the related topics of modernism and modernization of the American landscape. Her published books include Radical Landscapes: Reinventing Outdoor Space and monographs on Kathryn…
As the Director for Innovation and Research Development at the Global Resilience Institute at Northeastern University, Dr. Philip Anderson helps lead a university-wide research enterprise to inform and advance societal resilience in the face of growi…
Professor Amílcar Antonio Barreto specializes in nationalism & ethnic politics, citizenship and race. Most of his work has focused on Puerto Rico and Latinos in the United States. His most recent books are The Politics of Language in Puerto Rico …
Peter Boynton is CEO of the George J. Kostas Research Institute for Homeland Security at Northeastern University, LLC. The institute is home for co-located industry and academic research labs working together to accelerate innovation related to resil…
Rod K. Brunson’s research informs criminal justice policy and crime control practices. Professor Brunson is also a Fellow of the American Society of Criminology. His scholarship appears in the British Journal of Criminology, Criminology, Crimin…
Professor Burnham joined the Northeastern University School of Law faculty in 2002. Her fields of expertise are civil and human rights, comparative constitutional rights, and international criminal law. She is the founder of the School of Law’s Civil…
Mai’a K. Davis Cross is the Edward W. Brooke Professor of Political Science and International Affairs in the College of Social Sciences and Humanities at Northeastern University. She researches international cooperation, especially in the areas of Eu…
Professor Daynard is at the forefront of an international movement to establish the legal responsibility of the tobacco industry for tobacco-induced death, disease and disability. He is president of the law school’s Public Health Advocacy Institute, …
Professor Dyal-Chand’s research and teaching focus on property law, poverty, economic development and consumer law. Her recent projects have examined the role of property remedies in achieving more equal distribution. Her article, “Human Worth as Col…
Ryan Ellis’ research and teaching focuses on topics related to communication law and policy, infrastructure politics, and cybersecurity. He is the author of Letters, Power Lines, and Other Dangerous Things: The Politics of Infrastructure Securi…
Daniel Faber is a Professor of Sociology at Northeastern University, and an Affiliated Faculty Member in the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, as well as Environmental Studies. He is Director of the Northeastern Environmental Justice Resear…
David Fannon is an architect and building scientist whose work integrates research, analysis, and design to provide occupant comfort and wellbeing in long-lasting, low-resource consuming buildings. David has held positions at international enginee…
Professor Flynn is recognized as one of the world’s leading experts on critical infrastructure and supply chain resilience. He has led teams in conducting post-disaster resilience assessments, with support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the U.S…
Auroop Ganguly is a civil and environmental engineer who works at the intersection of three broad areas: (1) Climate Extremes and Water Sustainability, (2) Infrastructural Resilience and Homeland Security, and (3) Artificial Intelligence and Nonlinea…
Prof. Grabowski’s research interests span issues in ecology, fisheries and conservation biology, and ecological economics. Prof. Grabowski’s lab has used a variety of estuarine (oyster reef, seagrass, salt marsh, mud bottom) and marine (kelp bed, co…
Dr. Joseph joined the Northeastern faculty in 2018 after serving as Assistant Professor of Sociology at Stony Brook University from 2013-2018. Prior to that, she was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Scholar at Harvard University. Her re…
Daniel Kim’s research broadly encompasses the social and economic determinants of population health. Professor Kim currently serves as Principal Investigator of a R01 grant on the social determinants of cardiovascular diseases, funded by the Na…
Prior to coming to Northeastern, Kristian was a research scientist and the Real Time City Group Lead at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Senseable City Lab as part of which he established the lab’s research unit in Singapore. There, he an…
Michelle Laboy is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at Northeastern University, with an affiliate appointment in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering. As a designer with degrees in architecture, engineering and urban planning…
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…
Tim Love is the founding principal of Utile, a 50-person Boston-based architecture and planning firm. Love’s primary focus is the relationship between individual works of architecture and the larger city. His work is not driven by aesthetics, but by…
Much of Professor Madison’s work evaluates the implications of health care quality reporting and related trends for patients, providers and regulators. In Regulating Health Care Quality in an Information Age, Professor Madison argues that the health …
Daniel Medwed’s research interests and pro bono activities revolve primarily around the topic of wrongful convictions. Professor Medwed is an official legal analyst for WGBH News, Boston’s local NPR and PBS affiliate. …
Ángel David Nieves is Professor of Africana Studies, History, Digital Humanities, and English, and Director of Public Humanities at Northeastern University. Formerly, he was Professor of History and Digital Humanities at San Diego State University (S…
Matthew C. Nisbet, PhD, is editor-in-chief of the journal Environmental Communication; a senior editor at ORE Climate Science; and a consulting communication researcher to the AAAS Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion. Nisbet studies the role of…
Muhammad Noor E Alam is the director of Decision Analytics Lab at Northeastern University. Dr. Alam is also a faculty associate at Centre for Health Policy and Healthcare Research and an affiliated faculty both at Global Resilience Institute, and Sch…
Panford was a Carnegie – University of Ghana Visiting Scholar from June to September, 2016. Prior to that, he was awarded a Fulbright as a Senior Visiting Scholar to Ghana in 2011-2012. Since 2009, Panford’s research and publications have been on Gha…
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 …
Professor Parmet, a leading expert on health, disability and public health law, directs the law school’s Center for Health Policy and Law as well as its JD/MPH programs. In addition, she is co-editor of the law school’s SSRN online publications, Huma…
John Portz teaches and conducts research in the general areas of state and local politics, public policy, and public education. His specific research interests include school politics, accountability, and governance, as well as public leadership. H…
David A. Rochefort’s visiting appointments have included research and/or teaching positions at the University of Montreal, University of Toronto, Brown University, and Smith College. He also completed an NIMH postdoctoral fellowship in the Rutg…
Laura Senier is assistant professor in sociology and anthropology and health sciences. Her research interests include the sociology of medicine and public health, community environmental health, and environmental justice. She is principal investigato…
Mary Steffel studies consumer judgment and decision-making. Her research examines when consumers call upon others to help them make decisions, how consumers navigate making decisions for others, and how businesses and governments can support consumer…
Professor Tolley’s research interests are at the intersection of law and politics. In recent years, he has written on courts in Europe, including the Court of Justice of the European Union and the European Court of Human Rights. …
Before joining Northeastern University, Bob Triest was a vice president and economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, where he led the Macroeconomic Applications and Policy Studies group and served as Director of the New England Public Policy …
Ryan Qi Wang is an associate research director on social media of the Boston Area Research Initiative (BARI) and studies the interplay between urban informatics and urban, infrastructure, and social resilience. His research focuses on two interrelate…
Liza Weinstein researches and teaches on cities and globalization, urban political economy, and the politics of informality with a regional focus on India. Her work has appeared in Politics & Society, International Journal of Urban and Regional R…
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…
