Affiliated Faculty

Associate Professor of Political Science

Max Abrahms is an expert in international security, especially in the areas of terrorism, U.S. foreign policy, great power competition, war, and the international relations of the Middle East. He has held fellowships and other research positions with…

Professor of Landscape Architecture and Director of the Urban Landscape Program

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…

Director for Innovation and Research Development

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 & Chair, Cultures, Societies, and Global Studies; Professor & Interim Director, International Affairs; Professor, Political Science; Affiliated faculty member of Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies; Affiliated faculty member in the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs

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 …

Russell B. and Andree B. Stearns Trustee Professor Emeritus of Political Economy; Founding Director of the Dukakis Center; Founding Dean of the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs

Barry Bluestone is the Russell B. and Andrée B. Stearns Trustee Professor Emeritus of Political Economy in the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. He served as the founding director of the Du…

Affiliate Professor of the Practice in the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs

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…

Professor of Law

University Distinguished Professor of Law and Affiliate Professor of Africana Studies

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…

Associate Professor Emeritus of Economics and Public Policy

Alan Clayton-Matthews was a professor and director of quantitative methods in the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs. He spent his 2007 sabbatical leave at the Dukakis Center. At the Center, he was the chief designer of the Labor Market Assess…

Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs; Director of the Center for International Affairs and World Cultures; Dean’s Professor of Political Science, International Affairs, and Diplomacy

Mai’a K. Davis Cross is the Dean’s Professor of Political Science, International Affairs, and Diplomacy and Director of the Center for International Affairs & World Cultures at Northeastern University. She is also a Member of the Council on Forei…

University Distinguished Professor of Law

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 of Law

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…

Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Director, Master of Public Policy Program; Director, MS in Engineering and Public Policy

Assistant Professor of Communication Studies

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…

Professor of Sociology

Daniel Faber is a Professor of Sociology at Northeastern University, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Global Center for Climate Justice. He is also the Co-Editor in Chief of the journal Capitalism, Nature, Socialism. His research is focused in the…

Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Architecture

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 of Political Science; Founding Director, Global Resilience Institute

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…

Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Affiliate Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs

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…

Associate Professor of Marine and Environmental Science

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…

Associate Professor, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Budget & Operations Specialist (Sociology and Anthropology)

Aakash Sharma is a finance and technology enthusiast, currently serving as the Budget and Operations Specialist for the Sociology and Anthropology Department. He has a strong educational background and diverse professional experience. Aakash earned a…

Associate Professor of Sociology and International Affairs; Graduate Program Director, Sociology

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…

Associate Professor of Health Sciences and Social Epidemiology

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…

Associate Professor in the Department of Art + Design and the School of Architecture

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…

Associate Professor

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…

University Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Computer Sciences

David Lazer is a University Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Computer Sciences, Northeastern University, and Co-Director, NULab for Digital Humanities and Computational Social Science. Prior to coming to Northeastern University, he wa…

Associate Professor of Architecture

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…

Professor of Law and Health Sciences

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 …

University Distinguished Professor of Law and Criminal Justice

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. …

Professor of Communication; Affiliate faculty in the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs

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…

Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

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…

Director of the John D. O’Bryant African American Institute; Research Associate of the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy; Advisory Board Member, Humanities Center

Emeritus Associate Professor of Cultures, Societies and Global Studies

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…

Distinguished Professor of Philosophy; Chair, Department of Philosophy and Religion

Serena Parekh is a Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion. She co-edits the journal, Feminist Philosophy Quarterly. She is the author of three books, including her most recent book, No Refuge: Ethics and the Gl…

George J. and Kathleen Waters Matthews Distinguished University Professor of Law; Affiliate in the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs

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…

Assistant Professor of Political Science and Psychology

Briony Swire-Thompson is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and Psychology. She is the director of the Psychology of Misinformation Lab and faculty at the Network Science Institute. Her research investigates why people believe in misinformat…

Associate Professor of Sociology and Health Sciences; Undergraduate Program Director, Sociology and Anthropology

Laura Senier’s research interests include the sociology of medicine and public health, community environmental health, and environmental justice. Her research identifies political, social, and economic barriers in research translation, or the effort …

Associate Professor of Marketing; Joseph G. Riesman Research Professor

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…

Associate Professor of Political Science

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. …

Professor of Economics

Robert Triest served as Chair of the Department of Economics from 2018 to 2024. Before joining Northeastern University, he was a vice president and economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, where he led the Macroeconomic Applications and Polic…

Professor of Sociology and International Affairs

Berna Turam, Professor of Sociology at Northeastern University, is a political sociologist and an ethnographer. Turam has an abiding interest in conducting research on state-society interaction, particularly on the interaction between ordinary Muslim…

Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

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…

Department Chair; Associate Professor of Sociology

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…

Associate Professor of Media Innovation & Technology; Affiliate Faculty, Global Resilience Institute and NULab for Digital Humanities and Computational Social Science

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