Core Faculty

Professor of Political Science, Public Policy and Urban Affairs; Director, Security and Resilience Studies Program

An award winning author, Daniel Aldrich has published five books, more than sixty peer reviewed articles, and written op-eds for The New York Times, CNN, Asahi Shinbun, along with appearing on popular media outlets such as CNBC, MSNBC, NPR, and HuffP…

Professor of Law, Public Policy, and Urban Affairs

Professor Baker is an affiliate faculty member in Northeastern’s Global Resilience Institute, and she teaches courses at the law school and in the College of Social Sciences and Humanities. Baker was awarded a 2016-17 Fulbright-García Robles gr…

Professor of Public Policy; Associate Director, School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs

Christopher Bosso’s areas of interest include food and environmental policy, science and technology policy, and the governance of emerging technologies. His newest books are Framing the Farm Bill: Interests, Ideology, and the Agricultural Act o…

University Distinguished Professor of Economics and Public Policy

William Dickens holds a joint appointment in the Department of Economics and the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs. He is currently a non-resident senior fellow with The Brookings Institution and a visiting scholar with the Federal Reserve Ba…

Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs

Joan Fitzgerald is a Professor of Urban and Public Policy at Northeastern University. She focuses on urban climate action and strategies for linking it to equity, economic development, and innovation. In her fourth book, Greenovation: Urban Leadershi…

Lipman Family Professor of Criminology, Law, and Public Policy

James Alan Fox has published 18 books, dozens of journal and magazine articles, and hundreds of freelance columns in newspapers around the country, primarily in the areas of multiple murder, youth crime, school and campus violence, workplace violence…

Director and Teaching Professor of Human Services; Senior Research Associate, Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy

Lori Gardinier has practiced in the area of antipoverty/social justice work in community-based settings and as a counselor in organizations addressing intimate partner violence. In her role at Northeastern, she is a leader in experiential education p…

Professor of Environmental Science and Public Policy

Brian Helmuth holds a joint appointment between the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and the Department of Marine and Environmental Sciences, based at Northeastern’s Marine Science Center in Nahant. His research and teaching focus on p…

Professor of Management, Healthcare Systems and Public Policy

Timothy Hoff, Ph.D. is a Professor of Management, Healthcare Systems, and Health Policy in the D’Amore-McKim School of Business and School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Northeastern University, in Boston, Massachusetts. He is a Visiting Associa…

Professor of the Practice in Public Policy and Urban Affairs

Linda Kowalcky teaches public policy, public administration, and works with the school’s internship programs. Her career includes senior positions in government as well as academia. Most recently, Linda served as liaison to higher education to former…

Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and International Affairs

Laura Kuhl’s research examines climate adaptation and resilience in developing countries. Prior to Northeastern, she completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the Climate Policy Lab at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University….

Distinguished Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs; Director, Kitty and Michael Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy

As Mayor Martin J. Walsh’s first appointment to the Boston Planning and Development Agency’s Board of Directors, Ted Landsmark has brought to the board a wealth of expertise in architecture, urban design, civic leadership, architectural and con…

Teaching Professor of Human Services

Matt Lee has taught courses in counseling theory and practice, cross-cultural psychology, ethnic identity and conflict (in Romania, Germany, Poland, and Croatia), intro to psychology, lifespan development, developmental psychology, race and empowerme…

Teaching Professor of Human Services; Senior Research Associate, Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy

Emily Mann’s teaching focuses on child and adolescent development, social research methods, social policy, and prevention science. Dr. Mann spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow in the Clinical Research Training Program (CRTP) at the Harvard…

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…

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…

Khaled and Olfat Juffali Director of the Social Impact Lab; Lecturer of Human Services

Rebecca Riccio’s teaching and research centers the use of experiential learning to cultivate systems thinking, ethical reasoning, and self-authorship among students who aspire to engage in social change. Her teaching models were featured in Ash…

Director, MS in Urban Planning and Policy & MA, International Affairs; Professor of Public Policy & Architecture

Professor Shatkin has a joint appointment in the School of Public Policy & Urban Affairs (75%) and the School of Architecture (25%). His research focuses primarily on globalization and urban poverty in Southeast Asian cities. His most recent book…

Assistant Teaching Professor of Public Policy and Administration

Cristina Stanica is an Assistant Teaching Professor of Public Policy and Administration. Most of her teaching is in critical core courses that support the MPA and MPP programs, in particular Techniques of Policy Analysis and Principles of Public Admi…

Director of the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs; Dean’s Professor of Sustainability Science & Policy; Director of Strategic Research Collaborations, Global Resilience Institute

Jennie C. Stephens’ research, teaching, and community engagement focus on social-political aspects of renewable energy transformation, energy democracy, climate resilience, reducing fossil-fuel reliance, gender diversity in energy and climate, …

Director of Hybrid and Online Programs in the School of Law; Director of the Law and Public Policy Minor

Dan Urman runs the Law & Public Policy Minor at the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Hybrid & Online Programs at Northeastern University School of Law. He has taught at Northeastern since 2009. Dan has run various university prog…

Associate Dean of Graduate Studies; Professor of Political Science, Public Policy and Urban Affairs

Professor Thomas J. Vicino is the Associate Dean of Graduate Studies in the College of Social Sciences and Humanities. He is appointed as Professor in the Department of Political Science and holds a joint appointment in the School of Public Policy an…

Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs; Director of Participatory Modeling and Data Science

Moira Zellner’s academic background lies at the intersection of Urban and Regional Planning, Environmental Science, and Complexity. She has served as Principal Investigator and Co-Investigator in interdisciplinary projects examining how specifi…