Faculty

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

Daniel P. Aldrich is professor and director of the Security and Resilience Studies Program at Northeastern University. An award winning author, he has published five books, more than sixty peer reviewed articles, and written op-eds for The New York T…

Professor of Law, Public Policy, and Urban Affairs

Professor Shalanda H. Baker is a professor of law, public policy, and urban affairs at Northeastern University. Professor Baker is an affiliate faculty member in Northeastern’s Global Resilience Institute, and she teaches courses at the law sch…

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

Christopher Bosso is professor of public policy at Northeastern University. His 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…

University Distinguished Professor of Economics & Social Policy

William Dickens is University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Economics at Northeastern University. He holds a joint appointment in the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs. He is currently a non-resident senior fellow with The Broo…

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 is the Lipman Family Professor of Criminology, Law, and Public Policy at Northeastern University. He has written 18 books, including, Extreme Killing, The Will to Kill, Violence and Security on Campus, and, his newest, Randomized Respo…

Director and Teaching Professor, Human Services Program

Lori Gardinier, MSW, PhD, is the director of the Human Services Program at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts where she was also the founder and director of the Campus Center on Violence Against Women (now VISION) with funding from the …

Professor of Environmental Science and Public Policy

Brian Helmuth joined Northeastern University in January 2013 as a professor of environmental science and public policy. He holds a joint appointment between SPPUA and the Department of Marine and Environmental Sciences, based at Northeastern’s …

Professor of Management, Healthcare Systems, and Public Policy

Timothy Hoff is a professor of management, healthcare systems, and health policy with appointments of 25% in the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and 75% in the D’Amore-McKim School of Business. He is a nationally recognized organizational a…

Professor of the Practice in Public Policy and Urban Affairs

Linda Kowalcky is professor of the practice in the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, where she teaches public policy, public administration, and works with the school’s internship programs. Her career includes senior positions in government …

Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and International Affairs

Laura Kuhl is assistant professor in the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and the International Affairs Program. Her research examines climate adaptation and resilience in developing countries. Prior to Northeastern, she completed a post-doc…

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

Ted Landsmark is distinguished professor and director of the Kitty and Michael Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy in the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs in the College of Social Sciences and Humanities at Northeastern University. …

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

Emily Mann is teaching professor in the Human Services Program and a senior research associate at the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University. She received a bachelor’s degree in sociology from the State University of …

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

Alicia Sasser Modestino is an Associate Professor with appointments in the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and the Department of Economics at Northeastern University. Since 2015, Dr. Modestino has also served as the Associate Director of th…

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

Dan O’Brien is associate professor in the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northeastern University, and co-director of the Boston Area Research Initiative. His work focuses on the ways th…

Associate Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs

Dietmar Offenhuber is associate professor at Northeastern University in the fields of art and design and public policy. He holds a PhD in urban planning from MIT, masters degrees from the MIT Media Lab and TU Vienna. His research focuses on the relat…

Khaled and Olfat Juffali Director of the Social Impact Lab

Rebecca Riccio is the founder and Khaled and Olfat Juffali Director of the Social Impact Lab at Northeastern University, where she develops experiential learning models that prepare students to address complex social problems through the lenses of sy…

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…

Full-time Lecturer in Public Administration and Policy

Cristina Stanica is a Visiting Lecturer in the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs. Dr. Stanica earned a Ph.D. in Urban Affairs and Public Policy from University of Delaware, with a focus on comparative public governance. She teaches Techniques…

Director of SPPUA, Dean’s Professor of Sustainability Science & Policy, and Director of Strategic Research Collaborations, Global Resilience Institute

Jennie C. Stephens is the Director of Northeastern’s School of Public Policy & Urban Affairs and Dean’s Professor of Sustainability Science & Policy. She is also the Director for Strategic Research Collaborations at Northeastern’s Global Resi…

Director of Hybrid & Online Programs, School of Law

Dan Urman is the director of Northeastern School of Law’s Online & Hybrid Programs and holds a joint appointment with Northeastern University’s School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, where he runs the law and public policy minor. Dan ha…

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…