Urban Planning & Policy Faculty

School of Public Policy & Urban Affairs Faculty

Christopher Bosso

Professor of Public Policy

Christopher Bosso’s current areas of research and teaching interest are in food and environmental policy. His newest books are Framing the Farm Bill: Interests, Ideology, and the Agricultural Act of 2014 (University of Kansas Press, 2017) and, as edi…
Joan Fitzgerald

Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs

Joan Fitzgerald is a Professor of Urban and Public Policy. She focuses on urban climate action and strategies for linking it to equity, economic development, and innovation. In her fourth book, Greenovation: Urban Leadership on Climate Change (Oxford…
Linda Kowalcky

Professor of the Practice in Public Policy and Urban Affairs; Associate Director, School of 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…
Theodore C. Landsmark

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

Ted Landsmark has been a civic planner, civil rights and equity advocate, higher education administrator, arts and culture researcher, and community-engaged social activist in Boston and nationally. He serves on the leadership committee of the Northe…
Cara Michell

Assistant Professor of Race and Social Justice in the Built Environment

Cara Michell is an urban planner with a background in sculpture from Princeton University. Cara holds a Masters in Urban Planning from Harvard University. She was a Senior Urban Planner and Associate at WXY Studio in New York. Cara’s conceptual art h…
Alicia Sasser Modestino

Associate Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Economics; Research 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, where she also serves as the Research Director of the Dukakis Center for …
Kaitlyn Alvarez Noli

Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Health Sciences

Dr. Kaitlyn S. Alvarez Noli, Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Health Sciences, holds a joint appointment in the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs (College of Social Sciences and Humanities) and the Department of Health Sciences (Bouvé…
Daniel T. O’Brien

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…
Gavin Shatkin

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…
Lily Song

Assistant Professor of Race, Social Justice, and the Built Environment

Lily Song is an Assistant Professor of Race and Social Justice in the Built Environment at Northeastern University. She holds a PhD in Urban and Regional Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA in Urban and Regional Planning from …
Jennie C. Stephens

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, …
Thomas J. Vicino

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…
Moira Zellner

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…

Master of Science Urban Planning and Policy

School of Public Policy & Urban Affairs Faculty

Christopher Bosso

Professor of Public Policy

Joan Fitzgerald

Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs

Linda Kowalcky

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

Theodore C. Landsmark

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

Cara Michell

Assistant Professor of Race and Social Justice in the Built Environment

Alicia Sasser Modestino

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

Kaitlyn Alvarez Noli

Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Health Sciences

Daniel T. O’Brien

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

Gavin Shatkin

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

Lily Song

Assistant Professor of Race, Social Justice, and the Built Environment

Jennie C. Stephens

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

Thomas J. Vicino

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

Moira Zellner

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

College of Arts, Media & Design Faculty

Tim Love

Associate Professor of Architecture

Dietmar Offenhuber

Associate Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Art + Design

Michelle Laboy

Associate Professor

Sara Jensen Carr

Assistant Professor

Nicholas Brown

Associate Teaching Professor, Program Coordinator of Urban Landscape

Dan Adams

Associate Professor, School Director

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