Faculty

Professor of Sociology

Linda Blum is a qualitative, ethnographic sociologist who studies persistence, change, and contradictions in contemporary gender relations. Her interests include: Gender, Medicine, and the Body; Work, Family, and Intersections of Gender, Race, and Cl…

University Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Health Sciences; Director, Social Science Environmental Health Research Institute

Phil Brown joined Northeastern University in 2012 after 32 years at Brown University. He is University Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Health Sciences, and director of the Social Science Environmental Health Research Institute (SSEHRI), whic…

Associate Professor of Sociology

Dr. Silvia Domínguez, PhD, MSW, specializes in the welfare of women, children and minority populations in the United States and abroad, with additional emphasis on sexual and gender-based violence, race relations and immigration issues. She serves as…

Professor of Sociology, Director of the Northeastern Environmental Justice Research Collaborative

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…

Assistant Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs

Zoltán Glück is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs at Northeastern University. His research focuses on issues of security, development, cities, capitalism and activism in East Africa. His current book project, “Recolo…

Professor of Health Sciences and Sociology

Sharon Harlan is a professor with joint appointments in the Department of Health Sciences and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. Her research explores the human impacts of climate change that are dependent upon people’s positions in social…

Associate Teaching Professor in Anthropology

Professor of Sociology

Matthew O. Hunt is a professor of sociology at Northeastern University. His primary research interests involve intersections of race/ethnicity, social psychology, and inequality in the United States. His work has appeared in the American Sociological…

Associate Professor of Sociology and International Affairs 

Tiffany Joseph is an associate professor of Sociology and International Affairs at Northeastern University. After receiving her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Michigan in 2011, she was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Scholar…

Associate Professor of Sociology

Maureen Kelleher is an associate professor of sociology. Her teaching areas include social deviance, drugs, social policy and child welfare. She has worked closely with the American Sociological Association on a number of teaching related projects in…

Professor of Anthropology

Professor Klein has spent his career examining the intersection of culture, politics and sport. His research has taken him to study baseball in the Dominican Republic, Mexico and other far flung sites; bodybuilders in southern California; and Lakota …

Professor of Sociology

Thomas Koenig has been a faculty member at Northeastern University since 1977, serving as chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology from 2002 until 2008. In 2008-2009 he was a Fulbright scholar at the University of Belgrade (Serbia) Law S…

Associate Professor of Anthropology

Doreen Lee is associate professor of anthropology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. Lee writes, researches, and teaches about urban politics, Southeast Asia, and critical theory. She received her undergraduate degree in archaeology fro…

Associate Dean of Research; Director, Institute of Urban Health Research and Practice; Professor of Health Sciences and Sociology

Alisa K. Lincoln, Associate Dean of Research in the College of Social Sciences and Humanities, is Director of the Institute for Health Equity and Social Justice Research (formerly the IUHR) in the Bouvé College of Health Sciences. She is Professor of…

Professor of Sociology and Criminology and Criminal Justice

Ineke Haen Marshall has earned degrees from Tilburg University (the Netherlands), the College of William and Mary (USA), and Bowling Green State University (USA). She has been a professor at Youngstown State University (1977-1980), the University of …

Professor of Sociology and Criminology and Criminal Justice

Ramiro Martínez, Jr. is a professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. Professor Martinez is a quantitative criminologist. Within that broad arena, his work contributes to violent crime…

Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminology and Criminal Justice

Cassie McMillan is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and School of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Her work applies a social networks perspective to disentangle how our connections both reproduce and challenge s…

Professor of Sociology and International Affairs

Professor Moghadam came to Northeastern University in January 2012 from Purdue University, where she directed the Women’s Studies Program. Born in Tehran, Iran, Dr. Moghadam received her higher education in Canada and the U.S. In addition to her acad…

Assistant Professor of Sociology

I’m an assistant professor of sociology at Northeastern University. I am also core faculty at the NULab for Text, Maps, and Networks, I’m a Faculty Affiliate at the Network Science Institute, I’m on the Executive Committee of the Wo…

Associate Professor of Sociology; Director of the Brudnick Center on Violence and Conflict

Gordana Rabrenovic is an associate professor of sociology and the director of the Brudnick Center on Violence and Conflict at Northeastern University. Her research and publications are in the area of community studies and intergroup conflict and viol…

Associate Professor of Law and Sociology

Professor Robinson teaches courses focusing on the way technology influences the law and plays a key role in the law school’s Center for Law, Innovation and Creativity (CLIC). Her current research concerns the interaction between technological change…

Associate Professor of Sociology and Health Sciences

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…

Associate Professor of Anthropology

Nina Sylvanus is associate professor of anthropology at Northeastern University. She received her doctoral training in anthropology and African Studies from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris and taught in the anthropology depa…

Director of International Affairs Program; Professor of Sociology and International Affairs

Berna Turam, the director of the International Affairs Program, is a professor of sociology at Northeastern University. She has an abiding interest in conducting research on state-society interaction, particularly on the interaction between ordinary …

Professor of Sociology

Professor of Sociology; Professor and Director, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program

Dr. Suzanna Danuta Walters’ work centers on questions of gender, feminist theory and politics, sexuality, and popular culture and she is a frequent commentator on these issues for the media. Her most recent book, The Tolerance Trap: How God, Genes, a…

Department Chair; Associate Professor of Sociology

Liza Weinstein is Chair of the Sociology and Anthropology Department and an associate professor of sociology. Her research and teaching interests focus on cities and globalization, urban political economy, the politics of informality, and state-civil…

Associate Professor Sociology and Health Science

Sara Wylie is assistant professor at Northeastern University with a joint appointment in sociology/anthropology and health sciences, where she is a member of the Social Science Environmental Health Research Institute. Wylie seeks to develop new modes…

Professor of Sociology

Kathrin Zippel has published on gender politics in the workplace, public and social policy, social movements, welfare states, and globalization in the United States and Europe. Her book The Politics of Sexual Harassment in the United States, the Euro…