Faculty

Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminology and Criminal Justice

Matthew Alemu completed his PhD in the joint Sociology and Public Policy program at the University of Michigan. His research broadly examines how experiencing an absent father as a youth influences one’s life course. Specifically, his dissertat…

Professor of Sociology

Linda Blum is a qualitative sociologist whose interests include: contradictions in contemporary gender relations; disability, health, and the body; and families, work, inequality and intersectionality. She has long studied how gender ideologies in th…

Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology & Africana Studies

Layla D. Brown is an Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology & Africana Studies and affiliate faculty in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Brown’s research focuses on Pan-African, Socialist, and Feminist social movements in Venezue…

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…

Assistant Professor of Sociology and Africana Studies

Anjanette Chan Tack’s research interests include race/ethnicity, gender, immigration, urban sociology, health, and spatial analytics. Her research has won numerous national awards and has been supported by fellowships from the MacArthur Foundat…

Assistant Professor of Sociology and Health Sciences

Dr. Danielle Crookes is social epidemiologist whose research examines structural, political, and social factors that shape the health of communities of color in the US. Specifically, her research focuses on understanding how immigrant-related policie…

Associate Professor of Sociology and Health Sciences

Taylor M. Cruz is a sociologist of science, technology, and medicine. She studies the societal dimensions of data analytics and emerging technologies, including as these appear in health and biomedicine. Her scholarship on electronic health records a…

Associate Professor of Sociology

Silvia Dominguez is a versatile scholar with diverse research interests, and Integrative, creative, and collaborative approaches characterize her work. She focuses on inequalities worldwide, particularly those related to cities and municipali…

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 Cultural Anthropology and International Affairs

Jelena Golubović specializes in the anthropology of violence. Before joining Northeastern, she held a Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship at The Fletcher School of Global Affairs at Tufts University. Her award-winning work has been published in Journal o…

Teaching Professor in Anthropology

Carie Little Hersh is an Associate Teaching Professor, public anthropologist, and former lawyer. Her research focuses on religion, spirituality, healing, secularism, and knowledge production in American parachurches. Past research has included U.S. N…

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; 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 Anthropology

Doreen Lee is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Northeastern University. Trained as an interdisciplinary scholar in History, Southeast Asian Studies, and Anthropology, her work explores how cities and politics shape daily life in Indonesia. Her …

Director, Institute for Health Equity and Social Justice Research; Professor of Health Sciences and Sociology

Alisa K. Lincoln 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 Sociology (CSSH) and Health Sciences (Bouvé). Working with colleagues through…

Professor of Sociology and Criminology and Criminal Justice

Professor Ineke Haen Marshall specializes in the study of comparative criminology, minorities and crime, self-report methodology, juvenile delinquency and criminal careers. Her current research focuses on cross-national surveys of juvenile delinquenc…

Associate Professor and Director of Latinx, Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Dr. Isabel Martinez is a Latinx youth immigration scholar whose research has primarily focused on the transnational lives of unaccompanied immigrant teenagers from Mexico/Central America. She is currently developing the New York Latinx Comedy Project…

Professor of Sociology and Criminology and Criminal Justice

Ramiro Martínez, Jr. is a quantitative criminologist. Within that broad arena, his work contributes to violent crime research. His core research agenda asks how violence varies across ecological settings, and, whether violent crime and violent deaths…

Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminology and Criminal Justice

Cassie McMillan’s research applies a social networks perspective to disentangle how our connections both reproduce and challenge systems of social inequality. She is interested in developing statistical and computational methodologies that can better…

Professor of Sociology and International Affairs

Born in Tehran, Iran, Prof. Moghadam received her higher education in Canada and the US. In addition to her academic career, Prof. Moghadam has been Senior Research Fellow and Coordinator of the Research Program on Women and Development, UNU/WIDER, H…

Associate Professor of Sociology

Eileen Otis is an Associate Professor of Sociology. She is the author of the award-winning book Markets and Bodies: Women, Service Work and the Making of Inequality in China. Her research has been published in the American Sociological Review, Politi…

Assistant Professor of International Business, Strategy, and Sociology

Kunyuan Qiao is interested in understanding how history, geography, institutions, and other socioeconomic processes may affect present-day organizations. …

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

Gordana Rabrenovic’s research and publications are in the area of community studies and intergroup conflict and violence. Her current work focuses on the initiation, escalation, and persistence/de-sistance of conflict and violence in three conf…

Assistant Professor of Religion and Anthropology

Sarah Riccardi-Swartz is an assistant professor of religion and anthropology at Northeastern University. She received her B.A. and M.A. in Religious Studies from Missouri State University. She earned an M.Phil and a Ph.D. in Anthropology from New Yor…

Associate Professor of Law and Sociology

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

Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Global Asian Studies

Sasha Sabherwal (she/her) is an interdisciplinary scholar of the South Asian diaspora with research interests in critical ethnic studies, the racialization of religion, transnational gender and sexuality studies, and the intersections of caste and ra…

Assistant Teaching Professor

Dr. Santelices is a medical anthropologist whose research focuses on substance use disorders, HIV/AIDS among underserved populations in the U.S. Dr. Santelices earned her doctoral degree in anthropology and master’s degree in philosophy from the Univ…

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 Anthropology

Nina Sylvanus is a political and economic anthropologist whose work centers on capital and labor, value and aesthetics, infrastructure and technology, and, more broadly, critical transformations in the neoliberal global economy. Her regional speciali…

Professor of Sociology and International Affairs

Berna Turam, Professor of Sociology at Northeastern University, has an abiding interest in conducting research on state-society interaction, including the interplay between violent borders of security regimes and irregular border-crossers. She is the…

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

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 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 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…