Teaching Award Winners Archive

Assistant Professor of History

Jessica C. Linker is a historian of early America and digital scholar. She is working on a book project that examines how women practiced science in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the various social and cultural trends that contemporane…

Associate Teaching Professor of History and International Affairs

Winner of the CSSH Outstanding Teaching Award (2025). Before coming to Northeastern, he taught at Colgate, Loyola Marymount, and Tufts, as well as at Vanderbilt, where he held a postdoctoral fellowship from 2012 to 2014. Dr. Cross’s broad range of re…

Teaching Professor of German and English; Academic Coordinator of the German Program; Coordinator of Online Teaching and Learning, CSSH

Carolin Fuchs’ research interests lie at the intersection of technology and language education, with a focus on virtual exchanges (telecollaboration), learner autonomy, online teaching, and task design. She has taught at City University of Hong…

Criminology and Justice Policy, PhD

Ayanna Miller is a doctoral student at the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northeastern University, originally from Brooklyn, New York. Ayanna’s research interests include racial justice, policing, police-community relationships, commun…

Dean’s Professor of Resilience, Director, MS Resilience Studies Program

An award winning author, Aldrich has published five books including Building Resilience and Black Wave, more than 115 peer-reviewed articles, and written op-eds for the New York Times, CNN, HuffPost, and many other media outlets. He has spent more th…

Lecturer in Chinese

Teaching Professor of English and Director of the Writing Center (former)

Criminology and Justice Policy, PhD

Sarah Lockwood is a doctoral candidate at Northeastern University. Sarah holds a B.A in Psychology and B.S in Criminology from the University of South Florida, and received her Master’s degree in Criminology and Criminal Justice from Northeastern. He…

Teaching Professor in English

Emily Avery-Miller’s experience and areas of interest include: first-year writing, service-learning and civic engagement, and interdisciplinary writing and research. Her essays and short fiction have earned honorable mentions from New Millenniu…

PhD Candidate in Political Science

Austin Barraza is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science at Northeastern University, specializing in American Politics and Public Policy. He has a strong background and interest in higher education policy. Austin has served as a …

Assistant Teaching Professor, English

Abbie DeCamp specializes in memes and internet culture, digital writing, queer theory and visual culture. …

Visiting Lecturer, Philosophy and Religion

Lisa McLeod’s areas of interest include philosophy of race, critical race and gender theory, carceral studies, and health care ethics. She holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Stanford University and a J.D. from UCLA School of Law. Prior to teachin…

Professor of Economics

Silvia Prina is a development economist interested in understanding the behavior of poor households for the purpose of uncovering potential strategies to improve their lives. Her first set of papers investigates how financial access, particularly via…

Assistant Professor of English; Coordinator of Multilingual Writing

Dr. Qianqian Zhang-Wu’s research focuses on multilingual writing, translingualism and raciolinguistic ideologies. Her work appears in high-impact, peer-reviewed journals, such as TESOL Quarterly, Written Communication, Research in the Teaching of Eng…

Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs

Outstanding Teaching Award: Tenured/Tenure-track

Assistant Teaching Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religion

Outstanding Teaching Award: Full-time Teaching Professor

PhD Doctoral Candidate, Department of English

Outstanding Teaching Award: Graduate Student

Part-time Lecturer, Department of English

Outstanding Teaching Award: Part-time

Department of Philosophy and Political Science

Outstanding Teaching Award: Tenured/Tenure-Track

Department of Economics

Outstanding Teaching Award: Tenured/Tenure-Track

Department of English

Outstanding Teaching Award: Full-Time Non-Tenure-Track

Department of Political Science

Outstanding Teaching Award: Part-Time

Department of Political Science

Outstanding Teaching Award: Graduate Student

Department of History

Outstanding Teaching Award: Tenured/Tenure-Track

School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs Department of Economics

Outstanding Teaching Award: Tenured/Tenure-Track

Department of English

Outstanding Teaching Award: Full-Time Non-Tenure-Track

Human Services Program School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs

Outstanding Teaching Award: Part-Time

School of Criminology and Criminal Justice

Outstanding Teaching Award: Graduate Student

Department of History

Outstanding Teaching Award: Tenured/Tenure-Track

Department of Economics

Outstanding Teaching Award: Full-time Non-Tenure-Track

Department of English

Outstanding Teaching Award: Part-time

Department of English

Outstanding Teaching Award: Graduate Student

Department of English

Outstanding Teaching Award: Tenured/Tenure-Track

Department of Political Science and International Affairs Program

Outstanding Teaching Award: Tenured/Tenure-Track

Department of English

Outstanding Teaching Award: Full-time Non-Tenure-Track

School of Criminology and Criminal Justice

Outstanding Teaching Award: Part-time

Department of Political Science

Outstanding Teaching Award: Graduate Student

Department of English

Outstanding Teaching Award: Tenured/Tenure-Track

Human Services Program

Outstanding Teaching Award: Non-Tenure-Track

Outstanding Teaching Award: Part-time

Department of English/Writing Program

Department of Political Science

Outstanding Teaching Award: Graduate Student

Department of English

Outstanding Teaching Award: Tenured/Tenure-Track

International Affairs Program

Outstanding Teaching Award: Non-Tenure-Track

Department of English

Outstanding Teaching Award: Part-time

Department of Political Science

Outstanding Teaching Award: Graduate Student