A Commitment to Engagement and Resilience

As we monitor the COVID-19 pandemic throughout the summer terms, CSSH will continue to share information about virtual  events as well as success stories that proliferate in our college. 

To submit  Good  News, follow the link after the " Good  News" section below.

The CSSH  event calendar remains active and a source of engaging virtual  events. Please take a look below at what is coming up soon, including this week.
GOOD NEWS
Remaining Resilient
 
Brandon Welsh,  Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, and CCJ Ph.D. alumnus  Steven Zane recently published an article in Justice Quarterly. The article, "How Universal Is Disproportionate Minority Contact? An Examination of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Juvenile Justice Processing Across Four States"   examines disproportionate minority contact in the juvenile justice system.

News@Northeastern features CSSH faculty in "Here's what to read, listen to, and watch to better understand racism against black people in the U.S.," a compendium of resources for the Northeastern community. The list includes works from numerous members of the CSSH faculty, including Moya Bailey, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Tiffany Joseph, Associate Professor of Sociology and International Affairs; Rod K. Brunson, Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. Chair of Public Life in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice and Political Science; Patricia Williams, University Distinguished Professor of Law and Humanities; Nicole Aljoe, Director of Africana Studies Program and Associate Professor of English; and N. Fadeke Castor, Assistant Professor of Religion and Africana Studies.

Kevin Drakulich, Associate Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, was interviewed by News@Northeastern to understand the impact of the Black Lives Matter movement on the 2020 presidential election for the article "Many people who voted in 2016 were motivated by the black lives matter protests. Will the same hold true this year?"

The Global Resilience Institute has received a grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration to develop a resilience-based strategy for economic development in New Orleans.

Silvia Prina, Associate Professor of Economics and Bilge Erten, Assistant Professor of Economics and International Affairs have received funding from the National Bureau of Economic Research's (NBER). They will present their research on "COVID-19 Movement Restrictions and Domestic Violence: Evidence from the U.S" in July to the NBER.


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Achievements and Awards 

Marina Leslie, Associate Professor of English , has announced her retirement from CSSH after thirty years of service. Congratulations to Professor Leslie and many thanks for her exception commitment to our students and mission.

Qianqian Zhang-Wu has accepted a new role in the English Department as Assistant Professor of English and Director of Multilingual Writing. Dr. Zhang-Wu earned her PhD from Boston College in 2018 and previously was Assistant Teaching Professor and Coordinator of Multilingual Writing.

Qianqian Zhang-Wu, Assistant Professor of English and Director of Multilingual Writing was awarded a 2-year Research Foundation Fellowship from the National Council of Teachers of English.
Virtual Events and Workshops

Monday, June 15
12:00 - 1:00 PM
Town Hall Forum to Hear the Voices of Our Community
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Faculty and staff of Northeastern University are invited to join a town hall forum to share thoughts and suggestions about action steps for combating racism and making Northeastern a more inclusive community. The event will be led by the co-chairs of Northeastern's Presidential Council on Diversity & Inclusion, Uta Poiger, Dean of the College of Social Sciences & Humanities, and James Hackney, Dean of the School of Law. Access to the event will be on a first come first served basis as space is limited.

Wednesday, June 17
3:00 - 4:15 PM
Digital Integration Teaching Initiative (DITI) Showcase

Faculty, DITI fellows, and graduate and undergraduate panelists from diverse CSSH disciplines will talk about the experience of working with DITI in a class setting and present the projects developed with DITI support.
Friday, June 19 
3:30 - 4:30 PM

The Smart, Equitable Commonwealth: Co-Creating the Society We Want

BARI's annual conference is a unique forum for greater Boston's civic data ecosystem -- spanning the public sector, private sector, non-profits, community leaders, and academia -- to explore how data and technology can be used to better understand and serve our communities. "Smart cities" should be about more than just efficiency and fancy new tools; it is about partnering across institutions and communities to collaboratively transform all of our cities and towns into the places we want them to be.

Presented by the Boston Area Research Initiative (BARI)
Coming Up Soon

Tuesday, June 23
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Arsalan ul Haq Dissertation Defense

Arsalan ul Haq, a PhD candidate in Literature in the English Department will defend his dissertation titled "Graphic Acts: Narrative Desire and Design in Comics and Architecture"

Tuesday, June 23
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Viral Inequality and Urban Climate Justice

Activist and journalist Julian Brave NoiseCat will discuss how Oakland is setting the agenda. Author and award-winning journalist Derrick Jackson will speak on green justice zones and related approaches to urban climate action. Professor and climate author Joan Fitzgerald will build on these cases with strategies for decarbonizing and revitalizing low-income neighborhoods to create opportunity. All three will reflect on building a national climate justice agenda to support cities. Ted Landsmark, Distinguished Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Director of the Kitty and Michael Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy, will moderate and field audience questions.
Thursday, June 25
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM

History Repeats Itself: Yellow Peril 
A virtual discussion for the northeastern Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander community during COVID-19.