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IN THE NEWS

Theodore Landsmark, Distinguished Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and  Director of the Kitty and Michael Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy, spoke with News@Northeastern about the Northeastern Votes Coalition, started in 2020 to engage NU's community and increase voter participation. Learn more about how the coalition is ramping up outreach ahead of the 2024 presidential election.


Read "Northeastern Votes Coalition wants you to get out and vote this election season."

Student loan forgiveness a ‘meaningful gesture’ but move could drive up inflation, Northeastern economist predicts

News@Northeastern

Nancy Kimelman

Assistant Teaching Professor in Economics


Robert Triest

Chair and Professor of Economics

Forecasting the midterms: can election models actually predict who will win?

News@Northeastern

Nicholas Beauchamp

Associate Professor of Political Science


William Mayer

Professor of Political Science

Mikhail Gorbachev, dead at 91, warned Northeastern grads in 1998 about ‘enforced utopia’

News@Northeastern

Jeffrey Burds

Associate Professor of History

Mass killings database reveals trends, details and anguish in every US event since 2006

USA Today

James Alan Fox

Lipman Family Professor of Criminology, Law, and Public Policy

Now banned by TikTok and others, Andrew Tate rode wave of online misogyny, says Northeastern expert

News@Northeastern

Brooke Foucault-Welles

Associate Professor of Communication Studies and Affiliated Faculty of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

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The College of Social Sciences and Humanities is committed to creating a culture of inclusion for our students, faculty, and staff. Diversity and inclusion, as well as questions of race, racism and anti-racism, are part of all our programs, all our research centers, our three areas of strategic focus—and are always work in progress. The College has released updated statements on our race and social justice work, as well as reports on diversity and inclusion for our departments.


Read about CSSH’s race and social justice initiatives
Read department-level  reports on diversity and inclusion
RECOGNITION AND PUBLICATIONS

Qianqian Zhang-Wu, Assistant Professor of English and Director of Multilingual Writing, has published an article titled "Once a Chinese International Student and Now an English Professor: An Autoethnographic Self-Inquiry of Journeys Against Linguicism and Monolingual Ideologies" in the Journal of International Students.

EVENTS
PPE Speaker Series: Margaret Burnham

Tuesday, September 20
10:00 - 11:30 PM

Curry Senate Chambers
360 Huntington Ave.
Join the Politics, Philosophy, and Economics (PPE) program for a lecture and Q&A with Margaret Burnham, University Distinguished Professor of Law; Director, Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project; and Faculty Co-Director, Center for Law, Equity and Race (CLEAR) at Northeastern University.
Academic Innovation for the Public Good | A Book Conversation Series

Wednesday, September 28
4:00 - 5:00 PM

Join the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs for 10 monthly book conversations with leading scholars on how higher education can affect the public good. Each session features an author of a recently published book exploring the role of colleges and universities in addressing societal problems. An expert in the author’s field will conduct the interview, followed by questions from the audience.

This session will feature guest speaker Van Ton-Quinlivan, former executive vice chancellor for the California Community Colleges and author of WorkforceRx: Agile and Inclusive Strategies for Employers, Educators and Workers in Unsettled Times.
FREDA: A Film Screening & Conversation with the Director

Wednesday, September 28
6:00 - 9:30 PM

Join the Africana Studies Program for a screening of the Haitian film FREDA, which follows the life of a young woman challenged with the difficult choice to either leave her home, or seek change within it. After the film, Africana Studies Director Régine Jean-Charles will talk with the film's director Gessica Généus.
Urvashi Vaid Memorial Gathering

Wednesday, September 28
7:30 - 10:00 PM

Egan Research Center, Raytheon Amphitheatre
120 Forsyth Street
A gathering in memory of Northeastern School of Law alumna and queer rights pioneer Urvashi Vaid.
Jews of Color in Early America

Thursday, October 20
5:30 - 7:00 PM

Raytheon Amphitheatre
120 Forsyth Street
Laura Arnold Leibman, Professor of English and Humanities at Reed College, reveals the early history of multiracial Jews in the United States and Caribbean and explains how their stories got lost in common tellings of Jewish American history.

This lecture is part of the Morton E. Ruderman Memorial Lecture Series on Colors, Cultures, and Flavors of the Jews.
Ethics Institute Speaker:
Kay Mathiesen

Friday, October 21
12:00 - 1:30 PM

RP 428
In the Ethics Institute Speaker Series, hosted by the Department of Philosophy and Religion, scholars share their research with faculty and students alike. Intended to help build a stronger community of scholars, this series demystifies the research process by sharing works-in-progress. This event's speaker is Kay Mathiesen, Associate Professor of Philosophy.
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