IN THE NEWS
Ángel Nieves, Professor of Africana Studies, History, and Digital Humanities and Director of Public Humanities; Serena Parekh, Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion; Dean Uta Poiger, Professor of History; and Liza Weinstein, Department Chair and Associate Professor of Sociology, were interviewed by News@Northeastern on the Engaging Geography in the Humanities Institute.

Professor of Political Science; Department Chair
Associate Professor of Philosophy; Ronald L. and Linda A. Rossetti Professor for the Humanities
Professor of Political Science; Department Chair

Associate Professor of Philosophy; Ronald L. and Linda A. Rossetti Professor for the Humanities
Professor of Political Science; Founding Director, Global Resilience Institute
Associate Professor of Political Science
Professor of the Practice Emeritus in Criminology and Criminal Justice
Associate Professor of Political Science


Director, Security and Resilience Studies Program; Assistant Teaching Professor of Political Science
Associate Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Economics; Research Director, Dukakis Center
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Professor, Political Science and Public Policy
Distinguished Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs; Director, Kitty and Michael Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy
Professor of English and Africana Studies
University Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Computer Sciences
RECOGNITION AND PUBLICATIONS
Cassie McMillan, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminology and Criminal Justice, and her co-authors won the 2022 Roger V. Gould Prize for their article “With Friends Like These: Aggression from Amity and Equivalence," published in the American Journal of Sociology (AJS).
Thomas Vicino, Professor of Political Science, Public Policy and Urban Affairs, and political science students Robert Harrison Voigt, Mahir Kabir, and Jonathan Michanie have published "Urban Crises and the Covid-19 Pandemic: An Analytical Framework for Metropolitan Resiliency" in Urban Planning. Professor Vicino and the students make up a multi-generational research team studying impact of the pandemic on cities and suburbs.
EVENTS
Academic Innovation for the Public Good | A Book Conversation Series

Wednesday, August 24
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 Marybeth Gasman, professor in the Graduate School of Education at Rutgers University and author of Doing the Right Thing: How Colleges and Universities Can Undo Systemic Racism in Faculty Hiring.
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 be in conversation with the film director Gessica Généus.