CSSH's 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 accumulate 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
 
Molly Nebiolo, PhD candidate in History, recently published "Philly Streets Keep People Healthy" in the May 7 issue of Philadelphia Weekly, discussing the relationship between public health and city streets in eighteenth-century Philadelphia.

Alicia Sasser Modestino, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Economics, Alisa Lincoln, Associate Dean of Research, Director of the Institute for Health Equity and Social Justice Research, and Professor of Sociology and Health Sciences, and Jamie Ladge of the D'Amore-McKim School of Business were awarded seed grant funding from the Office of the Provost for a project entitled "Making Families More Resilient: The Role of Employer Practices and Public Policy on Household Well-Being during the COVID19 Pandemic" .

View a recording of "Pivoting Research in Crisis", hosted by CSSH on Thursday, May 14. Panelists Alisa Lincoln,  Daniel Aldrich, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy and Urban Affairs, and  Elizabeth Bucar, Professor of Religious Studies, shared their experiences with pivoting their research during challenging situations prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, and discussed with the audience what is possible now.

Check out how our colleagues are shaping public discussions here : 
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Achievements and Awards 

Recipients of Northeastern's internal grants for interdisciplinary research have been announced for FY21. The competitive Tier program provides funds to support and encourage individual faculty members to form multidisciplinary teams to secure proof of concept, with a goal of successfully competing for future sponsored research opportunities. The following projects involving CSSH faculty have received Tier 1 funding: 
  • Representing Racial Identity in Early Women's Writing
  • Voting Delayed/Denied: Examination of Voting Line Behaviors in 2020 Election
    •  Ted Landsmark, Distinguished Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Director of the Kitty and Michael Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy; Costas Panagopoulos, Department Chair and Professor of Political Science; Margaret Burnham (Law)
  • Digital Cities Research Network
    • Dan O'Brien, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Criminology and Criminal Justice, and Co-Director of the Boston Area Research Initiative; Oliver Ayers (NCH); Patrick Yott (Libraries)
  • Advancing Racial and Health Equity through the Arts: A Community-engaged Research Study in the City of Boston
    • Alisa Lincoln, Laura Senier, Associate Professor of Sociology and Health Sciences; Rebekah Moore (Music); Jessica Silbey (Law); Shan Mohammed (Health Sciences); Antonio Ocampo-Guzman (Theatre); Amanda Reeser Lawrence (Architecture)
  • Machine learning to predict and prevent opioid use disorder: clinical value, health equity, and algorithmic fairness
    • Angela Kilby, Assistant Professor of Economics; Leo Beletsky (Law/Health Sciences); Byron Wallace (Computer Science)
  • Optimizing Criminal Justice Responses to the Business of Labor Trafficking
    • Amy Farrell, Associate Director and Associate Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice; Shawn Bhimani (Supply Chain and Information Management); Kayse Maass (Mechanical and Industrial Engineering) 
Virtual Events and Workshops
Monday, May 18 - Friday, May 22

"Writing as Healing: Of Being Numerous" with Emmalea Russo
Information and registration

In his epic objectivist poem, "Of Being Numerous," George Oppen writes, "There are things / We live among 'and to see them / Is to know ourselves'." According to Oppen's contemporary, Louis Zukofsky, objectivist poetics strives to treat the poem as an object while emphasizing sincerity, intelligence, and the poet's ability to look clearly at the world. In this workshop, we will enter the space of Oppen's poem and get to know it through a series of writing prompts meant to help us look deeper into our interior and exterior worlds. What does it mean to be numerous? How do we truly see that which we live amongst? We will forge a relationship with Oppen's poem via daily generative and cumulative writing prompts. In our class meeting at week's end, we'll discuss Oppen's poem and our own experiences spending time with this text while regarding sincerely our own interior and exterior environments.

Presented by the Writing Program, Writing Center and the English Department
Friday, May 22 
5:30 - 7:30 PM

What's Going On...Around the Neighborhood

Join the Office of City and Community Engagement and CSSH student Yasser Aponte for an online informational panel on Boston development, then and now. This panel discussion will cover Boston history, urban renewal, grassroots organizing, and community engagement. 

Presented by the Office of City and Community Engagement
Coming Up Soon

Wednesday, June 10 - Friday, June 12

SCORAI (Sustainable Consumption Research and Action Initiative) Annual Conference

The 2020 SCORAI International Conference will convene scholars and practitioners from around the world who are engaged in work integrating issues of social justice and sustainable consumption as it relates to urban issues and social equity.