The deadline for proposals for the Undergraduate Research Forum has been extended to March 5!
Faculty, please encourage your students working on independent or collaborative research projects to submit proposals!
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ASL Interpreter Sharon Mendes; Tracy Robinson-Wood, Professor of Counseling and Applied Educational Psychology; Lauren Bough, '21 International Affairs; Abbey Stewart, '22 Nursing; CSSH Dean Uta Poiger; Ellen Cushman; and MaKayla James, '21 Psychology, were featured in a News@Northeastern article on the latest session of Racial Literacy, hosted by the Presidential Council on Diversity and Inclusion.
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Qianqian Zhang-Wu, Assistant Professor of English and Director of Multilingual Writing, has won the 2021 Best Dissertation of the Year Award from the Comparative & International Education Society (CIES) Study Abroad & International Students Special Interest Group. The mission of this group is to “promote interdisciplinary scholarship opportunities and critical dialogues by connecting professionals and academics who are involved in serving the international student population.” Professor Zhang-Wu will be recognized for her dissertation, entitled, Exploring the Bilingual Linguistic Functioning of First-Semester Chinese International Students: Myths and Realities, at the vCIES 2021 Annual Conference later this year. |
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Ellen Cushman, Dean's Professor of Civic Sustainability, Professor of English, and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, Diversity and Inclusion, has been awarded a Native American Leadership grant from the Henry Luce Foundation. The grant will support the Digital Archive for American Indian Languages Preservation and Perseverance (DAILP). DAILP seeks to provide an archiving space suitable for the collective translation of American Indian language manuscripts to advance indigenous language learning, translation, and documentation. |
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Cara Marta Messina (English PhD ’21) has accepted a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of English (Professional Writing) at the Jacksonville State University Department of English starting this fall. Cara is defending her dissertation, “The Critical Fan Toolkit: Fanfiction Genres, Ideologies, and Pedagogies” (directed by Professor Mya Poe) on March 25, 2021. |
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Gary Goshgarian, Professor of English, will publish his ninth novel, co-authored with Tess Gerritsen, in July via publisher Thomas & Mercer (imprint of Amazon). Writing under his pen name, Gary Braver, CHOOSE ME is a murder mystery about a reckless affair and dangerous secrets set in the fictitious Commonwealth University in Boston. |
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Alicia Sasser Modestino, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Economics and Director of Research in the Dukakis Center, appeared in a New York Times article on her research into gender politics in the economics field. |
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Daniel Aldrich, Professor of Political Science, Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Director of the Security and Resilience Studies Program, and Denise Garcia, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, were interviewed by News@Northeastern on shifting global power amid the pandemic. |
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Cassie McMillan, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminology and Criminal Justice, spoke with Salon on her research about the ways adolescents use bullying as a means to increase their social status. Her study’s findings also went viral on Reddit, appearing on the website’s front page. |
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David Lazer, University Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Computer Sciences, appears in a recent News@Northeastern article on the enduring issues with the COVID-19 vaccine rollout.
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Interested in Having a Letterpress Design Made?
While Huskiana Letterpress Studio has been closed during the pandemic, they have continued to forge ahead on the Letterpress Goes 3D (LG3D) project, which looks to reverse-engineer historical woodcuts and metalcuts for educational and creative use in the Huskiana Letterpress Studio. Looking ahead to the future, the Studio is now seeking designs that instructors and researchers. These designs might be used in courses, research, or creative projects with potential for wider usage. They might be historical or contemporary.
Please email Kenny Oravetz, Assistant Director of Huskiana Press, to participate in LG3D.
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DITI is Accepting Applications for Faculty Partnerships for Summer & Fall 2021
The Digital Integration Teaching Initiative (DITI) is now accepting new faculty partnerships for summer and fall 2021. Northeastern has committed to better teaching our undergraduates the digital tools, skills, and methods that will enable them to be successful in today’s world. The DITI was established to help CSSH faculty to meet this goal. We collaborate with faculty across CSSH disciplines to help integrate digital methods and skills in a wide range of classes.
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Gideon Klein Award: $5000 for a Project on Music or Musicians During the Holocaust
During the Holocaust, many musicians and other artists were persecuted by the Nazis; some because they were Jewish, others because of their art. The Gideon Klein Scholar creates an original composition, prepares a performance, or conducts research on a musician victim. They will offer a public presentation at Northeastern's annual Holocaust and Genocide Awareness Week and the project will be digitally archived at the University Library.
The award is open to students of all majors at Northeastern University. To apply, please submit:
- 1-2 page proposal describing your work
- Your resume
- One faculty recommendation
- Copy of your transcript
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CSSH Launches a New Dialogue of Civilizations: Cambodian and Vietnamese Food and Culture in Boston
In this Dialogue, students will travel to immigrant communities in Boston, Lowell, and Dorchester to learn about food, Southeast Asian culture, and the intersection of the two through fieldwork: eating, cooking,a researching, and writing. Students will gain cross-cultural understanding through analyzing food and identity along with developing interdisciplinary research projects and applying that work to their individual fields. Student will also attend museum and farm tours, and take a cooking class as Covid restriction allow. This dialogue will be led by Caitlin Thornbrugh, Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor in English, and Kat Gonso, Teaching Professor in English.
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International Women's Week 2021
Monday, March 1 - Friday, March 5
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The Interdisciplinary Women's Council (IWC) will host a week-long celebration dedicated to showcasing all of (or at least a lot of) the wonderful women at Northeastern in honor of International Women's Day. The week will feature ten different panels and five workshops each centered around highlighting the work and achievements of Women at Northeastern. Members of the CSSH community participating in various events during the week include faculty members Stacey Katz Bourns, Carla Kaplan, Madhavi Venkatesan, Jennie Stephens, and Alicia Sasser Modestino; and students Brittany Clottey, Ava Gallo, Emerson Johnston, and Stephanie Luiz.
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Institute on Race and Justice Presents: Trial 4 Film Screening and Panel Discussion
Monday, March 1
5:00 - 6:30 PM
Hosted by the Institute on Race and Justice, along with the Kitty and Michael Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy, and Northeastern University School of Law
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RSVP to attend a panel discussion and screening of Netflix Documentary Trial 4 by Remy Burke. The documentary explores the experience of Sean Elis, who was wrongfully charged in the 1993 killing of a Boston Police Officer and his fight to prove his innocence while exposing police corruption and systemic racism. The panel will feature Ted Landsmark, Distinguished Professor and Director of the Kitty and Michael Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy; Daniel Medwed, University Distinguished Professor of Law and Criminal Justice; and Lisa Kavanaugh, Innocence Program Director at the Massachusetts Committee for Public Counsel Services. This discussion will be led by Jack McDevitt, Director of the Institute on Race and Justice.
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Learning Community: Becoming an Antiracist Educator
Tuesday, March 2
1:30 PM
Hosted by Northeastern University's Center for Advancing Teaching and Learning Through Research, in collaboration with the Center for Intercultural Engagement
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How can we as educators work toward individually and collectively becoming antiracist? In this learning community, offered in collaboration with the Center for Intercultural Engagement, we will explore an array of antiracist readings, videos, and podcasts, including excerpts from Kendi’s How to Be an Antiracist (2019) and Singh’s Racial Healing Handbook (2019). By registering, you are committing to participate in all three sessions and complete approximately two hours of pre-work before our sessions on March 2, March 16, and March 30.
This session is only open to Northeastern University educators. Please use your Northeastern email when registering. By registering, you are committing to participate in all three sessions and complete approximately two hours of pre-work before our sessions on March 2, March 16, and March 30.
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Myra Kraft Open Classroom Inspiring Design: Creating Beautiful, Just, and Resilient Places in America
Wednesday, March 3
6:00 - 7:30 PM
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The events of 2020 will have deep and lasting consequences for every aspect of society, including the physical environments we inhabit—our homes, our neighborhoods, and our cities. This session of MKOC is titled Investing in Infrastructure. The featured speakers are Knox White, Mayor, City of Greenville, South Carolina, and Mary Duckett, President, Southernside Neighborhood in Action. |
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Jacob Murel Dissertation Work-in-Progress Presentation
Friday, March 5
3:30 - 4:30 PM
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Please join the English department for a dissertation work-in-progress presentation by English PhD candidate Jacob Murel. His dissertation is titled "The Reception of Andreas Vesalius' De humani corporis fabrica in Early Modern London's Medical Marketplace." |
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The 2021 Morton E. Ruderman Memorial Lecture
Monday, March 8
Trauma, the Jewish Experience, and Lessons for Post-Covid Mental Health Panel Discussion with Dr. Eva Fogelman, Dr. Rachel Yehuda, and Dr. Danny Brom. The Jewish experience includes a history of dislocation, trauma, and resilience. World renowned experts in the fields of trauma, epigenetics, and mental health will discuss the implications of the research and clinical work they have done with Holocaust survivors, Israeli soldiers, and their families. What lessons can we learn as we recover from a global pandemic, and continue to confront systemic racism and assaults on our democratic institutions?
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Composite Bodies Series | Entangled Nuclear Colonialisms, Matters of Force, and the Material Force of Justice
Wednesday, March 10
5:00 - 6:30 PM
Composite Bodies takes up questions of technology, surveillance, embodiment, and power from an intersectional feminist lens. This session's speaker is Karen Barad, Distinguished Professor of Feminist Studies with affiliations in Philosophy, History of Consciousness, and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at UC Santa Cruz.
The Composite Bodies Series is a partnership between the Northeastern University Humanities Center and the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard.
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Writing Workshop: The Lyric You, Facilitated by MC Hyland
Monday, March 15 - Friday, March 19
The Writing Center, Writing Program, and Writing Minor at Northeastern are thrilled to sponsor two online writing workshops for NU faculty, staff, students, and the community at large—one will be held in February and the other in March. How can we begin to process and account for our experience during this time of unrest, loss, and suspension? We believe that writing can be a powerful tool for reflecting on our present condition and hope that these workshops will begin to provide a space for healing, openness, and creative exploration. Facilitator MC Hyland is the founding editor of DoubleCross Press, a poetry micropress. She is the author of two full-length books of poems: THE END (Sidebrow 2019) and Neveragainland (Lowbrow Press 2010); and over a dozen poetry chapbooks and artist books. Holding MFAs in Creative Writing and Book Arts from the University of Alabama and a PhD in English Literature from NYU, MC teaches undergraduate creative writing and literature classes at NYU as an adjunct.
Workshops are free, open to the public, and welcome writers of all levels and disciplines. Please note this event series is not being offered for course credit.
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Black Feminist Health Science Studies Symposium
Thursday, March 18
1:00 - 5:30 PM
Organized by Moya Bailey, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Speakers include Ruha Benjamin, Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University; Harriet Washington, science writer, editor, and medical ethicist; Evelynn Hammonds, Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University; Patricia Williams, University Distinguished Professor of Law and Humanities at Northeastern University; Nicole Charles, Assistant Professor of Women and Gender Studies the the University of Toronto Mississauga; OmiSoore Dryden, Associate Professor of Medicine at Dalhousie University; Adeola Oni-Orisan, MD, PhD, Resident in Family Medicine at University of California; Ugo Edu, Assistant Professor of African American Studies, UCLA.
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Uncovering COVID-19: Policies and Practices in Global Health
Thursday, March 18
4:00 - 5:30 PM
Join the Africana Studies program for a panel discussion rooted in scholarly research about COVID-19 and its detrimental impact on Black, Brown, and minority community. The event will feature panelists such as Richard Wamai, Associate Professor of Cultures, Societies and Global Studies; Uzma Alam, MD, Director of Women’s Imaging Buffalo Diagnostic Imaging; and Johnothan Smileye Jr., MD, Resident Physician, at Penn Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Health System.
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The Critical Role of Social Ties in Disasters and Shocks | Klein Lecture
Monday, March 22
2:00 PM
Daniel Aldrich, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Director of the Security and Resilience Studies Program, has been named Northeastern University's 57th Robert D. Klein Lecturer.
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Cara Marta Messina Dissertation Defense
Thursday, March 25
3:00 - 5:00 PM
Please join the English department for a dissertation work-in-progress presentation by English PhD candidate Cara Marta Messina. Her dissertation is titled "The Critical Fan Toolkit: Fanfiction Genres, Ideologies, and Pedagogies."
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