NEWS
Régine Jean-Charles, Director of Africana Studies, Dean’s Professor of Culture and Social Justice, and Professor of Africana Studies and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Margaret Burnham, University Distinguished Professor of Law and Affiliate Professor of Africana Studies, talked about Jean-Charles' new book and Martin Luther King Jr.’s complex legacy as part of the university’s commemoration of MLK Day. 

Professor of the Practice in Criminology and Criminal Justice; Director, Institute on Race and Justice
Professor of Environmental Science and Public Policy
Professor of Political Science; Department Chair
Associate Professor, Sociology and Health Science
Lipman Family Professor of Criminology, Law, and Public Policy
Associate Professor of Law and Sociology
University Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Computer Sciences, Co-Director of NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks
Assistant Professor of Journalism and Media Innovation; Affiliate in the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs
Nominate a Faculty Member for CSSH's Outstanding Teaching Awards

Thanks to the generosity of an anonymous donor and in recognition of the excellent teaching provided by faculty and graduate students in our college, the College of Social Sciences and Humanities is pleased to provide these annual awards.

The award types are:

  • Outstanding Teaching Award | Tenured/Tenure-Track: open to any tenured or tenure-track faculty member in the college
  • Outstanding Teaching Award | Full-Time Non-Tenure Track: open to any full-time, non-tenure track faculty member, including lecturers, academic specialists, teaching professors, professors of the practice, and co-op coordinators
  • Outstanding Teaching Award | Part-Time: open to any part-time instructor in the college
  • Outstanding Teaching Award | Graduate Student: open to all graduate teaching assistants and graduate instructors of record in the college
Apply to join the Women's Research Engagement Network's Scholar Program for Spring 2022

Gain access to an interdisciplinary cohort of women in research, exclusive research-focused events and trainings, poster presentation opportunities, and more. Female aligned individuals with prior research experience in any discipline or setting (on co-op, on campus, in high school, etc.) are eligible to apply! Applications are accepted on a rolling basis. Learn more and apply today.
RECOGNITION AND PUBLICATIONS
Chris Gallagher, Vice Chancellor for Global Learning Opportunities and Professor of English, has co-authored an article with doctoral alumni Kevin G. Smith (English PhD ’18) and Kristi Girdharry (English PhD ’16) entitled, “Writing Transfer, Integration, and the Need for the Long View” in the latest volume of College Composition and Communication.
Sari Altschuler, Associate Professor of English and Associate Director of the Northeastern Humanities Center, has published an article entitled “Wave/Forest Fire” in a symposium on 2020 keywords in the journal Theory & Event. In the article, Professor Altschuler highlights the ways in which wave and forest fire metaphors fail to capture the full complexity of experiences for those infected with COVID-19.
Timothy Hoff, Professor of Management, Healthcare Systems and Public Policy, has co-authored an article for Health Care Management Review. The article, "The gender pay gap in medicine: A systematic review," offers evidence of female doctors’ continued differential treatment compared to their male counterparts.
Matthew Hunt, Professor of Sociology, has published "Public beliefs about the black/white socioeconomic status gap: What's 'upbringing' got to do with it?," an article on Americans' beliefs about racial inequality in Social Science Quarterly.
EVENTS
Faculty Works-in-Progress | Concluding Thoughts: Popular Economies and Pandemic Fraud in Indonesia

Monday, January 24
12:00 - 1:00 PM
 
Join CSSH faculty members as they share current research with colleagues, field questions, and foster discussion. This week's presenter is Doreen Lee,
Associate Professor of Anthropology.
IRJ Race and Community Dialogue Series: Forum on Race, Police and Youth Relationships Part 2 - Expanding the Conversation

Tuesday, January 25
3:30 - 5:00 PM
 
The Institute on Race and Justice and its Community Advisory Board present the second annual "Race and Community Dialogue Series." This series consists of three panel discussions exploring important topics on race and communities of color amid the pandemic and considerations post COVID-19.
Pacific Northwest National Lab Info Session

Friday, January 28
12:00 - 1:00 PM
 
Learn more about working at the Pacific Northwest National Lab and about projects that you could be a part of now. Speakers include Ann Lesperance, Director of the Northwest Regional Technology Center; Robert Rallo, Division Director; Daniel Corbiani, Research and Development Scientist; Samrat Chatterjee, Senior Data/Operations Research Scientist and Team Lead; and Sarah Frazar,
Group Leader of Global Security Technology and Policy.
Civility Series: Intersections of Ableism

Thursday, February 3
3:00 - 4:30 PM
 
Northeastern alumni and faculty will come together to discuss misconceptions of Deafness and disability in society as well as efforts to address these misconceptions, unpacking concepts of ableism and audism from an intersectional lens. Speakers include Lori Whynot, Director of the American Sign Language and Interpreting Program; Sari Altschuler, Associate Professor of English; Tracy Robinson-Wood, Professor of Counseling and Applied Educational Psychology; Joseph Murray (BA, Political Science '95), Professor of American Sign Language and Deaf Studies, Gallaudet University and President of the World Federation of the Deaf; and Opeoluwa Sotonwa (DLP '18), Commissioner, Massachusetts Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.
In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918-1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust

Monday, February 7
5:30 - 7:00 PM
 
Raytheon Amphitheatre
This year's Holocaust and Genocide Awareness Week begins with speaker Jeffrey Veidlinger from the University of Michigan.
Asia America and the World | Race, Religion, and Belonging of South Asian Americans: 20 Years after 9/11

Thursday, February 10
6:00 - 7:00 PM
 
Sangay Mishra, Drew University, will speak at the fifth session of Asia America and the World. He specializes in immigrant political incorporation, transnationalism, diaspora, and racial and ethnic politics. His work engages with political participation of South Asian immigrants in the United States as well as countries of origin with a particular focus on immigrants from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.
Talking Back: The Genius of bell hooks 

Friday, February 11
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
 
A prolific author, committed teacher, brilliant intellectual, and bold visionary, bell hooks left an indelible mark on generations of people including activists, artists, and scholars. This one-day symposium hosted by the Africana Studies Department will consist of three panels offering formal and informal reflections about hooks' profound and wide-ranging impact and will be led by Régine Jean-Charles, Director of Africana Studies and Dean’s Professor of Culture and Social Justice.
WGSS Visiting Scholar Talk: 'Girls for Sale:' The Nineteenth-Century Origins of Modern Sex Trafficking Narratives

Tuesday, February 15
12:00 - 1:00 PM
 
Mary Gryctko, Visiting Scholar, will present a talk on her work-in-progress followed by a Q&A. She will focus on young sex workers in Victorian England and the ways in which reformers who framed them as "children" worked to take away their agency, and to frame all sex work as non-consensual "trafficking."