NEWS
Sarah Bernt, Political Science '19, has been selected for the George J. Mitchell Scholarship, which sends future U.S. leaders to the island of Ireland for a year of graduate study.

Director of the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs; Dean's Professor of Sustainability Science and Policy; Director of Strategic Research Collaborations, Global Resilience Institute

PhD Candidate in Public Policy
Associate Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Economics; Director of Research, Dukakis Center
Professor of the Practice in Criminology and Criminal Justice; Director, Institute on Race and Justice

Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice; Co-Director of the Violence and Justice Research Lab

Director of the John D. O'Bryant African American Institute; Research Associate, the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy
Director of the John D. O'Bryant African American Institute; Research Associate, the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy
Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs
Lipman Family Professor of Criminology, Law, and Public Policy
Professor of Political Science, Public Policy and Urban Affairs; Director, Security and Resilience Studies Program
RECOGNITION AND PUBLICATIONS
John Kwoka, Neal F. Finnegan Distinguished Professor of Economics, has been named Chief Economist to Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Lina Khan. During his appointment, Kwoka will be working with competition economists and attorneys on an updated approach to merger review policies.
Languaging Myths and Realities: Journeys of Chinese International Students, written by Qianqian Zhang-Wu, Assistant Professor of English and Director of Multilingual Writing, has been published by Multilingual Matters. In her book, Zhang-Wu used digital ethnographic methods to examine the lived first-semester languaging experiences of twelve Chinese undergraduate students studying in American universities.
Qianqian Zhang-Wu's article "Rethinking Chinese International Students in American Higher Education: ‘Raceless’ and ‘Linguistically Incompetent’?" has also been published in the Educational Research and Development Journal 2021 Special Issue, Dismantling Systems of Racism Against Asians and Asian-Americans.
"Revisiting COVID-19 policies: 10 evidence-based recommendations for where to go from here," written by Richard Wamai, Associate Professor of Cultures, Societies and Global Studies, was published in BMC Public Health.
Announcing Culture, Technology, and the Future of Healthcare

This course uses humanities perspectives to understand the social and cultural aspects of healthcare systems shaped by emerging technologies and the data they produce. Led by Sari Altschuler,
Associate Professor of English and Associate Director of the Northeastern Humanities Center, the course will introduce students to the challenges posed by the data-heavy healthcare of the future: privacy concerns, the appropriate collection of medical data, racist algorithms, and more. Students will learn how to approach difficult questions from ethical perspectives, understand how health narratives work, and use historical and contemporary data about health disparities to forecast how new technologies might pose social and cultural challenges. The course is open for registration!
EVENTS
Racial Redress and Reparations: Policy Approaches to Remediating Historical Racial Injustice

Wednesday, December 1
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM 
 
Please join the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project and the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs for a conference on policy approaches to redressing historical racial harms. This conference brings together lawmakers, academic experts, and advocates from across the country to explore legislative efforts to launch government-sponsored truth proceedings and reparations programs.
Asia America and the World | The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics

Wednesday, December 1
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM 
 
Mae Ngai, Professor of Asian American Studies and Professor of History, and co-director of the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia University, will be giving the talk "The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics."
Open Classroom: Repairing a Divided America | Plunder, Reparations and Restorative Justice

Wednesday, December 1
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM 

West Village F, Room 020 
The fall 2021 semester’s Open Classroom series focuses on hate crimes, anti-Semitism, anti-Asian discrimination, and ways of bringing together disparate groups to address discrimination and reconciliation. This session of Open Classroom, in collaboration with the Holocaust and Genocide Awareness Committee, features Menachem Kaiser, author of Plunder, and Margaret Burnham, University Distinguished Professor of Law and Affiliate Professor of Africana Studies.
The Fugitive Life of Black Teaching: A History of Pedagogy and Power

Thursday, December 2
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
 
RP 909
Jarvis Givens, Harvard Graduate School of Education, chronicles the history of "fugitive pedagogy": African Americans' subversive traditions of teaching and learning from the slavery era through Jim Crow. Tracing the life and work of famed educator and historian Carter G. Woodson, Givens reveals an expansive world of African American teachers who cultivated dreams and aspiration in generations of students, despite a world order built on black subjection.
In Their Shoes | Panel on Boston Area Reentry and Recovery

Thursday, December 2
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
 
Churchill 101
Join the Northeastern Humanities Center, Department of English, speakers from the nonprofit Writers Without Margins, and cast members from the documentary In Their Shoes for a panel discussion on mass incarceration, addiction, recovery, and literature in unconventional spaces.
Power to the People: Engaging Community Members in Research, Policy, and Practice

Friday, December 3
8:15 AM - 12:30 PM 
 
This conference will bring together policymakers, public officials, and community members to discuss how we can elevate diverse community voices and shape policies that are beneficial to the widest range of urban residents and workers. Panel discussions include:
  • Achieving Racial Equity and Social Justice
  • Housing for Equity and Inclusion
  • Reducing Inequality through Education and Workforce Development
  • Ensuring Climate Justice and Sustainability
Saving the News: Addressing Digital Disruption and the Future of Journalism

Friday, December 3
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM 
 
Martha Minow, Harvard Law School, will present her current research in a talk entitled "Saving the News: Addressing Digital Disruption and the Future of Journalism." Following her talk, Professor Minow will engage with Meredith Clark, Associate Professor and Founding Director of the Center for Communication, Media Innovation and Social Change, CAMD; Brooke Foucault Welles, Associate Professor of Communication Studies and Affiliated Faculty of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; and James Hackney, Dean and Professor of Law, NUSL. Finally, there will be time for a Q&A with attendees.