Faculty Works-in-Progress Colloquium Series | First Session

Monday, January 13

12:00 - 1:00 PM

RP 909

Boston campus

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Please note: Attendance is only open to Northeastern University students, staff, and faculty. Lunch is provided.

Join the Northeastern University Humanities Center to hear faculty share their research and spark discussions that bridge history, identity, and societal change, followed by Q&A.

This session features Anjie Chan Tack, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Africana Studies; Risa Kitagawa, Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs and Faculty Affiliate in the Global Resilience Institute & Global Asian Studies Program; Elizabeth Bucar, Professor of Religion and Dean's Leadership Fellow; and Philip Thai,

Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies and Director of Global Asian Studies.

Black Feminist Book Club

Tuesday, January 14

12:00 - 1:30 PM

Virtual event

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The Africana Studies Program is hosting their annual Black Feminist Book Club. This year participants will read We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance by Kellie Carter Jackson. Attendees will discuss the first half of the book in January, and the second half during the February session.

Faculty Works-in-Progress Colloquium Series

Monday, January 27

12:00 - 1:00 PM

RP 909

Boston campus

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Please note: Attendance is only open to Northeastern University students, staff, and faculty. Lunch is provided.

Join the Northeastern University Humanities Center to hear faculty share their research and spark discussions that bridge history, identity, and societal change, followed by an interactive Q&A.

This session features Cassie McMillan, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminology and Criminal Justice. Professor McMillan will present "New Destinations, Adolescent Friendship, and Substance Use: How Migration Inspires Network Revitalization."

Daniel Faber, Professor of Sociology, published "Climate Change as Class Struggle in America: Matthew Huber and the Challenges Confronting the Ecological Left" and "Jane McAlevey and the Politics of Deep Labor Organizing" in separate issues of Capitalism Nature Socialism.

Alicia Sasser Modestino, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Economics and Research Director of the Dukakis Center, has been named a J-PAL North America Evidence Champion—the second annual award to recognize individuals who have made extraordinary contributions to the field of evidence-based policymaking.