Elizabeth Bucar, Professor of Religion and Dean's Leadership Fellow, spoke with News@Northeastern about her recently released book, Stealing My Religion, and cultural and religious appropriation.

Read "When it comes to religious appropriation, Northeastern professor says it could be better to borrow more, not less"

Northeastern student invited to the White House to discuss reproductive rights with Kamala Harris

News@Northeastern

A new vending machine at Northeastern is increasing access to safer sex supplies for students

News@Northeastern

Ren Birnholz '23

Cultural Anthropology and Theater 

‘We love Huskies.’ Northeastern students tackle neighborhood service projects in Roxbury

News@Northeastern

Roman Barker-Waters '23

Political Science and International Affairs

The protests in Iran will continue as long as demands of people remain unsatisfied, Northeastern experts say

News@Northeastern

Mai'a Cross

Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs, Diversity and Inclusion; Director of the Center for International Affairs and World Cultures; Dean’s Professor of Political Science, International Affairs, and Diplomacy

Ilham Khuri-Makdisi

Associate Professor of History

Valentine Moghadam

Professor of Sociology and International Affairs

Gordana Rabrenovic

Associate Professor of Sociology; Director of the Brudnick Center on Violence and Conflict

Boston’s 2030 climate goal is out of reach, a new report finds

Boston Globe

Can U.S. cities use climate plans to 'undo' racist legacies?

Context/Reuters

Joan Fitzgerald

Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs

Darrell Brooks, convicted in the Waukesha Christmas parade attack, claimed he was a ‘sovereign citizen.’ Does the concept have any legal basis?

News@Northeastern

Can elected officials oust citizens from public meetings for being rude?

WGBH

Daniel Medwed

University Distinguished Professor of Law and Criminal Justice in the College of Social Sciences and Humanities and the School of Law

Do political endorsements matter?

CBS News

Outside groups drop millions in midterm ad buys as campaigns reach final stage

Washington Times

Costas Panagopoulos

Distinguished Professor of Political Science; Department Chair

‘Antisemitism has never gone away.’ Ye’s comments are a reminder of how pervasive antisemitism still is.

News@Northeastern

Lori Lefkovitz

Ruderman Professor of Jewish Studies; Director of Jewish Studies Program; Professor of English

How a Cherokee Leader Ensured His People’s Language Survived

History

Ellen Cushman

Dean's Professor of Civic Sustainability; Professor of English

Letters of Ignatius Sancho offer window to life of Black man in 18th-century London

News@Northeastern

Nicole Aljoe

Professor of English and Africana Studies

RECOGNITION AND PUBLICATIONS

Serena Parekh, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion, will receive a 2022 Falling Walls Social Science and Humanities Award on November 8. Recipients of this award are engaged in projects that “will shape the future of science and society.”

Sina Fazelpour, Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Computer Science, and the Ethics Institute have received a Public Interest Technology University Network Challenge Grant to support the IDEAS Summer Program, which gathers undergraduates to help the next generation learn to think critically and systematically about the ethical risks posed by technologies, and how to responsibly develop AI and data science systems that benefit the many, not only the few. The grant will bolster efforts to embed diversity, equity, and inclusion in technology development.

Natasha Frost, Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice and Director of the Corrections and Reentry Lab, was named Vice President for the American Society of Criminology.

Nicole Aljoe, Professor of English and Africana Studies, published "Reading and Teaching Phillis Wheatley Peters in Boston" in The Journal of Early American Literature about poet Phillis Wheatley Peters and the 250th anniversary of her well-known work, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral.

Qianqian Zhang-Wu, Assistant Professor of English and Director of Multilingual Writing, has a new article in the journal Written Communication. "Rethinking Translingualism in College Composition Classrooms: A Digital Ethnographic Study of Multilingual Students’ Written Communication Across Contexts" discusses the pedagogical implications of supporting multilingual students in college composition classrooms.