WEEK OF MAY 15, 2023

Students Emerson Johnston, Politics, Philosophy, Economics and History, Culture, and Law '23, and Conor Messer, Biomechanical Engineering '19, recently received Knight-Hennessy Scholars fellowships, enabling them to pursue master’s degrees at Stanford University in the fall. Amílcar Barreto, Professor and Chair of Cultures, Societies, and Global Studies; Professor and Interim Director of International Affairs; and Professor of Political Science, and Michelle Zaff, Senior Co-op Coordinator, spoke with Northeastern Global News about the impressive award and Emerson's journey in CSSH.

Read "‘I fell in love with tech.’ Two Northeastern scholars win prestigious Knight-Hennessy fellowships."

Why are there fewer serial killers now than there used to be?

Northeastern Global News

James Alan Fox

Lipman Family Professor of Criminology, Law, and Public Policy

Jack Levin

Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Criminology

Emma E. Fridel

PhD Criminology and Justice Policy '20

Professors in Boston and Oakland honored for creating ‘a model of how Northeastern’s global network can be leveraged to create real and measurable change’

Northeastern Global News

Alicia Sasser Modestino

Associate Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Economics; Research Director, Dukakis Center

Carrie Maultsby-Lute

Head of Partnerships-Oakland Campus

Why aren’t any Democrats running against Joe Biden in 2024? The trouble with ‘intra-party’ challenges to a sitting president

Northeastern Global News

Biden takes to the road and stays on offense after McCarthy debt limit meeting

Washington Examiner

Costas Panagopoulos

Distinguished Professor of Political Science; Department Chair

Why do grads wear caps and gowns? The meaning behind commencement regalia

Northeastern Global News

William Fowler

Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History

This Northeastern poet is using computation to write poems—and winning awards for it

Northeastern Global News

Lillian-Yvonne Bertram

Associate Professor of English, Africana Studies, and Art & Design

Corporate manslaughter and worker's comp: What's at stake after Newburyport chemical plant worker's death

GBH News

Daniel Medwed

University Distinguished Professor of Law and Criminal Justice

RECOGNITION AND PUBLICATIONS

Lori Lefkovitz, Ruderman Professor of Jewish Studies, Professor of English, and Director of Jewish Studies Program, has donated archival materials and records from her time as Founding Director of Kolot: Center for Jewish Women’s and Gender Studies to Brandeis University. The Brandeis University Archives hosts a wealth of historical materials from the 1970s and 1980s on the early years of Jewish feminism, and Professor Lefkovitz’s notebooks of organized artifacts will help fill in gaps in records for the 1990s through the early 2000s.

Jonathan Benda, Teaching Professor in the Writing Program and English Department, has been selected for Northeastern's Full-Time Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Fellowship Program for Fall 2023. Professor Benda will conduct research on Taiwanese rhetoric and develop an undergraduate course on comparative rhetoric with a focus on Asian rhetorics.

Silvia Prina, Associate Professor of Economics, has been invited to join J-PAL's Inclusive Financial Innovation Initiative research team, which aims to generate evidence on what digital financial services work, why they work, and how they can be deployed to maximize impact.

Robert G. Lee, Associate Academic Specialist in the American Sign Language and Interpreting Education Program, is co-author of "Beyond Equivalence: Reconceptualizing Interpreting Performance Assessment" in Currents, a new imprint from Gallaudet University Press.

Peter Fraunholtz, Assistant Teaching Professor of History and International Affairs, has published "Peasants and the Russian Revolution," a chapter in the new book, The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Russian Revolution.

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