WEEK OF JULY 03, 2023

The newsletter will be published bi-weekly until the start of the fall semester.

Ted Landsmark, Distinguished Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Director of the Kitty and Michael Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy, looks back at the impact of the 1976 Pulitzer-winning photograph of his defiance of white supremacy and racism in an article from NGN Magazine.

Read "Nearly 50 years later, famous photo is a ‘teaching tool,’ not just an ‘artifact of America’s past’"

As climate change accelerates refugee crisis, experts stress the need for a shift in social attitudes, global cooperation

Northeastern Global News

Gordana Rabrenovich

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

To save Cherokee language, a digital tool shares tales of Standing Rock and Big Snake with the next generation

Northeastern Global News

Ellen Cushman

Dean's Professor of Civic Sustainability; Professor of English

Benjamin Yelle

Associate Teaching Professor of Philosophy

The Southern Baptist Convention is trying to prevent women from being pastors. What does that mean for religion in America?

Northeastern Global News

Sarah Riccardi-Swartz

Assistant Professor of Religion and Anthropology

Russian mercenary army’s march toward Moscow may have made Putin look weak, but Putin also showed power in the end, expert says

Northeastern Global News

Max Abrahms

Associate Professor of Political Science

Forget charts and bar graphs. Turn data into a play, ‘make them more human’

NGN Magazine

Moira Zellner

Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs; Co-Director of NULab for Texts, Maps and Networks

Inside look at the lives of two transgender icons in a new Northeastern digital collection

NGN Magazine

K.J. Rawson

Associate Professor of English and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies; Co-Director of NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks

Democrats air concerns about Biden primary challengers and third-party campaigns

Washington Examiner

Costas Panagopoulos

Distinguished Professor and Chair of Political Science

Weaponizing the American flag as a tool of hate

CBS News

Ted Landsmark

Distinguished Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs

Juneteenth: The long road to becoming a federal holiday

The Hill

Kabria Baumgartner

Dean’s Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies

What can be done to prevent a submersible tragedy from happening again?

NPR Illinois

Stephen Flynn

Professor of Political Science; Founding Director, Global Resilience Institute

RECOGNITION AND PUBLICATIONS

Ángel Nieves, Dean’s Professor of Public and Digital Humanities and Professor of Africana Studies and History; Doreen Lee, Acting Director of the Asia and the World Program and Associate Professor of Anthropology; and Dzidzor Azaglo, Community Partnership Coordinator, recently won Northeastern’s Community Collaboration Award from the Office of City and Community Engagement for the collaborative project Black Artists of Boston.

Linda Blum, Professor of Sociology, has published “Dating at a Distance: Does it Take a Pandemic to Challenge Campus Sexual Culture?” with Kaitlyn Eri Lee, Sociology '23, Olivia Binder, Sociology '23, and Emma Clifford, Economics and Political Science '25, in the journal Sociological Forum.

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