IN THE NEWS
Carlos Cuevas, Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice and Co-Director of the Violence and Justice Research Lab, and Amy Farrell, Director and Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice and Co-Director of the Violence and Justice Research Lab, spoke with News@Northeastern about human trafficking.

Professor and Chair of Political Science
Associate Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Economics; Research Director, Dukakis Center
Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice; Co-Director of the Violence and Justice Research Lab

Director and Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice; Co-Director of the Violence and Justice Research Lab
Professor, Political Science and Public Policy

Lipman Family Professor of Criminology, Law, and Public Policy
Affiliated Faculty of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; University Distinguished Professor of Law

Professor of Political Science
Dean's Professor of Sustainability Science & Policy; Director of Strategic Research Collaborations, Global Resilience Institute
Assistant Professor of Race, Social Justice, and the Built Environment in the College of Social Sciences and Humanities and the College of Arts, Media and Design
Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs; Director of Participatory Modeling and Data Science
Ruderman Professor of Jewish Studies; Director of Jewish Studies Program; Professor of English
Undergraduate Program Director and Associate Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies
Professor of Law, Public Policy, and Urban Affairs
Associate Professor of Political Science
Associate Professor of Law and Political Science
Affiliated Faculty of the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs; George J. and Kathleen Waters Matthews Distinguished University Professor of Law
Director of Hybrid and Online Programs in the School of Law; Director of the Law and Public Policy Minor in the College of Social Sciences and Humanities
Affiliated Faculty of the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs; University Distinguished Professor of Law
RECOGNITION AND PUBLICATIONS
Elizabeth Bucar, Professor of Religion and Principal Investigator of Sacred Writes Public Scholarship on Religion, has received a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation for a two-year project called Sacred Writes: Public Scholarship on Race, Justice, and Religion. This funding will further support the development of the Sacred Writes public engagement program from 2022 until 2024. The grant will fund four initiatives that build organizational capacity while explicitly centering anti-racism.
EVENTS
Academic Innovation for the Public Good | A Book Conversation Series

Wednesday, July 27
4:00 - 5:00 PM
Join the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs for 10 monthly book conversations with leading scholars on how higher education can affect the public good. Each session features an author of a recently published book exploring the role of colleges and universities in addressing societal problems. An expert in the author’s field will conduct the interview, followed by questions from the audience.

This session will feature guest speaker Ethan Ris, assistant professor of educational leadership at University of Nevada, Reno, and author of Other People’s Colleges: The Origins of American Higher Education Reform.
FREDA: A Film Screening & Conversation with Director

Wednesday, September 28
6:00 - 9:30 PM
Join the Africana Studies Program for a screening of the Haitian film FREDA, which follows the life of a young woman challenged with the difficult choice to either leave her home, or seek change within it. After the film, Africana Studies Director Régine Jean-Charles will be in conversation with the film director Gessica Généus.