WEEK OF JULY 27, 2026

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Chinbo Chong, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Cultures, Societies, and Global Studies, has published "The Model Minority Stereotype and Republican Partisan Identification Among Asian Americans" in Political Behavior.

Professor of History Louise Walker's book Debts Unpaid: Two Centuries of Trouble and Conflict in Mexico's Economy has received the Wallace K. Ferguson Prize from the Canadian Historical Association. The award is given for the best scholarly book in a field of history other than Canadian history. 

Gretchen Heefner, Chair and Professor of History, has won the Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations for her book Sand, Snow, and Stardust: How US Military Engineers Conquered Extreme Environments. This prize is designed to reward distinguished scholarship in the history of American foreign relations, broadly defined.

Rideshare companies provide transportation, food, groceries…and sprawl, research finds

Northeastern Global News

Dan O'Brien

Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Criminology and Criminal Justice

Josh Rosen

Public Policy PhD student

Elections, death, war: Where should regulators draw the line with prediction markets?

Northeastern Global News

Rory Smead

Professor of Philosophy; Ronald L. and Linda A. Rossetti Professor for the Humanities; Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion

Chad Lee-Stronach

Assistant Professor of Philosophy

Would the US defend Europe from a Russian attack? Leaders meet at NATO Summit

Northeastern Global News

Mai'a Davis Cross

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

From Colorado to New York: Is democratic socialism on the rise?

Northeastern Global News

Nicholas Beauchamp

Associate Professor of Political Science

Rising high schoolers study wildfires in Oakland amid historic dry season

Northeastern Global News

Anncy Thresher

Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religion and Public Policy and Urban Affairs

‘Widow’s Bay’ shows why New England is the ‘creepy attic of America,’ experts say

Northeastern Global News

Jessica Parr

Professor of the Practice in History, Director of Public History

Ted Landsmark was attacked with an American flag 50 years ago. What does the flag mean to him now?

WBUR

Ted Landsmark

Distinguished Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs

Shootings in Nine States Mar Fourth of July Celebrations

New York Times

James Alan Fox

Research Professor of Criminology

‘Action required,’ ‘Leadership chose, YOU’: The recipe behind fundraising emails that can spread like weeds

MPR News

Costas Panagopoulos

Distinguished Professor of Political Science

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