NEWS
Jennie Stephens, Director of the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs; Dean's Professor of Sustainability Science and Policy; Director of Strategic Research Collaborations, Global Resilience Institute, and Alaina Boyle, PhD Candidate in Public Policy, co-wrote at article for The Hill on Michelle Wu's historic win.

Cory Bober
BS, Criminal Justice
Director of the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs; Dean's Professor of Sustainability Science and Policy; Director of Strategic Research Collaborations, Global Resilience Institute
Professor of the Practice in Criminology and Criminal Justice; Director, Institute on Race and Justice
University Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Computer Sciences, Co-Director of NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks
Associate Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Economics; Director of Research, Dukakis Center
Professor of Political Science; Department Chair
RECOGNITION AND PUBLICATIONS
John Kwoka, Neal F. Finnegan Distinguished Professor of Economics, has been named Chief Economist to Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Lina Khan. During his appointment to the FTC, Kwoka will be working with competition economists and attorneys on an updated approach to merger review policies. 
Qianqian Zhang-Wu, Assistant Professor of English and Director of Multilingual Writing, has released "Languaging Myths and Realities: Journeys of Chinese International Students," published by Multilingual Matters. In her book, Zhang-Wu used digital ethnographic methods to examine the lived first-semester languaging experiences among twelve Chinese undergraduate students studying in American higher education.
Qianqian Zhang-Wu has also published "Rethinking Chinese International Students in American Higher Education: ‘Raceless’ and ‘Linguistically Incompetent’?" in the Educational Research and Development Journal 2021 Special Issue, Dismantling Systems of Racism Against Asians and Asian-Americans.
Richard Wamai, Associate Professor of Cultures, Societies and Global Studies, has published "Revisiting COVID-19 policies: 10 evidence-based recommendations for where to go from here" in BMC Public Health.
Announcing Culture, Technology, and the Future of Healthcare

This course uses humanities perspectives to understand the social and cultural aspects of healthcare systems shaped by emerging technologies and the data they produce. Led by Sari Altschuler,
Associate Professor of English and Associate Director of the Northeastern Humanities Center, the course will introduce students to the challenges posed by the data-heavy healthcare of the future: privacy concerns, the appropriate collection of medical data, racist algorithms, and more. Students will learn how to approach difficult questions from ethical perspectives, understand how health narratives work, and use historical and contemporary data about health disparities to forecast how new technologies might pose social and cultural challenges. The course is open for registration!
EVENTS
Economics PhD Dissertation: Yunus Cem Yilmaz

Monday, November 29
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM 
 
Curry Student Center 342
Yunus Cem Yilmaz, Economics PhD Candidate, will defend his dissertation Microeconomic Analyses of the Effects of Regulation and Elections Across Europe and Turkey.
Racial Redress and Reparations: Policy Approaches to Remediating Historical Racial Injustice

Wednesday, December 1
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM 
 
Please join the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project and the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs for a conference on policy approaches to redressing historical racial harms. This conference brings together lawmakers, academic experts, and advocates from across the country to explore legislative efforts to launch government-sponsored truth proceedings and reparations programs.
Asia America and the World | The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics

Wednesday, December 1
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM 
 
Mae Ngai, Professor of Asian American Studies and Professor of History, and co-director of the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia University, will be giving the talk "The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics."
Open Classroom: Repairing a Divided America | Plunder, Reparations and Restorative Justice

Wednesday, December 1
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM 

West Village F, Room 020 
The fall 2021 semester’s Open Classroom series focuses on hate crimes, anti-Semitism, anti-Asian discrimination, and ways of bringing together disparate groups to address discrimination and reconciliation. This Session of Open Classroom is in collaboration with the Holocaust and Genocide Awareness Committee. Speakers for this session are Menachem Kaiser, author of "Plunder," and Margaret Burnham, University Distinguished Professor of Law and Affiliate Professor of Africana Studies.
The Fugitive Life of Black Teaching: A History of Pedagogy and Power

Thursday, December 2
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
 
RP 909
Jarvis Givens, Harvard Graduate School of Education, chronicles the history of "fugitive pedagogy": African Americans' subversive traditions of teaching and learning from the slavery era through Jim Crow. Tracing the life and work of famed educator and historian Carter G. Woodson, Givens reveals an expansive world of African American teachers who cultivated dreams and aspiration in generations of students, despite a world order built on black subjection.
Saving the News: Addressing Digital Disruption and the Future of Journalism

Friday, December 3
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM 
 
Martha Minow, Harvard Law School, will present on her current research in a talk entitled "Saving the News: Addressing Digital Disruption and the Future of Journalism."
Following her talk, Professor Minow will engage with Meredith Clark, Associate Professor and Founding Director of the Center for Communication, Media Innovation and Social Change, CAMD; Brooke Foucault Welles, Associate Professor of Communication Studies and Affiliated Faculty of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; and James Hackney, Dean and Professor of Law, NUSL. Finally, there will be time for a Q&A with attendees.