NEWS
Reminder: the CSSH newsletter has transitioned to a bi-weekly publication schedule until the start of the fall semester.
Régine Jean-Charles, Director of Africana Studies, Dean’s Professor of Culture and Social Justice, and Professor of Africana Studies and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, shared her reflections on living in the United States in the wake of the Haitian President's assassination in an op-ed for the Boston Globe.
Liam Monahan (SPPUA '22) won the Worcester Historical Museum's Harvey Ball 100th Birthday Celebration logo design contest. This event celebrated Harvey Ball, the designer of the iconic smiley face and a Worcester-native. Monahan was awarded a Key to the City of Worcester and became an Honorary Smile Ambassador by the Harvey Ball World Smile Foundation.
Dan O'Brien, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Criminology and Criminal Justice and Director of the Boston Area Research Initiative, spoke with News@Northeastern on new research examining the proliferation of short-term rentals in neighborhoods and their contribution to higher rates of crime in the area.

Alicia Sasser Modestino, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Economics and Dukakis Center Director of Research, published an op-ed in Project Syndicate on the gender, race, and ethnic imbalance in the field of economics.
Robert Triest, Chair and Professor of Economics, was interviewed by GBH-TV for a story on the labor shortage and its effect on the national economy.
Laurie Edwards, Teaching Professor and Online Pedagogy Coordinator in English, and Mya Poe, Associate Professor of English, have published an article in Prompt: A Journal of Academic Writing Assignments. Their article details their collaboration for the Pandemic Teaching Initiative, a library of publicly accessible educational modules created by Northeastern CSSH faculty that explore the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
David Lazer, University Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Computer Sciences, was interviewed by News@Northeastern for an article on parental attitudes towards the COVID vaccine. Lazer also appears in a story on Gizmodo on anti-vaccine sentiments and the connection to social media.
EVENTS
Python and Text Analysis for Absolute Beginners

Monday, August 2
2:00 - 4:00 PM 
 

This event is co-sponsored by the NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks (CSSH) and Research Data Services (Northeastern University Library)
Pondering Python? Tantalized by text analysis? Wondering how Jupyter notebooks work?

In this hands-on session, attendees will learn some basic Python while working in Jupyter notebooks. Next, we'll use Python and Jupyter to run a simple text analysis on a custom dataset built with Constellate. We will close by discussing opportunities to further expand attendees' coding and text analysis skills after the session.
No prior experience with Python, JSTOR, or Jupyter is necessary, and no programming skills are needed or assumed for this session.