Sasha Sabherwal
Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Global Asian Studies
s.sabherwal@northeastern.edu
Specializations:
South Asian Diaspora
Critical Ethnic Studies
Transnational Feminist Cultural Studies
Racialization of Religion
Caste
Course idea:
None specified
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Patricia Davis
Associate Professor, Media & Design, Northeastern
Specializations:
Memory
Race
Gender
Representation
Visual culture
Material culture
Corporeality
Media studies
Course idea:
Memory and Gender: this course will explore the ways in which women have used various modes of historical production to represent their experiences of and perspectives on the past. It will include studies of women's performance, visual and material culture, filmmaking, literature, and other forms of memory work.
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Madhavi Venkatesan
Assistant Teaching Professor, Economics, Northeastern University
Specializations:
Environment
Sustainability
Sustainable and Ecological Economics
Race, Gender, Poverty
SDGs
Resilience
Course idea:
Biological roots of economic systems: An evaluation of how biology and environment foster economic frameworks and an assessment of the rationale for differences in economic goals.
None specified
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Jennie C. Stephens
Professor, Sustainability & Science Policy, Northeastern University
Specializations:
Climate justice
Energy justice
Antiracism
Feminist leadership
Course idea:
None specified
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Bilge Erten
Assistant Professor, Economics, Northeastern University
Specializations:
Development and international economics, with a particular focus on empirical research
Gender, health, and education
Course idea:
None specified
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Francesca Inglese
Assistant Professor, Ethnomusicology, Northeastern University
Specializations:
African-Diasporic music and dance
Critical race studies
Ethnographic method and ethics
Cultural politics
Postcolonialism
Course idea:
None specified
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Colin Brown
Assistant Teaching Professor, Political Science, Northeastern University
Specializations:
Political Representation
Representation in Legislatures
Citizenship and Naturalization
Immigrant Integration and Incorporation
Social Science Pedagogy
Course idea:
Citizenship, Migration, Gender, and Representation: Who Runs for Office?
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K.J. Rawson
Associate Professor, English, Northeastern University
Specializations:
Digital humanities
Rhetoric
LGBTQ+ and Feminist Studies
Archives
Course idea:
None specified
K.J. Rawson is founder and director of the Digital Transgender Archive, an award-winning online repository of trans-related historical materials, and he is the co-chair of the editorial board of the Homosaurus, an international LGBTQ linked data vocabulary.
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Hillary Chute
Distinguished Professor, English, Northeastern University
Specializations:
Visual culture and feminisms
Comics and graphic narratives
Contemporary literature
Course idea:
None specified
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Denise Khor
Associate Professor, Asian American Studies & Visual Studies and Associate Director, Asian American Studies
Specializations:
Film and Media History
Early Cinema
Nontheatrical Exhibition
Photography and Visual Culture
Asian American and Critical Ethnic Studies
Course idea:
None specified
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Linda Blum
Professor of Sociology, Northeastern University
Specializations:
Contemporary gender relations in US
Work, family, and intersectionality
Disability, gender, medicine, and the body
Course idea:
Teaching Feminist Inquiry. Would be interested in a gender and disability course.
Linda Blum is a qualitative, ethnographic sociologist who studies persistence, change, and contradictions in contemporary gender relations. Her interests include: Gender, Medicine, and the Body; Work, Family, and Intersections of Gender, Race, and Class Inequality; Sociological Theory; Qualitative and Ethnographic Methods; Feminist Theory and Methods. She began her sociological career researching and writing on women’s grassroots movements for comparable pay, but has since developed another focus on ideologies of motherhood in the United States, how we judge fit and unfit, respectable and disreputable, and measure mothers against each other in ways that reinforce class and race inequality. She is the author of Between Feminism and Labor: The Significance of the Comparable Worth Movement (1991, University of California Press); At the Breast: Ideologies of Breastfeeding and Motherhood in the Contemporary United States (1999, Beacon); and Raising Generation Rx: Mothering Kids with Invisible Disabilities in an Age of Inequality (2015, NYU Press).
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Branden Fitelson
Research Scientist, Division of Adolescent/Young Adult Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital and Instructor, Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Specializations:
Logic
Epistemology
Cognitive science
Course idea:
None specified
Before teaching at Northeastern, Branden held teaching positions at Rutgers, UC-Berkeley, San José State, and Stanford and visiting positions at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy at LMU-Munich (MCMP @ LMU) and the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation at the University of Amsterdam (ILLC @ UvA). Branden got his MA and PhD in philosophy from UW-Madison. Before entering philosophy, Branden studied math and physics at Wisconsin, and he worked as a research scientist at Argonne National Laboratory and a NASA contractor.
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Libby Adler
Professor of Law, Northeastern University
Specializations:
Constitutional and family law
Administrative law
Gender, Sexuality and gender identity, and sexuality
Course idea:
None specified
Professor Adler holds a joint appointment with the School of Law and the College of Social Sciences and Humanities. She teaches Constitutional Law, Sexuality, Gender and the Law, Family Law and Administrative Law. Professor Adler has written extensively on sexuality, gender, family and children, including foster care, and draws heavily from queer and critical theory. Her book, Gay Priori: A Queer Critical Legal Studies Approach to Law Reform, was published in April 2018 by Duke University Press. She is also a co-editor of the casebook Mary Joe Frug’s Women and the Law (4th ed.), and has written about contemporary legal issues arising out of Nazism.
Professor Adler has served as a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, where she taught Women and the Law, and at the University of Frankfurt, where she taught a course on contemporary legal fallout from the Nazi labor program. She received the Northeastern University Excellence in Teaching Award in 2007-2008.
Prior to joining the permanent faculty, Professor Adler served Northeastern as a visiting professor in 1999-2000 and as a part-time lecturer in 1998-1999, while also a visiting researcher and graduate fellow at Harvard Law School. In the 1990s, she practiced as a policy attorney for the Massachusetts child support enforcement agency, drafting legislation and regulations.
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Kathrin Zippel
Associate Professor of Sociology, Northeastern University
Specializations:
Gender
Work and Organizations
Gender Equity Politics
Science
Course idea:
None specified
Kathrin Zippel has published on gender politics in the workplace, public and social policy, social movements, welfare states, and globalization in the United States and Europe. Her book, The Politics of Sexual Harassment in the United States, the European Union and Germany, (Cambridge University Press) won several awards.
Her current research explores gender and global transformations of science and education. In her book, Women in Global Science: Advancing Careers Through International Collaboration (Stanford University Press), she argues that global science is the new frontier for women, providing both opportunities and challenges as gender shapes the dynamics and practices of international research. She directs a NSF- funded interdisciplinary network analysis to study the diffusion of ideas on gender equity interventions among U.S. Universities.
Zippel is a co-chair of the Social Exclusion and Inclusion Seminar at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies Harvard University and was a residential fellow at the Women and Public Policy Program at the Harvard Kennedy School. She served as co-PI of Northeastern’s National Science Foundation ADVANCE Institutional Transformation grant. She held a Humboldt Research fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne and the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich; was a guest at Radboud University, Nijmegen, the WZB Social Science Research Center in Berlin, and the European University Institute in Florence. Zippel received a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and was a post-doc at the European Union Center of New York at Columbia University.