Faculty
CORE FACULTY
Core LPS faculty have faculty appointments in LPS, teach a core course or serve on the Executive Committee.
Joan Fitzgerald
Director, Law, Policy and Society Program
Professor of Law, Policy and Society
Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University
Specializations
Urban economic development
Urban sustainability planning
Workforce Development
Green economic development
Joan Fitzgerald is the Director of the Law, Policy and Society Program at Northeastern University. Previously, Fitzgerald taught urban policy and public affairs at the New School University, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Ohio State University.
Fitzgerald has written for a wide number of publications, including Economic Development Quarterly, Evaluation and Program Planning, Journal of Black Political Economy, and Urban Education. She has also written policy papers for the Brookings Institution, the Education Commission of the States, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and the Economic Development Assistance Corporation of Boston.
Office: 205 Holmes Hall
Telephone: (617) 373-3644
Email: jo.fitzgerald@neu.edu
Judith Barr
Health Policy
School of Pharmacy, Bouvé College of Health Sciences
ScD, Harvard University
Education
MEd, University of Massachusetts, Boston
BS, Simmons College
Post-doctoral Training
Department of Health Policy and Evaluation, Harvard University
Center for the Evaluation of Medical Practices
Certification
MT (ASCP)
Specializations
Health policy and evaluation
Health outcomes
Major Research Interest
Patient-centered outcome assessment
Pharmacoeconomics
The assessment of teaching and learning
Office: 105 Dockser Hall
Telephone: (617) 373-4188
Fax: (617) 373-4188
Email: j.barr@neu.edu
Barry Bluestone
Stearns Trustee Professor of Sociology and Political Economy
Political Economy, Public Policy, Labor Economics, Industrial Relations
Center for Urban and Regional Policy
Ph.D. University of Michigan
Barry Bluestone is the Russell B. and Andree B. Stearns Trustee Professor of Political Economy, Dean of Northeastern's new School of Social Science, Urban Affairs, and Public Policy, and the founding director of the university's Center for Urban and Regional Policy. The Center is devoted to research and community action projects in housing, workforce development, community economic development, and the implementation of state-of-the-art information technology for schools, community groups, and small business. Before coming to Northeastern in 1999, Bluestone taught political economy for more than twenty-five years at Boston College and the University of Massachusetts Boston. He was the founding director of the Doctoral Program in Public Policy at UMB. He received his BA, MA, and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Michigan
As a political economist, Bluestone has written widely in the areas of income distribution, business and industrial policy, labor-management relations, and urban and regional economic development. He contributes regularly to academic, as well as popular journals, and is the co-author of nine books. These include most recently Growing Prosperity: The Battle for Growth with Equity in the 21st Century (with Bennett Harrison) which explores the post-World War II history of economic growth and income distribution in the U.S, and The Boston Renaissance: Race, Space, and Economic Change in an American Metropolis (with Mary Huff Stevenson). Currently, he is completing a college textbook tentatively entitled The Urban Experience: Economics, Society, and Public Policy to be published next year by Oxford University Press. Earlier books explored the Deindustrialization of America and The Great U-Turn toward increasing inequality in the United States.
At CURP, Bluestone has been involved in a broad range of projects related to assessing the barriers to urban economic development and the housing ?crisis? in Massachusetts. Since the completion of the New Paradigm for Housing in Greater Boston report for the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston and the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce in 2000, the CURP housing team has produced annual reports reviewing the progress toward meeting housing needs in the Commonwealth, working with the assistance of The Boston Foundation and the Citizens? Housing and Planning Association (CHAPA). This work led to a commission from the Commonwealth Housing Task Force to prepare a legislative proposal for encouraging ?smart growth? housing in towns and cities throughout the state, culminating in the successful passage of Chapter 40R and Chapter 40S, the first new comprehensive housing legislation in Massachusetts in nearly forty years. Bluestone is also part of a CURP research team that has created a ?Self-Assessment Tool? to help local municipal leaders attract investment and jobs to their communities.
As part of his work, Bluestone spends a considerable amount of time consulting with community organizations, trade unions, industry groups, and with various federal, state, and local government agencies. In 1995, he served as Special Policy Adviser to the House Democratic Leader, Richard Gephardt. He is a founding director of the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, D.C. and a member of the scientific committee of the International Center for Social Studies based in Rome, Italy.
He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with his wife Mary Ellen Colten and their son Joshua.
Office: 339 Holmes Hall
Telephone: (617) 373-8595
Email: b.bluestone@neu.edu
Christopher Bosso
Professor and Associate Dean
School of Social Science, Public Affairs, and Public Policy
Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh
U.S. Politics and Public Policy, Environmental and Food Policy, Regulatory Policy, Science, Technology, and Public Policy.
Political Science
Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh
Nanotechnology and Society Research Group
School of Social Science, Urban Affairs and Public Policy
Christopher J. Bosso is Professor of Political Science at Northeastern University and founding Associate Dean of Northeastern's School of Social Sciences, Public Policy, and Urban Affairs. He writes on environmental and food safety politics, the tactics and strategies pursued by environmental groups, the societal impacts of science and technology, and on public policymaking dynamics in general. His most recent major scholarly work is Environment, Inc.: From Grassroots to Beltway (University Press of Kansas, 2005), recently given the Lynton Caldwell Award for best book in environmental politics and public policy by the Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy Section of the American Political Science Association. An earlier scholarly book, Pesticides and Politics: The Life Cycle of a Public Issue (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1987) was given the Policy Studies Organization award for best book in public policy.
Bosso is also a senior researcher with the National Science Foundation Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing (CHN) at Northeastern and director of the Nanotechnology and Society Research Group (link above), which conducts research on societal and regulatory dimensions of nanotechnology.
Recent Publications:
Selected Professional Activities:
President-elect, Pi Sigma Alpha, the National Political Science Honorary Society. To take office in 2004.
Chair, Department of Political Science, 1995-2001.
Office: 341 Meserve Hall
Telephone:(617) 373-4398
Fax: (617) 373-5311
Email: c.bosso@neu.edu
Ballard Campbell
Professor of History
OAH Distinguished Lecturer
History of American Public Policy, Federalism, Research Methods
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin
Ballard C. Campbell is a Professor of History and of Public Policy in Law, Policy and Society at Northeastern University in Boston. He graduated from Northwestern University with a B.A. in Political Science, holds an M.A. in History from Northeastern University, and received a Ph.D. in History from the University of Wisconsin in Madison. He has published five books and numerous articles, book chapters, and reviews on the history of American politics and government, the economy, taxation, and other subjects. His Disasters, Accidents, and Crises in American History (New York: Facts on File) was published in February, 2008. "Depression and Taxes in the United States, 1873-1915" appeared in Taxation, State and Civil Society in Germany and the United States in the 18th to the 20th Century in 2007. His teaching specialties are historical political economy, comparative history, and methods of policy analysis.
Professor Campbell has been affiliated with the Law, Policy and Society Ph.D. program at Northeastern University since 1985. He has hosted the program's Dissertation Seminar since 1987, and chaired the program's Curriculum Committee between 1991 and 2004.
Professor Campbell is president-elect of the New England Historical Association and a Distinguished Lecturer of the Organization of American Historians. He has been president of the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era and served as associate editor of the American National Biography (Oxford University Press, 24 volumes, 1999). He has held fellowships from the Charles Warren Center at Harvard University and the American Council of Learned Societies and is listed in Who's Who in America, and Who�s Who�s in American Education.
His current research focuses on political development in the United States in comparative perspective and the impact of economic disturbances on governance and society.
Office: 233 Meserve Hall
Telephone: (617) 373-4448
Fax: (617) 373-2661
Email:b.campbell@neu.edu
Richard Daynard
Products Liability, Psychiatry and Law, Litigative Strategies
Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
J.D., Harvard University
Professor Daynard's pioneering development of legal approaches to product liability and consumer protection has led to successful anti-smoking litigation, legislation, and regulation. He has written dozens of articles and lectured in more than thirty countries on the relationships between tobacco control, tobacco litigation, and public health. He also has written and lectured extenisvely on law and obesity and chairs the annual conference on legal approaches to the obesity epidemic. Professor Daynard helped develop the concurrent Ph .D program at Northeastern University in Law, Policy, and Society (LPS), and teaches the introductory seminar in the field.
Professor Daynard has lectured about tobacco litigation in 35 countries, and has chaired 20 national and international conferences on the subject. Among his many awards, Professor Daynard has recently been honored by the American Lung Association, the American Cancer Society and the Middlesex Bar Association. He is the principal investigator in contracts from the National Cancer Institute, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He is listed in Who's Who in American Law, Who's Who in America and Who's Who in the World.
Professor Daynard helped develop the concurrent degree program in Law, Policy and Society, and teaches the introductory seminar in the field. Professor Daynard, who helped found the law school's and Tufts University School of Medicine's Public Health Advocacy Institute (PHAI), is heading a PHAI project to determine whether insights learned in tobacco litigation can be applied to the current obesity epidemic.
Professor Daynard is also the President of the Public Health Advocacy Institute.The Public Health Advocacy Institute is an interdisciplinary project created with three goals: 1) To promote the law in common cause with public health; 2) To provide research and education pertaining to public health, public health law, and the public health implications of legal decisions; and 3) To advocate for public awareness and understanding of the impact of legal decisions upon public health and the importance of public health to law.
Public Health Advocacy Institute Webpage
Office: 117 Cushing Hall
Mail: 400 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115
Telephone : (617) 373-2026
Fax: (617) 373-3672
E-mail: r.daynard@neu.edu
James Alan Fox
Lipman Family Professor of Criminal Justice and Professor of Law, Policy and Society.
Homicide, Youth Violence, Quantitative Methods
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1976
James Alan Fox holds a joint appointment at Northeastern, as The Lipman Family Professor of Criminal Justice and Professor of Law, Policy and Society. He has written sixteen books, including his two newest, The Will to Kill: Making Sense of Senseless Murder and Extreme Killing: Understanding Serial and Mass Murder. He has also published dozens of journal and magazine articles, primarily in the areas of multiple murder, juvenile crime, school violence, workplace violence, and capital punishment. He also wrote a biweekly column in the Boston Herald on crime and justice issues, and overall has published over 200 columns in newspapers around the country, including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, Boston Globe, and USA Today. As an authority on homicide, he appears regularly on national television and radio programs, including the Today Show, Meet the Press, Dateline, 20/20, 48 Hours and Oprah, and is frequently interviewed by the press. He was also profiled in a two-part cover story in USA Today, which described him as "arguably the nation's foremost criminologist," in feature stories in The New York Times and Scientific American as well as in other media outlets. He served as a consulting contributor for Fox News following the 9/11 terrorist attacks and as an NBC News Analyst during the D.C. Sniper investigation. Fox often gives lectures and expert testimony, including over one hundred keynote or campus-wide addresses around the country, fifteen appearances before the United States Congress, White House meetings with President and Mrs. Clinton and Vice President Gore on youth violence, private briefings to Attorney General Reno on trends in violence, and a presentation for Princess Anne of Great Britain. He served on President Clinton's advisory committee on school shootings, and a Department of Education Expert Panel on Safe, Disciplined and Drug-Free Schools. Finally, he has served as a visiting fellow with the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics specializing in the measurement of homicide trends.
Specialties:
Juvenile Violence
Multiple Homicide
Statistics
Capital Punishment
Recent and Forthcoming Books:
Elementary Statistics in Criminal Justice Research, (Allyn & Bacon, 2008)
The Will to Kill: Making Sense of Senseless Murder (Allyn & Bacon, 2007)
Elementary Statistics in Social Research (Allyn & Bacon, 2006)
Extreme Killing: Understanding Serial and Mass Murder (Sage, 2006)
Dead Lines: Essays in Murder and Mayhem (Allyn & Bacon, 2001)
Office: 423 Churchill Hall
Telephone: (617) 373-3296
Email: j.fox@neu.edu
Samantha Friedman
Assistant Professor of Sociology
PhD Pennsylvania State University
Her areas of expertise include urban sociology, residential segregation, demography, and immigration. Dr. Friedman's research focuses specifically on understanding the causes and consequences of residential segregation for both foreign-born and native-born minorities and on documenting successes that minorities have in overcoming constraints in the housing market.
Dr. Friedman has published articles in a number of peer-reviewed journals including, Social Problems, Demography, Urban Affairs Review, Housing Policy Debate, Geographical Review, Social Science Quarterly, International Migration Review, Cityscape, and Population Research and Policy Review.
Professor Friedman's forthcoming co-authored book (with Emily Rosenbaum), The Housing Divide: How Generations of Immigrants Fare in New York,s Housing Market, examines generational patterns in immigrant integration into New York City's housing market. The book will be published by New York University Press in December 2006. The main findings of the book are that the generational patterns of housing and neighborhood conditions for whites and Latinos exhibit an upward trajectory, but a consistent pattern of declining outcomes emerges among blacks. The results suggest the potential for the "color line" to shift from a line separating blacks from whites, to one separating blacks from all non-blacks.
Prior to joining Northeastern University, Dr. Friedman was an Assistant Professor of Sociology at George Washington University in Washington, DC for five years. She received her Ph.D. in sociology and demography from the Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Friedman also has an M.A. in sociology and demography from the Pennsylvania State University and a B.A. in sociology and statistics from the State University of New York at Buffalo. She conducted postdoctoral research at the Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy at New York University School of Law.
Office: 535 Holmes Hall
Telephone: (617) 373-3856
Email: s.friedman@neu.edu
Paul Harrington
Associate Director of the Center for Labor Market Studies.
Ed.D University of Massachusetts
Dr. Harrington is a labor economist. He has 23 years of professional experience in the fields of labor market analysis, labor market occupational informational systems, and human resource policy program planning and evaluation. He has served on a number of national, state, and local commissions on employment and training policy, including the recent Massachusetts Joint Commission on Workforce Training.
Among his recent publications are, Threats to Sustained Economic Growth: Science, Engineering, and Information Technology Labor Shortages in the Massachusetts Economy (2000); The College Majors Handbook (1999); The Road Ahead: Emerging Threats to Workers and Families in the Massachusetts Economy (1998); Report of the Massachusetts Business Roundtable Massachusetts AFL-CIO, Joint Commission on Workforce Training (1998); and The State of the American Dream (1997).
Dr. Harrington is the 1997 recipient of the Sar Levitan Award for Research in Employment and Training jointly awarded by Johns Hopkins University and the National Association for Work Force Development Professionals. He earned his B.A. from Northeastern University and an Ed.D from the University of Massachusetts.
Office: 301 Lake Hall
Telephone: (617) 373-2242
Email: p.harrington@neu.edu
Thomas Koenig
Professor of Sociology and Acting Chair in the College of Arts and Sciences
Sociological Theory, Sociology of Business and Public Agencies
Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara
Professor Koenig specializes in empirical analysis of political issues. He is one of the founders of Northeastern University's Law, Policy and Society Ph.D. program. He is co-author (with Michael Rustad) of In Defense of Tort Law (NYU Press, 2001).
Professor Koenig has published recent articles in American University Law Review, Brooklyn Law Review, Michigan Journal of Law Reform, North Carolina Law Review, Rutgers Law Review, Suffolk University Law Review, Washington Law Review, West Virginia Law Review Justice System Journal, and Wisconsin Law Review. His sociological writings include articles published in American Sociological Review, Social Problems, Sociological Quarterly, Social Science Quarterly, Social Science Research, Critical Sociology, Humanity and Society, and American Journal of Economics and Sociology.
Professor Koenig has testified on his research before both the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives. During 1995-1996 he was a Liberal Arts Fellow in Law and Sociology at Harvard University Law School. Professor Koenig recently returned to Northeastern after a leave at the University of Budapest, Hungary.
Office: 513 Holmes Hall
Telephone: (617) 373-3854
E-mail: t.koenig@neu.edu
Stephen Nathanson
Professor of Philosophy
Moral and Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Law
B.A. Swarthmore College; Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University /> Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University
Fields of Special Interest Fields of Special Interest Ethics, Political Philosophy, War and Peace, Economic Justice
Stephen Nathanson is Professor of Philosophy at Northeastern University. He holds a B.A. from Swarthmore College, a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Johns Hopkins University, and is the author of numerous books and articles on ethical aspects of legal and political issues.
His books include An Eye for an Eye?--The Immorality of Punishing by Death (Rowman and Littlefield, 2nd ed., 2001); Should We Consent to be Governed?--A Short Introduction to Political Philosophy (Wadsworth, 2nd ed., 2000.); Patriotism, Morality, and Peace, (Rowman and Littlefield, 1993); and Economic Justice, (Prentice-Hall, 1998).
He is also the editor of John Stuar Mill, Principles of Political Economy (Hackett, 2004).
Office: 373 Holmes Hall
Telephone: (617) 373-4169
Email: s.nathanson@neu.edu
Stephanie Pollack
Professor of Practice in Law, Policy and Society
Stephanie Pollack is a Senior Research Associate at the Center for Urban and Regional Policy and an adjunct professor at Northeastern University School of Law.
Until 2004, Pollack was a senior attorney at the Conservation Law Foundation (CLF), New England�s leading environmental advocacy organization. In her career at CLF, spanning more than two decades, Pollack worked on a range of environmental and urban issues including environmental health, smart growth and sustainable development, affordable housing, and transportation and transit policy and planning. During this time she became a nationally-recognized expert on childhood lead poisoning and helped to found two national non-profit organizations that addressed lead poisoning and healthy housing. In the late 1990s Pollack launched CLF�s Greater Boston Institute, which worked for responsible and community-sensitive review of proposed development projects and improved and expanded transit in metropolitan Boston.
Pollack is also a consultant with BlueWave Strategies in Boston, a consulting firm which advises clients on smart growth, transit-oriented development, brownfields redevelopment and other �green� real estate projects.
Pollack received her JD from Harvard Law School (1985), where she served as an editor on the Harvard Law Review and Executive Editor on the Harvard Environmental Law Review. After law school she clerked for Chief Judge Patricia M. Wald of the federal court of appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Pollack received both a BS in Mechanical Engineering and a BS in Public Policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1982).
Michael Tolley
Associate Professor of Political Science
Public Law, Judicial Process, Comparative Constitutionalism, American Politics
Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University
Selected Publications:
- Freedom, Rule of Law, and Democracy in the United States and Britian. Aldershot, England: Dartmouth Publishing Co., 2002
- American Government: Conflict, Compromise and Citizenship. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2000 (with Christopher J. Bosso and John H.Portz)
- Courts of Admiralty in Colonial America: The Maryland Experience, 1634-1776. Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 1995 (with David R. Owen)
- State Constitutionalism in Maryland. New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1992
- "Coercive Federalism and the Search for Constitutional Limits." Publius: The Journal of Federalism 25 (1995) (with Bruce A. Wallin)
- "The Impact of Form on Substance: Court Reform and the Work of the Maryland Court of Appeals." Justice System Journal 15 (1992)
- "Maryland and Its Anglo-Legal Inheritance." Journal of Legal History 11 (1990)
Selected Professional Activities:
- Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College, Oxford University, 1996-1997
- European Law Prize, United Kingdom Association for European Law, 1995
- National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Seminar, "Constitutionalism in Comparative Perspective," Notre Dame Law School, 1993
- Young Scholar's Award, International Political Science Association, 1989
Office: 311 Meserve Hall
Telephone: (617) 373-2780
Fax: (617) 373-5311
Email: m.tolley@neu.edu
Gregory Wassall
Associate Professor of Economics
Cultural Economics, Taxation and Public Policy
Ph.D. Rutgers University
Professor Wassall�s fields of interest are Public Economics and Microeconomics. He received his bachelor's degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and his doctoral degree from Rutgers University.
Office: 305 Lake Hall
Telephone: (617) 373-2196
Email: g.wassall@neu.edu
AFFILIATED FACULTY
Affiliated LPS faculty teach courses of interest to LPS students and serve on dissertation committees.
Mary Ballou
Professor; Director, Counseling Psychology MS Program
Developmental Psychology and Gender
Counseling Psychology, Rehabilitation and Special Education
Ph.D., Kent State University
Certification
Licensed Psychologist
Fellow APA & MPA
Diplomate ABPP
Specializations
Feminist psychology
Health psychology
Major Research Areas
Dr. Ballou's research focuses on developing a feminist orientation to psychology. Through her publications and professional work, she has made contributions to feminist therapy process, a feminist analysis of the mental health system in the United States, and feminist perspectives on personality theory and psychopathology.
Dr. Ballou continues to develop the ecological model and is currently exploring its implications for interventions and for epistemology. She is an author of A Feminist Approach to Mental Health, Personality and Reappraisals, Health Counseling and Psychological Strategies: A Guide to Interventions, as well as multiple chapters and articles. Dr. Ballou provides consultation and therapy in a medical clinic and has a private practice in feminist counseling.
Office: 206 Lake Hall
Telephone: (617) 373-5937
Fax: (617) 373-8892
Email: m.ballou@neu.edu
Martha F. Davis
Professor of Law
Harvard University, AB 1979
Trinity College, Oxford University, MA 1981
University of Chicago, JD 1983
Professor Davis teaches Women and the Law; Immigration; Employment Discrimination; and Professional Responsibility. Prior to joining the law faculty in 2002, she was vice president and legal director for the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund. As a women's rights practitioner, she was counsel in a number of cases before the US Supreme Court, including Nguyen v. INS, a challenge to sex-based citizenship laws that Professor Davis argued before the court. Professor Davis has also served as a fellow at the Bunting Institute and as the inaugural Kate Stoneman Visiting Professor of Law and Democracy at Albany Law School. In 2003, she received a Soros Reproductive Rights Fellowship; her project focused on the potential for sub national activism using international human rights norms.
Professor Davis has written widely on women's rights, poverty and human rights. Her book, Brutal Need: Lawyers and the Welfare Rights Movement, received the Reginald Heber Smith Award for distinguished scholarship on the subject of equal access to justice, and was also honored by the American Bar Association in its annual Silver Gavel competition. Professor Davis sits on the boards of directors of the Welfare Law Center and the Workers Rights Law Center.>/p>
Office: 35 Cargill Hall Tel: (617) 373-8921 Fax: (617) 373-5056 E-mail: m.davis@neu.edu
Daniel Faber
Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of Graduate Studies.
Environmental Sociology, Political Economy, Central America, Social Theory.
Ph.D University of California at Santa Cruz
Daniel Faber is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Northeastern University. His research is focused in the areas of political economy and crisis theory, environmental sociology and policy, social movements, classical and contemporary social theory, environmental justice, philanthropy, Cental America and underdevelopment, and globalization. He co-founded and worked as Research Director for the Enviromental Project on Central America (EPOCA), Earth Island Institute (1984-90), and has published numerous works on the political ecology of Central America. He is also a co-founding editor of the international journal, Capitalism, Nature, Socialism (CNS), and a participating editor with Latin American Perspectives. He is the author of Environment Under Fire: Imperialism and the Ecological Crisis in Central America (Monthly Review Press, 1993), recognized by Choice Magazine as an "1993 Outstanding Academic Book of the Year on Latin America." His most recent work is concerned with the problems of environmental injustice and equity in America, and includes the edited collection, The Struggle for Ecological Democracy: Environmental Justice Movements in the United States (Guilford Press, 1998).
Dr. Faber currently serves as Director of the Philanthropy and Environmental Justice Research Project at Northeastern University, and recently produced a major report, Green of Another Color, funded by the Aspen Institute and the university which assessed relations between the foundation community and the U.S. environmental justice movement. He recently co-authored another major study entitled, Unequal Exposure: A Report on Environmental Injustices in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (see reports section on Professor Faber's research page).
Dr. Faber is currently working on a new book, Globalization, Neoliberalism, and Environmental Justice Policy in the New Millennium, as well as an edited collection on critical perspectives on philanthropy and social movements. He is a board member of the Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow (AHT), a coalition of scientists, health professionals, environmental advocates, and labor unions working for a precautionary approach to environmental policy in Massachusetts.
Office: 509 Holmes Hall
Telephone: (617) 373-2878
Email: dannyfaber@comcast.net
Daniel J. Givelber
Professor of Law
Harvard University, AB 1961, LLB 1964
Professor Givelber served as dean of the law school from 1984 until 1993, and was interim dean during the 1998-1999 academic year. He is an expert in the areas of criminal law, criminal procedure and torts, and has been engaged in pro bono death penalty litigation for many years.
Professor Givelber has taught and published primarily in the areas of criminal law, criminal procedure, practical skills and torts. In recent years, his research has focused on the accuracy of the procedures we employ to determine guilt. Prior to joining the law school faculty, he served as an assistant US attorney for the District of Columbia and as a civil litigator with a large New York law firm.
Office: 22 Cargill Hall Tel: (617) 373-4298 Fax: (617) 373-5056 E-mail: d.givelber@neu.edu
Robert Hall
African-American History, Colonial America
Ph.D. Florida State University
Robert L. Hall has been an Associate Professor of African-American Studies at Northeastern University since 1989, and has been jointly appointed with History since 1998. Among the numerous fellowships he has held are: in research at the Center for the Study of Civil Rights and Race Relations/Oral History Program at Duke University; a postdoctoral fellowship at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History; and a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies. In the summer of1991, he was a fellow at Harvard University’s W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research. In addition to his full-time positions at the Florida State University (Tallahassee) and the University of Maryland at Baltimore County in Catonsville, he has held the following visiting posts: Andrew W. Mellon Visiting Instructor at Rice University; the Commonwealth Professor of History at George Mason University; and Visiting Associate Professor of Afro-American Studies at Yale University. He was the Chairperson of the Department of Afro-American Studies at Northeastern University from 1998-2001.
He is co-editor of Holding on to the Land and the Lord: Kinship, Ritual, Land Tenure, and Social Policy in the Rural South (1982), the editor of Making a Living: The Work Experience of African-Americans in New England (1995), and the editor of Viewpoints on the Early African-American Past (1995). His singly authored book, Do, Lord, Remember Me: Religion and the Forging of African-American Culture in Florida, 1565-1940, is under contract at the University Press of Florida. Professor Hall has been active in many professional associations across several disciplines, including: the Association of Social and Behavioral Scientists, the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, the Southern Conference on African American Studies, the Association of Third World Studies, and the Organization of American Historians. His current book project is a cultural history of the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
Office: 132 Nightingale Hall
Telephone: (617) 373-2621
Email: r.hall@neu.edu
Michael Handel
Associate Professor of Sociology
Ph.D. Harvard University
Professor Handel's areas of Research/Interest are in Economic Sociology, Sociology of Work, Organizations, and Labor Markets, Social Stratification
Selected Publications:
2006, The Effect of Participative Work Systems on Employee Earnings, Research in the Sociology of Work (vol. 16).2005, Worker Skills and Job Requirements: Is There a Mismatch?. Economic Policy Institute. Washington, D.C.
2005, Trends in Perceived Job Quality, 1989-1998, Work and Occupations (32:66-94)
2004, Is There a Wage Payoff to Innovative Work Practices? (with Maury Gittleman) Industrial Relations 43:67-97.
2004, The Effects of New Work Practices on Workers (with David I. Levine). Industrial Relations 43:1-43.
2002, The Sociology of Organizations: Classic, Contemporary, and Critical Readings, Michael J. Handel, editor and author. Sage Publications.
Office: 539 Holmes Hall
Telephone: (617) 373-3620
Email: m.handel@neu.edu
Daryl Hellman
Professor of Economics and Graduate Coordinator
Law and Economics
Ph.D. Rutgers University
Professor Daryl A. Hellman is Professor and Graduate Coordinator in the Department of Economics at Northeastern University. Her areas of interest include urban economics, the economics of crime, and urban and regional planning.
Professor Hellman has been at Northeastern University since 1972 and served for ten years as a senior administrator at the university. She has published numerous articles in her areas of interest and has written a number of books, including The Economics of Crime: Theory and Practice, a textbook which she has co-authored with Professor Neil Alper. Professor Hellman holds a BS degree in Business Administration from Bucknell University and a Ph.D. in Economics from Rutgers University. She is a member of the Board of Directors of Eastern Bank.
Office: 306 Lake Hall
Telephone: (617) 373-7517
Email: d.hellman@neu.edu
Dr. Christopher E. Hopey
Vice President and Dean
School of Professional and Continuing Studies
Northeastern University
Dr. Christopher Hopey is the Vice President and Dean for the School of Professional and Continuing Studies and an Associate Professor of Education. He has broad oversight of various academic units including, the School of Professional and Continuing Studies, the Lowell School for Engineering Technology, the Executive and Professional Development Division, Online Education, the World Language Center, and the School of Education. His research foci are adult learning and higher education. He is the author of numerous journal articles and a frequent speaker at national conferences. Prior to joining Northeastern, Dr. Hopey was Vice Dean at the Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and a bachelor�s and master�s degree from Northeastern University.
Patricia Illingworth
Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion
Professional Ethics and Health Care
JD, Ph.D. University of California, San Diego
Fields of Special Interest
Medical Ethics, Ethics, Philosophy of Law, Social and Political Philosophy.
Patricia Illingworth is an Associate Professor at Northeastern University with expertise in both philosophy and law. She teaches courses in medical and business ethics, bioethics, and health policy and law. She is a member of the Human Rights Committee of the Massachusetts Health Center and the Ethics Committee of the Mount Auburn Hospital, both affiliated with Harvard Medical School.
Professor Illingworth has written two books, AIDS and the Good Society (Routledge 1991) and Trusting Medicine: The Ethics of Managed Care (under review), and she is also co-editing (with Wendy Parmet) a textbook, entitled Ethical Healthcare forthcoming with Prentice Hall in 2005. Professor Illingworth has published a number of articles in scholarly journals on professional ethics, the ethics of managed care and other issues that overlap business and medical ethics. She has held fellowships at both Harvard Medical School and Harvard Law School. Professor Illingworth has been admitted to the Massachusetts Bar.
Office: 361 Holmes
Telephone: (617) 373-4167
Email: p.illingworth@neu.edu
William Kay
Associate Professor of Political Science
Public Policy and Administration, Science and Technology Policy
Ph.D. Indiana University
Areas of Study: Public Policy and Administration, Organization Theory, Science and Technology Policy
Selected Publications:
- Can Democracies Fly in Space? The Challenge of Revitalizing the U.S. Space Program. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1995
- "Space Policy Redefined: Ronald Reagan and the Commercialization of Space." Journal of Business and Economic History 27:1 (Fall 1998)
- "John F. Kennedy and the Two Faces of the U.S. Space Program, 1961-1963." Presidential Studies Quarterly 28:3 (Summer 1998)
- "U.S. Science and Technology Policy and the Production of Federally Funded Aeronautical Research and Technology" in Thomas E. Pinelli (ed), Knowledge Diffusion in the U.S. Aircraft Industry: Perspectives, Findings, and Improvement. Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1997 (with Vicki L. Golich and Thomas E. Pinelli)
Selected Professional Activities:
- President, American Political Science Association Organized Section on Science, Technology, and Environmental Politics, 1995-2000
- Moderator, �Commercial Space Policies of the 1980s: A Retrospective Examination,� Oral History Forum, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Washington, DC, November 1, 1999
- 1997 NASA Budget Authorization, testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Science, Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, 104th Congress, 2nd session, Washington, DC, April 17, 1996.
- Invited Participant, Workshop on Fusion Energy Policy, U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, Washington, DC, June 8, 1994
- Editor, Science, Technology, and Environmental Politics
Office: 329 Meserve Hall
Telephone: (617) 373-4401
Fax: (617) 373-5311
Email: w.kay@neu.edu
Jack Levin
Professor of Sociology
Sociology of Violence and Conflict, Gerentology
Ph.D. Boston University
Jack Levin is the Irving and Betty Brudnick Professor of Sociology and Criminology and the director of the Brudnick Center on Conflict and Violence at Northeastern University, where he teaches courses in prejudice and violence. He has authored or co-authored 26 books, including Mass Murder: America's Growing Menace, Overkill: Mass Murder and Serial Killing Exposed, Hate Crimes Revisited, The Will to Kill: Making Sense of Senseless Murder, The Violence of Hate, and Why We Hate.
Dr. Levin has also published more than 150 articles in professional journals, such as Criminology, Justice Quarterly, Youth and Society, and Journal of Interpaersonal Violence, and newspapers, such as The New York Times, Boston Globe, Dallas Morning News, Philadelphia Inquirer, Christain Science Monitor, Chicago Tribune, and USA Today.
Dr. Levin was honored by the Massachusetts Council for the Advancement and Support of Education as its "Professor of the Year." He has spoken to a wide variety of community, academic, and professional groups, including the White House Conference on Hate Crimes, the Department of Justice, the Department of Education, and the International Association of Chiefs of Police.
Office: 569 Holmes Hall
Telephone: (617) 373-4983
Email: jlevin1049@aol.com
Mary Loeffelholz
Associate Professor of English, Department Chair
19th Century American Literature, Critical Theory
Ph.D. Yale University
Editor, Studies in American Fiction
- Research areas and interests: American literature, women writers, gay and lesbian cultural studies, transatlantic romanticisms
- Selected publications: Dickinson and the Boundaries of Feminist Theory; Experimental Lives: Women and Literature, 1900-1945; From School To Salon: Reading Nineteenth-Century American Women's Poetry (forthcoming 2004); "Who Killed Lucretia Davidson? or, Poetry in the Domestic-Tutelary Complex" in the Yale Journal of Criticism; "History as Conjugation: Stein's Stanzas in Meditation and the Literary History of the Modernist Long Poem" in Gendered Modernisms: American Women Poets and Their Readers; "Poetry, Slavery, Personification: Maria Lowell's 'Africa'" in Studies in Romanticism; "'Question of Monuments': Emerson, Dickinson, and American Renaissance Portraiture" in Modern Language Quarterly; "The Burning Bed: Calle Vision" in Women's Studies (special issue on Adrienne Rich).
Office: 405 Nightingale Hall
Telephone: (617) 373-3687
Email: m.loeffelholz@neu.edu
Daniel J. McCarthy
Professor of Business Management
Management Systems, Business-governmental Relations
D.B.A. Harvard University
Professor McCarthy is the Patrick and Helen Walsh Research Professor in the College of Business Administration at Northeastern University. He has also held the Philip R. McDonald professorship for teaching excellence, and has served as Associate Dean as well as Director of the Graduate School of Business Administration. He is the co-director and co-founder of the High-Technology MBA Program, recently ranked #1 in the US. He teaches and conducts research in strategic management, high technology businesses, and international business emphasizing Russia. He is a Fellow at the Davis Center for Russian Studies at Harvard University.
Dr. McCarthy was ranked one of the top two scholars internationally in business and management in Russia, the former Soviet Union, and Eastern Europe based on a study of publications in leading journals from 1986-2000. His more than 50 publications include numerous articles in leading management journals. His books include four editions of Business Policy and Strategy, two editions of The Business Policy Game, as well as Business and Management in Russia, and The Russian Capitalist Experiment, and the forthcoming Corporate Governance in Russia. In the private sector, Dr. McCarthy participated in the start-up of two small, public high-tech companies during the 1970s, serving as President of one, and as a member of the Board of Directors of both. He also worked as a production manager for Johnson & Johnson Corporation. He has consulted extensively in the US and Europe for more than 40 companies, served on the boards of six, and currently serves as a corporate director of Clean Harbors Inc. He holds BA and MBA degrees from Dartmouth College and a DBA from Harvard University.Office: 313 Hayden Hall
Telephone: (617) 373-4758
Email: da.mccarthy@neu.edu
Steven A. Morrison
Professor and Chair Transportation Economics
Steven A. Morrison is Professor and Chair in the Department of Economics at Northeastern University. He is also the Managing Editor of the Journal of Transport Economics and Policy. During 1998-99, he was a member of the Congressionally mandated National Academy of Sciences (Transportation Research Board) Committee for a Study of Competition in the U.S. Airline Industry. Before coming to Northeastern in 1982, he was an Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia. He has also held visiting positions at Harvard, MIT, the London School of Economics, and the Brookings Institution. Morrison is the author of numerous articles on transportation economics and air transportation and he is co-author (with Clifford Winston) of The Economic Effects of Airline Deregulation (1986) and The Evolution of the Airline Industry (1995), both published by the Brookings Institution. He has written many op-ed pieces for newspapers and has testified before Congress on airline competition matters on numerous occasions. In 2003 the Transportation and Public Utilities Group of the American Economic Association (TPUG) presented him with its "Distinguished Member" award, which is given to members "who have made significant contributions to the field and to the Transportation and Public Utilities Group during their careers." Morrison received a B.A. in Economics from the University of Florida and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley.
Office: 301 Lake Hall
Telephone: (617) 373-2872
Email: s.morrison@neu.edu
Peter C. Murrell, Jr.
Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Urban Education
Peter C. Murrell, Jr. is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Urban Education at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in human learning, cognitive development, and identity development . Dr. Murrell's research focuses upon academic identity and racial identity development with respect to school achievement in urban schools and communities. He has published four books and numerous articles and book chapters on quality urban education. His most recent book on identity and learning entitled Race, Culture and Schooling: Identities of Achievement in Multicultural Urban Schools was published by Lawrence Erlbaum in June.
Carl Nelson
Associate Professor and Group Coordinator
General Management
Health Care Management and Policy
Ph.D. University of Manchester
Carl W. Nelson, Associate Professor, General Management Group. Professor Nelson holds a BS from Cornell University, an MBA from Columbia University, and a PhD from the University of Manchester, England. Before joining the faculty of the College of Business Administration, he was an assistant professor at Boston University and a visiting lecturer at the Manchester Business School. He is the author of Operations Management in the Health Services (North Holland) and co-editor of Value Conflicts in Health Care Delivery (Ballinger).
In 1987, Professor Nelson was cited as a Distinguished Professor by California State University for his contributions to the field of operations management and health care services. He has served as visiting associate professor of health systems management at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and as visiting associate professor in the Health Policy and Management Department of the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health.
Professor Nelson currently teaches in the areas of operations management, health care management and corporate social responsibility.
Office: 319 Hayden Hall
Telephone: (617) 373-4751
Email: ca.nelson@neu.edu
Richard O'Bryant
Science and Technology Policy and politics, Urban
and Regional studies and Politics, Urban and Community Technology,
and Community -Based Research.
Ph.D. MIT
Richard O'Bryant is an assistant professor of political science at Northeastern University and a senior research fellow at the Center for Urban and Regional Policy. His courses include Science, Technology and Public Policy, Urban Policies and Politics, Current Issues in Cities and Suburbs and Economic Institutions and Analysis. His recent publications include Low-Income Communities: Technological Strategies for Nurturing Community, Empowerment and Self-Sufficiency at a Low-Income Housing Development, a monograph published in 2005 in the W.K. Kellogg Foundation?s National Forum on Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Higher Education for the Public Good, and a review of Media Access: Social and Psychological Dimensions of a New Technology Use, published in February 2005 in the New Media and Society Journal. His current research interests are information technology and civic, social, and political participation.
Professor O'Bryant served as co-principal investigator of the Camfield Estates/MIT Project, funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, that included making wireless connectivity available to residents of Camfield Estates, located in Roxbury, Massachusetts. His professional experience also includes serving as a senior software engineer at Digital Equipment Corporation (now HP-Compaq). He was one of five recipients of the 2002-2003 National Rising Scholars Award to Advance Research on Higher Education for the Public Good. He is a long-time member of the Concerned Black Men of Massachusetts, a volunteer organization that works with young black males on positive self-development. In 1997 and 1998 Richard served as fellow in MIT's renowned Community Fellows Program. He received his undergraduate degree in computer systems engineering from Howard University and a Ph.D. in urban and regional studies from MIT in 2004.
Office: 377 Meserve Hall
Telephone: (617) 373-4397
Fax: (617) 373-5311 (fax)
Email: obryant@neu.edu
Kwamina Panford
Comparative Economic Development and Labor Policy
Ph.D. Northeastern University, LPS Program
Vice-Provost and Chair, African-American Studies Program
Experience: Educator, Senior Administrator and Consultant Outreach Activities: Liaison for African/Ghanaian Community in the US, National Model African Union, Study Abroad to Africa and Trainer/Facilitator for Educational Tours to African countries Field research: Numerous African Countries and a UN agency in Switzerland concerning African government participation Language Proficiency: English, Akan/Twi & French Percentage of Time Dedicated to African Studies: 75% Research/Teaching Specializations: African/International Economic, Social & Political Development, Human Rights/Democracy and the Roles of International Organizations (The African Union & UN Agencies) with special emphasis on Africa/Ghana Courses: Africa Today, Model African Union, Contemporary Government/Politics of Africa, Third World Political Relations Recent Publications: IMF-World Bank & Labor’s Burdens in Africa: Ghana’s Experience (Praeger, 2001); Review Essays on African/Ghanaian Economy, Society and Politics and International Affairs
Office: 347 Meserve Hall
Telephone: (617) 373-4333
Email: k.panford@hotmail.com
Wendy E. Parmet
Professor of Law
J.D., Harvard University, 1982
Wendy E. Parmet is the George J. and Kathleen Waters Matthews Distinguished Professor of Law at Northeastern University. She is the Program Director of of the Law School's dual degree J.D. and M.P.H. program in association with the Tufts University School of Medicine. She teaches Public Health Law, Health Law, Disability Law, Bioethics, Torts, and Constitutional Law.
Professor Parmet has published numerous articles in medical journals and law reviews on public health law, constitutional law, health care access, and disability law. She was co-counsel for the plaintiff in the Supreme Court's first HIV case, Bragdon v. Abbott. Professor Parmet is on the Board of Editors of the Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics, and the Board of Directors of the Public Health Advocacy Institute and Health Law Advocates. She received her J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1982 and her B.A. from Cornell University in 1979.
Office: 77 Cargill Hall
Telephone: (617) 373-2019
Fax: (617) 373-5056
Email: w.parmet@neu.edu
Glenn Pierce
Criminal Justice Policy Research
Ph.D. Northeastern University
Glenn Pierce is the Principal Research Scientist in the Center for Criminal Justice Policy Research. He served as Director of the Division of Academic Computing from 1991-1999, and also as Co-Director of the Center for Criminal Justice Policy Research from 1994-1999. A large part of his research is devoted to issues such as the death penalty, gun control and information technology. Among his publications and reports are: "The Role of Victim's Race and Geography on Death Sentencing: Some Recent Data from Ilinois" (with Michael Radelet) in Race and the Death Penalty (NU Press, 2004); "The Role and Consequences of the Death Penalty in American Politics" (with Michael Radelet), NYU, Review of Law and Social Change, Vol. XVIII, Number 3, 1990-1991; "The Bartley-Fox Gun Law's Short-Term Impact on Crime in Boston" (with William J. Bowers), The Annals AAPSS, Vol. 455, May 1981; and "Connecting the Community: Using Information Technology to Leverage Community Assets" (with Gordana Rabrenovic) in Social Capital and Social Citizenship, (Lexington Books, 2003).
His participation in recent conferences in many parts of the country span many topics, with his presentations on "Variations in Illegal Gun Markets Across Urban Communities: Implications for Public Policy" at the Second International Conference on Urban Health in New York, in October of 2003; "Fears and Careers: The Role of Intra-group Political Dynamics in Inter-group Conflict" at the International Society of Political Psychology Annual Meeting, Boston, 2003; and he delivered his "Presentation and Demonstration of Prototype Firearm Violence Intelligence System" at the Project Safe Neighborhoods 2003 National Conference in Philadelphia. Professor Pierce has also written various information technology related reports and citations, such as "Northeastern University Network Design Review," an evaluation of the current and future design of Northeastern University's 12,000 node data communications, sponsored by IBM Global Services in 1998.
Office: 204 Churchill Hall
Telephone: (617) 373-3702
Email: g.pierce@neu.edu
Gordana Rabrenovic
Organizations, Urban Sociology, the Family
Ph.D. State University of New York at Albany
Gordana Rabrenovic is Associate Professor of Sociology and Education and Associate Director of the Brudnick Center on Violence and Conflict at Northeastern University. Her substantive specialties include community studies, urban education and inter group conflict and violence.
Her publications include Women and Collective Action in Urban Neighborhoods,The Dissolution of Yugoslavia: Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Exclusionary Communities, From Consumers to Co-Producers: Charter Schools and Education Reform in Massachusetts and Spreading the Wealth: Economic Partnership and Community Development. She is also author of the book Community Builders: A Tale of Neighborhood Mobilization in Two Cities (1996) and co-editor of the book Community Politics and Policy (1999) and the American Behavioral Scientist special issue on Hate Crimes and Ethnic Conflict (2001). She is currently studying racial disparities in suspensions and expulsions from public schools.
571 Holmes Hall
Telephone: (617) 373-4998
Email: g.rabrenovic@neu.edu
Nicole Rafter
Feminist Issues in Law, Women in the Criminal Justice System
Ph.D. State University of New York, Albany
Professor Emerita of Criminal Justice
A pioneer in the field of gender and justice and the history of biological theories on crime, Dr. Rafter is an international scholar, widely published and cited throughout the field of criminal justice and criminology. Having taught since 1977, Dr. Rafter left her full-time faculty position in 1999 to intensively pursue her research. After living in Rome and Venice for some time, she has returned to the United States to continue writing and teaching. Currently, she maintains her strong ties to Northeastern University as a Senior Research Fellow. While at the College of Criminal Justice, Dr. Rafter will teach in one of her areas of expertise, including biological theories of crime, and crime and film.
Currently, Dr. Rafter is working on three major books, the first of which is due out late in 2003 through Duke University Press. This work, Criminal Women, co-edited with Professor Mary Gibson of John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City, will be both a re-translation and resource guide to Cesar Lombroso's seminal work, La Donna Delinquente, originally written in 1895. A second book is a re-translation of Criminal Man, also by Lombroso. Both of these re-translations are expected to dramatically re-interpret Lombroso's theoretical work.
Office: 204 Churchill Hall
Telephone: (617) 373-3327
Email: n.rafter@neu.edu
Susan Setta
Associate Professor of Religious Studies.
Ph.D Pennsylvania State University
Fields of Special Interest
American Religion and Culture, Biomedical/Religious Ethics, Sociology of Religion, Biblical Studies, Women and Religion
Office: 371 Holmes Hall
Telephone: (617) 373-7699
Email: s.setta@neu.edu
Andrew M. Sum
Andrew M. Sum is Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University in Boston. He has authored or co-authored numerous articles, monographs, and books on regional, national, and state labor markets. Also included are writings on labor market behavior and the problems of young adults and the role of education, literacy, and training in influencing the labor market experience of adults.
Among Dr. Sum's publications are Towards a More Perfect Union: Basic Skills, Poor Families, and Our Economic Future (1988), The Subtle Danger: Reflections on the Literacy Abilities of Young Adults (1987), Poverty and Adolescence (1991), From Dreams to Dust (1996), Literacy in the Labor Force: Results from the National Adult Literacy Survey (1998), State of the America Dream in New England (1996), Young Workers, Young Families, and Child Poverty (1996), he Road Ahead: Emerging Threats to Workers, Families and the Massachusetts Economy (1998), and A Second Chance for the Fourth Chance: A Critique of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (1999).
Office: 315 Holmes Hall
Telephone: (617) 373-2242
Email: a.sum@neu.edu
Bruce Wallin
Associate Professor
Ph.D University of California, Berkeley
Bruce Wallin is Associate Professor of Political Science, specializing in budget and tax policy. His book, From Revenue Sharing to Deficit Sharing, won the 1999 American Political Science Association award for Best Book on Urban Politics. He recently was symposium editor for the Public Budgeting and Finance issue on "Tax and Expenditure Limitations; A Quarter Century after Proposition 13." Professor Wallin has recently completed a study for the Brookings Institute on "City Fiscal Pressure and Response," and is in the process of writing a book on the impact of the tax revolt on American politics and policy.
He has served as Head Advisor in the Department of Political Science, and on the Section Councils for the American Political Science Association Sections on Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations, and Urban Politics. He was a Fullbright lecturer in Prague in 2001.
Office: 339 Meserve Hall
Telephone: (617) 373-4405
Fax: (617) 373-5311
Email: b.wallin@neu.edu
Lucy A. Williams
Professor of Law
Baylor University, BA 1969
University of Chicago, JD 1974
A nationally recognized authority on welfare law and low-wage labor, Professor Williams focuses on the dependency created in low-wage labor relationships, and how the political rhetoric connecting "dependency" with receipt of welfare has diverted attention from the structural issues within low-wage labor markets. She has a long and impressive record as both an academic and a litigator in the areas of unemployment insurance, Social Security and related welfare programs. Prior to joining the Northeastern faculty, she was an attorney with the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute for 12 years. Professor Williams teaches in the area of social welfare law, and has written articles for publications including the Yale Law Journal and Politics and Society. In 1994-1995, she was honored by the school as the Public Interest Distinguished Professor.
Office: 37 Cargill Hall Tel: (617) 373-4537 Fax: (617) 373-5056 E-mail: lu.williams@neu.edu
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