membership book 2021-2022
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Membership Book 2021-2022
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Leadership ................................................................................................................... 1
Bienen School of Music ................................................................................................. 3
Feinberg School of Medicine ......................................................................................... 4
Kellogg School of Management .................................................................................. 13
McCormick School of Engineering .............................................................................. 16
Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications ............... 20
Northwestern Emeriti Organization ............................................................................ 22
Northwestern University in Qatar ............................................................................... 23
Pritzker School of Law ................................................................................................ 24
School of Education and Social Policy ......................................................................... 25
School of Communication .......................................................................................... 26
University Libraries ..................................................................................................... 29
Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences ....................................................................... 30
Affiliated Faculty ........................................................................................................ 38
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LEADERSHIP
Robert Holmgren, Ph.D.
President
Molecular Biosciences [email protected] 847-491-5460
Dr. Robert Holmgren’s laboratory studies Hedgehog signal transduction, which plays a central role in
animal development and human disease. The focus of the lab is the identification and characterization
of new pathway components. Their approach is to use an in vivo RNAi suppressor/enhancer screen to
discover candidate genes, which are then validated and studied to determine how they function within
the pathway.
Ceci Rodgers
President-Elect
Non-Tenure Eligible Member
847-467-7393
Ceci Rodgers is an assistant professor and director of global journalism learning at Northwestern
University’s Medill School of Journalism and president-elect of the Faculty Senate. Rodgers teaches
business and economics reporting courses, as well as video journalism and basic writing and reporting to graduate and undergraduate
students. She is the faculty adviser for the student chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists and leads the school’s global
academic programs. Prior to Medill, Rodgers spent nearly two decades as a business correspondent and anchor for CNN and CNNfn,
reporting from Chicago, Washington, D.C., New York, and Tokyo. Her stories have appeared on CNBC, NBC, Reuters Insider,
nationally syndicated TV show Business Week Weekend and the PBS show CEO Exchange. Previously, she was the Chicago bureau
chief for Knight Ridder Financial News, and a reporter and weekend anchor at WIFR-TV in Rockford, Illinois. The Freedom Forum
Foundation awarded Rodgers a year-long fellowship in Asian studies in 1991. She won the National Commission on Working Women’s
Spot News Feature award for her story on women working in Chicago’s trading pits; the Peabody Award for CNN’s continuous
coverage of the 1987 Stock Market Crash, and CEO Exchange’s 2007 Clarion Award for best national TV talk show. She has lectured
at Jinan University in Guangzhou, China and taught multimedia reporting in Pakistan. Rodgers has a bachelor’s degree in
communication studies from Northwestern University, and a master's degree in journalism from Medill.
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Therese McGuire, Ph.D.
Past President
Strategy, Kellogg School of Management
847-491-8683
Therese J. McGuire is Professor of Strategy at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern
University. She has been a faculty member at Kellogg since 2002 and has held various administrative
positions, including Director of the Real Estate Program, Chair of the Strategy Department, and Senior
Associate Dean for Curriculum and Teaching. McGuire's areas of expertise are state and local public finance,
fiscal decentralization, and regional economic development. McGuire was President of the National Tax Association in 1999-2000, as well
as the editor of the NTA's academic journal, the National Tax Journal from 2001 until 2009. McGuire has a B.A. with a dual major in
Mathematics and Economics from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University.
3
BIENEN SCHOOL OF MUSIC
John Thorne, M.M.
Music Performance
847-491-7228
John Thorne is an Associate Professor of Flute at Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music. He
joined the Bienen School faculty after having been the Associate Principal Flute of the Houston
Symphony from 1992 until 2012. Currently, Mr. Thorne is a substitute flutist with the Chicago Symphony
Orchestra. He also performs with the Chicago Philharmonic as principal flutist.
Sarah Bartolome, Ph.D.
Music Studies
847-491-8948
Sarah Bartolome (G02) previously held the position of assistant professor of music education at Louisiana
State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She holds a BM in voice performance and music education from
Ithaca College, an MM in music education with a concentration in voice performance and pedagogy from
Northwestern University, and a PhD in music education from the University of Washington. Her research
interests include children’s musical culture, ethnomusicology, choral culture from a global perspective,
service-learning in higher education, and music teacher preparation. She has published articles in such journals as the Journal of
Research in Music Education, Research Studies in Music Education and the Music Educators Journal.
Anne Waller, M.M.
Chair, Non-Tenure Eligible Committee
Non-Tenure Eligible Member
847-491-4769
Anne Waller has toured for over thirty-five years as a soloist, chamber musician, and member of the
Waller and Maxwell Guitar Duo. Ms. Waller joined the faculty of the Bienen School of Music in 1985 and
established the classical guitar program one year later. She specializes in the exploration and performance of works for nineteenth-
and early twentieth-century guitars on historical instruments. Ms. Waller has been presented in a wide variety of festival, concert,
and radio venues, and has performed, lectured and taught master classes at colleges and universities throughout the United States
and Europe. She has made recordings for the Music from Northwestern Series and Berto Records. She is the founding Artistic Director
of the Segovia Classical Guitar Series.
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FEINBERG SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
John Patrick F. Bebawy, M.D.
Anesthesiology
312-695-0061
Dr. John Bebawy’s clinical and research interests and expertise relate to Neuroanesthesia, with a focus
on interventions that affect cerebral blood flow and cerebrovascular hemodynamics. Dr. Bebawy
completed his Anesthesiology residency and Neurosurgical Anesthesiology fellowship training at
Northwestern in 2008, where he is currently faculty, Associate Director of the Neurosurgical
Anesthesiology Fellowship Program, and Director of Neurosurgical Anesthesia Education.
Clara Peek, Ph.D.
Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics
312-503-6973
Clara Peek is an Assistant Professor at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in the
Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics and Medicine-Endocrinology. Dr. Peek received
her B.S. degree in Bacteriology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Ph.D. in Biochemistry at
The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She completed her K01-funded postdoctoral training in the
Department of Medicine-Endocrinology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. In
2018, Dr. Peek established her research group which focuses on how molecular circadian clocks control responses to nutrient stress
in skeletal muscle fibers and stem cells. The overarching goal of the laboratory is to advance our understanding of circadian timing
in metabolic physiology and disease.
Tom Hope, Ph.D.
Cell & Molecular Biology
312-503-1360
Over the past 25 years, Dr. Hope’s laboratory has been a pioneer of the use of cell biology and other
imaging approaches to study HIV providing unique insights into HIV biology with images and movies of
the virus interacting with cells and tissues. He is one of the founders of the discipline of HIV Cellular
Virology. His team has developed a series of imaging tools and approaches utilizing different imaging
modalities including PET/CT, bioluminescence, light sheet microcopy, standard and super-resolution
fluorescence microscopy, and electron microscopy to study HIV related mucosal immunology, HIV transmission, and HIV
Prevention Science.
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Raj Chovatiya, M.D.
Dermatology
312-695-8106
Raj Chovatiya, M.D., Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Dermatology at the Northwestern University
Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois. Dr. Chovatiya received his M.D. and Ph.D. from Yale
University. He completed his internship at Yale followed by residency and postdoctoral research
fellowship at Northwestern, where he also served as Chief Resident. Dr. Chovatiya directs the Eczema
and Itch clinic at Northwestern, and his clinical focus includes atopic dermatitis, eczema, chronic itch, and other chronic
inflammatory skin disorders including psoriasis, hidradenitis, immunobullous disease, and vitiligo. Dr. Chovatiya’s research
interests include patient-reported outcomes, health services research, epidemiology, implementation science, and translational
therapy. He has published numerous abstracts and manuscripts and been recognized for his research at national and international
conferences.
Amy Kontrick, M.D.
Emergency Medicine
312-694-7000
Dr. Amy Kontrick is an emergency medicine doctor in Chicago, Illinois and is affiliated with Northwestern
Memorial Hospital. She received her medical degree from University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
and has been in practice for more than 20 years. She is one of 83 doctors at Northwestern Memorial
Hospital who specialize in Emergency Medicine.
Katherine Wright, Ph.D.
Family and Community Medicine
312-503-4630
Dr. Wright's research examines the effectiveness of health and education policy measures while considering the
mediating and moderating factors that influence population metrics. Within this context, she has also developed
new methodological approaches to account for missing data, and has extensively analyzed large scale data such as
the Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) and the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES).
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Celia O’Brien, Ph.D.
Medical Education
312-503-3888
Dr. Celia O’Brien is Assistant Professor of Medical Education and the Director of Assessment and Program
Evaluation in the Augusta Webster, MD, Office of Medical Education (AWOME). She completed her
doctorate in Higher Education at the University of Arizona in 2011. Dr. O’Brien’s research and most recent
publications focus on student assessment, competency-based medical education, and related issues in the undergraduate medical
training environment. Within AWOME she is responsible for MD program student assessment systems and for the evaluation of
curricular outcomes. She is also a faculty tutor for problem-based learning coursework.
Courtney Blackwell, Ph.D.
Medical Social Sciences
Dr. Blackwell is a developmental methodologist with expertise in early childhood education and survey
development, particularly child- and parent-reported health outcomes measures. Her research focuses on
early learning and positive health development, and the complex social environmental factors that
contribute to such outcomes. Fundamental to her work is an emphasis on conducting research that
informs health and education policy and practice. She is currently an integral member of the Person
Reported Outcome (PRO) Core for the NIH-funded Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) research program.
Joshua M. Hauser, M.D.
Chair, Social Responsibility Committee
Medicine
312-503-3478
Joshua Hauser, M.D., is Associate Professor of Medicine (Palliative Care) at the Buehler Center on Aging,
Health and Society, Institute for Public Health and Medicine. He directs the palliative medicine fellowship
at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and is Palliative Care Section Chief at the Jesse Brown (Chicago) VA
Medical Center. After graduating Harvard Medical School, Dr. Hauser completed his residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and
a fellowship in health services research and medical ethics at the University of Chicago. Dr. Hauser’s research focuses on patient and
family communication, palliative care, and hospice.
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Jonathan Leis, Ph.D.
Microbiology-Immunology
312-503-1166
Jonathan Leis is a Professor of Microbiology-Immunology and the Senior Associate Dean for Research
for the Office of Finance and Administration at the Feinberg School of Medicine. His work focuses on
retrovirus replication, reverse transcription, integration, virus assembly mechanisms, and molecular genetics.
Kevin Swong, M.D.
Neurological Surgery
312-695-7746
Dr. Swong is a neurosurgeon who specializes in disorders of the spine and peripheral nerves. His specialties include minimally invasive spine surgery, treatment of tumors of the spine and peripheral nerves, peripheral nerve decompression, and brachial plexus reconstruction. He takes a whole-patient approach and looks at all factors that may affect his patients.
Elena Grebenciucova, M.D.
Neurology
312-695-1100
Dr. Grebenciucova's researches multiple sclerosis treatments, specifically focusing on the effects of aging on the
immune system. According to her findings, immunosenescence as a concept is directly relevant to the world of
neuro-inflammation, as it may be a contributing factor to the risks associated with some of the current
immunosuppressive and immunomodulatory therapies used in treating multiple sclerosis (MS) and other
inflammatory disorders.
Lois Hedman, P.T., D.Sc.P.T.
Non-Tenure Eligible Member, Feinberg School of Medicine
312-908-6782
Dr. Lois Hedman is interested in developing the basic requirements of walking into a clinical tool to guide
examination and intervention. She is also interested in describing, measuring and intervening in balance
dysfunction post-stroke. Third, Dr. Hedman is interested in the development of clinical decision making
in PT students.
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Christina Lewicky-Gaupp, M.D.
Obstetrics and Gynaecology
312-472-3874
Dr. Lewicky-Gaupp specializes in minimally invasive surgical approaches to complex gynecologic and
pelvic floor disorders, including urinary and fecal incontinence, pelvic organ prolapse (cystocele,
rectocele), and uterine fibroids; complications after childbirth (bowel and bladder fistulas, 3rd and 4th
degree lacerations); congenital anomalies of the GU tract.
Carol Schmidt, M.D.
Ophthalmology
312-695-8150
Dr. Schmidt joined the Department of Ophthalmology at Northwestern 2001 after several years in
private practice in Long Grove, Barrington, and Glenview, IL. Clinically, she see patients for a wide range
of ophthalmic issues, such as detection of glaucoma, screening for diabetic retinopathy and macular
degeneration, evaluation for ocular complications of long-term systemic medications, as well as ocular
mid margin disease, dry eye, and cataracts. Her research interests have included surgical simulation in
undergraduate and graduate medical education specifically, skill development which I pursued as a Searle Fellow.
David Kalainov, M.D.
Orthopedic Surgery
312-337-6960
Dr. Kalanov is an orthopedic surgeon, hand surgeon and Medical Director of Musculoskeletal at
Northwestern Memorial Hospital; Kellogg EMBA graduate; Feinberg faculty NUvention Medical; Co-
Chair Northwestern Medicine Value Analysis Committee, Orthopedic Health System Clinical
Collaborative, and Systemwide Pain Management Committee.
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Jing Zheng, Ph.D.
Otolaryngology
312-503-3417
Dr. Jing Zheng received her Ph.D. from Michigan State University. Her lab aims to identify and
investigate molecules that play important roles in mammalian hearing, thus to enrich our understanding
of cochlear physiology, and to further develop a better strategy to prevent hearing loss.
Madina Sukhanova, Ph.D.
Pathology
312-503-8144
Madina Sukhanova is an Assistant Professor of Pathology at the Northwestern University Feinberg School
of Medicine. She finished the Clinical Cytogenetics and the Clinical Molecular Genetics ABMGG fellowships
at the University of Chicago Medical Center. Her research interests include identification of genetic
markers of prognostic and diagnostic significance in various types of cancer with particular interest in the
area of hematologic malignancies. Her papers have been published in journals such as Leukemia, Blood Advances and American
Journal of Clinical Pathology. Dr. Sukhanova teaching skills in clinical pathology were recognized when she received Clinical Pathology
Golden Apple Award in 2020 (recipient selected by trainees for excellent teaching skills, promotes trainee scholarship, investment in
trainee education).
Robert Newmyer, M.D.
Pediatrics
312-503-3211
Dr. Robert Newmyer is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in the Critical Care unit.
Dai Horiuchi, Ph.D.
Pharmacology
312-503-4085
The primary goals of my research group are to understand the mechanisms of deadly disease progression
in breast cancer and identify efficacious targeted therapeutic strategies that can be evaluated clinically.
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The Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Department is currently holding an election.
The Physiology Department is currently holding an election.
Ana Maria Acosta, P.T., Ph.D.
Physical Therapy & Human Movement Sciences
312-503-2950
My research interests are in understanding the cause for movement impairments following stroke from
a neurophysiological and biomechanical perspective and develop physical and robotics-based
interventions to address these impairments. I have been involved in the development of a rehabilitation
robot that is now being used in a clinical trial targeting acute stroke participants to address their arm
movement impairments early on. I am also very involved in DEI initiatives in my department, TGS through the NUIN graduate
program and NUCATS. I am deeply committed to improving the experience of our students of minoritized backgrounds and making
Northwestern a place where they feel a strong sense of belonging.
Nicholas Soulakis, Ph.D.
Preventive Medicine
312-908-7914
Nicholas Soulakis is a public health scientist whose research focus lies at the intersection of epidemiology and
informatics with an emphasis on understanding the expanding, data-rich environment created by health
information technology and leveraging computationally intensive analytical techniques to monitor healthcare
quality and ultimately improve population health outcomes. His current work is an expansion into the newly
emerging field of quality informatics and patient outcomes; seeking to better understand the ascertainment of healthcare networks and
developing a more comprehensive scientific approach to understanding the dynamics of care coordination for hospitalized patient populations.
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Christina Boisseau, Ph.D.
Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Dr. Boisseau is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Her research focuses on
anxiety and obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders using translational research methods to identify
critical, transdiagnostic mechanisms of dysfunction and barriers to recovery. She an original coauthor of
the Unified Protocol for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders and maintains a clinical practice focused on the treatment
of OCD and anxiety disorders.
Tarita Thomas, M.D., Ph.D., M.B.A
Radiation Oncology
tarita. [email protected]
Tarita Thomas, MD, PhD, MBA is a board-certified radiation oncologist and Associate Professor of
Radiation Oncology at the Feinberg School of Medicine. Dr. Thomas' research is focused on lung cancer,
head and neck cancer as well as neurologic cancer. She is also interested in quality and process
improvement in cancer care. She has been involved with national committees for developing clinical
trials aimed at improving outcomes for patients. She serves as the medical student clerkship director. Dr.
Thomas is a member of the American Society for Radiation Oncology, the American College of Radiation Oncology, the American
Society of Clinical Oncology and the American Medical Association. She has served in multiple capacities in these organizations in
order to improve patient care as well as support research and education in oncology.
Dasha Perchesky, M.D.
Radiology
312-695-5753
Dr. Dasha Perchesky specializes in diagnostic neuroradiology.
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Swati Kulkarni, M.D.
Surgery
312-695-0990
Dr. Swati Kulkarni, Professor of Surgery at Northwestern University, received her Doctor of Medicine degree
from the Medical College of Pennsylvania, completed her General Surgery residency at New York Presbyterian
Hospital, Weill Medical College of Cornell University and completed a Breast Surgical Oncology Fellowship at
Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine. Prior to returning to Northwestern, she was an Assistant Professor
of Surgery and Oncology at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center and an Associate Professor at University of Chicago Pritzker School of
Medicine. Dr. Kulkarni is an active clinical and translational researcher. Her research focuses on the relationship between obesity and
breast cancer risk, tamoxifen resistance, and identifying novel agents to treat and prevent breast cancer. She is currently the PI of an NCI-
funded multicenter Phase II study to evaluate the protective effect of a tissue selective estrogen complex (Duavee) in women with newly
diagnosed Ductal Carcinoma in Situ.
Shilajit Kundu, M.D.
Urology
312-908-8145
Dr. Kundu is an Associate Professor of Urology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
His clinical and research interests are in urologic oncology. He has successfully conducted and published
on prospective evaluations of patients with urologic cancers including prostate, bladder, kidney and
testicular cancer and found that the impact of cancer treatment goes beyond physical limitations
associated with treatment. His recent research aims to understand the complexities associated with
patient expectations. This includes balancing factors associated with patient satisfaction including patient personality, physician-
patient relationship, information-processing style, and a comforting experience with the health care environment.
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KELLOGG SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT
Linda Vincent, M.B.A., Ph.D.
Accounting Information & Management
847-491-2659
Linda Vincent is an Associate Professor in the Accounting Information and Management department. Prior to
joining Kellogg in 1999, Professor Vincent was an Associate Professor at the University of Chicago Graduate
School of Business. Professor Vincent’s research interests are in the areas of financial reporting and capital
markets with a focus on business combinations, divisive restructurings, real estate, pensions, and the
informativeness of financial reporting data for securities returns under different information environments and capital structures. Professor
Vincent has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Accounting and Economics, Accounting Horizons, and the Journal of Accounting
Research. She is an ad hoc reviewer for The Accounting Review; Contemporary Accounting Research; Journal of Accounting, Auditing and
Finance; Real Estate Economics; Review of Accounting Studies; and the Review of Financial Studies. Professor Vincent was awarded the
Faculty Impact Award in 2017; Chairs’ Core Course Teaching Award in 2000; and the Sidney J. Levy Teaching Award in 2001, 2003, and 2007.
She received an MBA in Accounting and Finance from Kellogg and a PhD in Accounting from Northwestern University.
Ravi Jagannathan, M.B.A., Ph.D.
Finance
847-491-8338
Dr. Ravi Jagannathan is the Chicago Mercantile Exchange/John F. Sandner Professor of Finance at
Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, Co-Director of the Financial Institutions and
Markets Research Center at the Kellogg School, and the Chair of the Advisory Committee on Investment
Responsibility. Ravi has served on the editorial boards of leading academic journals, and is a former
executive editor of the Review of Financial Studies. Ravi's research interests are in the areas of asset pricing, capital markets, and
financial institutions. His articles have appeared in the Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Finance,
and Review of Financial Studies, and other leading journals.
Noshir Contractor, Ph.D.
Management and Organizations
847-491-3669
Noshir Contractor is the Jane S. & William J. White Professor of Behavioral Sciences in the McCormick School of
Engineering & Applied Science, the School of Communication and the Kellogg School of Management. He is the
Director of the Science of Networks in Communities (SONIC) Research Group. He is investigating factors that
lead to the formation, maintenance, and dissolution of dynamically linked social and knowledge networks in a
wide variety of contexts including communities of practice in business, translational science and engineering communities, public health
networks and virtual worlds.
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Nabil Al-Najjar, Ph.D.
Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences
847-491-5426
Al-Najjar's research focuses on the development of learning-based models of decision making in
markets, games and contracts. His papers have been published in top scholarly journals such the Journal
of Economic Theory, Games and Economic Behavior, Journal of Political Economy, Econometrica, among
others. For his excellence in teaching, Al-Najjar has twice been the recipient of the school's Sidney J. Levy
Award, in 1996-97 for his class in microeconomics, and 2006-07 for his class in competitive strategy. He
has also received the Chairs' Core Teaching Award for his class in microeconomics, as well as several Certificate of Impact awards. Al-
Najjar received his PhD in Economics from the University of Minnesota. Prior to joining the Kellogg faculty in 1995, he was a faculty
member at the University of Quebec in Montreal.
Angela Lee, Ph.D.
Marketing
847-467-5334
Angela Y. Lee is the Mechthild Esser Nemmers Professor of Marketing at the Kellogg School of
Management. Angela is a consumer psychologist. Her expertise is in consumer learning, emotions and goals.
Her research focuses on consumer motivation and persuasion, cross-cultural consumer psychology, and
nonconscious influences of memory on judgment and choice. She was the recipient of the 2006 Stanley Reiter
Best Paper Award for her research on self-regulation and persuasion, and the 2002 Otto Klineberg Award for
best paper on international and intercultural relations. Angela is a Fellow of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology, a Fellow of the
American Psychological Society, and a Past President of the Association for Consumer Research. She is the Editor-In-Chief of the Journal of
the Association for Consumer Research, an associate editor at the Journal of Consumer Psychology, and serves on the editorial boards of
the Journal of Consumer Research, the Journal of Marketing Research.
Martin Lariviere, Ph.D.
Chair, Budget and Planning Committee
Operations
847-491-8169
Martin Lariviere joined the faculty at the Kellogg School in 2000. His research has focused on applying
economic analysis to operations management problems. He has been a member of the editorial boards of
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Management Science, and Operations Research. He has
held a number of leadership positions in the Manufacturing and Service Operations Society. He is a
Distinguished Fellow of the MSOM Society and a recipient of the Saul Gass Expository Writing Award.
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For Senator Therese McGuire of Strategy , see Leadership above.
Mark McCareins, J.D.
Non-Tenure Eligible Member
847-467-5150
R. Mark McCareins is a Clinical Professor of Business Law in the Strategy Department where he teaches
courses on Antitrust and Competition, Business Law, and Non-Profit Governance and Organization. Mark is
also Co-Director of the JD/MBA program at Kellogg. Mark received a Student Impact Award for his teaching
of Business Law in the fall quarter of 2016 and served as the Co-Chair of the Kellogg Vertical Merger
Conference in January 2019.
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McCORMICK SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
Hao Zhang, Ph.D.
Chair, Salary & Benefits Committee
Biomedical Engineering
847-491-2946
Dr. Hao Zhang’s research focuses on biomedical optics, including optical coherence tomography, super-resolution microscopy, ophthalmic imaging, and molecular imaging. He received his doctorate from Texas A&M University.
Luis Amaral, Ph.D.
Chemical and Biological Engineering
847-491-7850
Amaral conducts and directs research that provides insight into the emergence, evolution, and stability
of complex social and biological systems. His research aims to address some of the most pressing
challenges facing humanity, including the mitigation of errors in healthcare settings, the
characterization of the conditions fostering innovation and creativity, or the growth limits imposed by sustainability. Professor
Amaral has published over 170 scientific peer-reviewed papers in leading scientific journals. Those papers have been cited in excess
of 24 thousand times. His research has been featured in numerous media sources, both in the US and abroad.
Marco Nie, Ph.D.
Civil & Environmental Engineering
847-467-0502
Dr. Nie’s primary interest is to better understand and predict the behavior of transportation networks,
and to formulate new design and control strategies to improve mobility, reliability and sustainability of
these systems. Unlike other networks such as communication and social networks, the behavior of a
transportation network depends on the interactions between human activities (travel choice and driving behavior), physical
characteristics of the infrastructure and network topology. As a result, Dr. Nie’s analyses of transportation systems take an
interdisciplinary approach that draws on tools from optimization, network science, traffic flow theory, economics, and statistics.
His research covers various aspects of transportation systems analysis, ranging from developing specialized routing algorithms to
designing Pareto-improving congestion pricing schemes. Despite their diversity, most problems that I have been working on
address research questions that not only are of theoretical interest but also promise relevant real-world impacts.
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Sara Sood
Computer Science
847-491-5078
Sara Owsley Sood is the Chookaszian Family Teaching Professor (Professor of Instruction) and
Associate Chair for Undergraduate Education in Computer Science. She earned her Ph.D. in Computer
Science at Northwestern in 2007. From 2007 to 2014, she was an Assistant, then Associate Professor at
Pomona College. Her research was situated in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, on understanding the expression and
impact of emotion in online communication. In moving back to Northwestern in 2014, Sood’s focus shifted to teaching introductory
Computer Science. She is especially dedicated to increasing the participation of under-represented groups in computer science.
Thrasos Pappas, Ph.D
Electrical & Computer Engineering
847-467-1243
Hermann Riecke, Ph.D.
Chair, Faculty Handbook Committee
Engineering Science & Applied Mathematics
847-491-8316
Dr. Riecke’s research interests are mostly in the area of computational neuroscience. One focus is
plasticity mechanisms and how they restructure neuronal networks. Dr. Riecke is particularly fascinated
by the role of feedback from higher brain areas in the restructuring of networks and the information processing performed by the
networks resulting from it, as it is observed in the olfactory system. To gain insight into these phenomena he investigates networks
of simplified neuron models. Another focus is the coherent dynamics of networks of simple and more complex neurons, which
underlie the rhythmic activity observed in many brain areas. In work on the retina he has focused on biophysically detailed neuron
models. A second area of interest has been the study of spatially extended dynamical systems with focus on pattern formation.
Specific topics investigated have been bifurcation theory with symmetry, spatially localized patterns, complex patterns, and spatio-
temporal chaos.
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Jill Wilson, Ph.D.
Industrial Engineering & Management Sciences
Jill Hardin Wilson is a Professor of Instruction and the Assistant Department Chair in IEMS. She is the Director of Undergraduate Studies for the BS in Industrial Engineering, the Co-Director of the McCormick undergraduate Minor in Data Science & Engineering, and on the faculty of the Master of Engineering Management program. She has spent her career working towards the improvement of STEM curriculum, teaching, and advising. Jill received her PhD in Algorithms, Combinatorics, and Optimization from Georgia Tech.
Robert Chang, Ph.D.
Materials Science and Engineering
Dr. Chang’s research group focuses unconventional solar cell design, fabrication and analysis, nanostructured carbon sheets, tubes and molecules, photonic crystals, amorphous semiconducting oxide films, and nanostructured plasmonic materials in the infrared.
Cheng Sun, Ph.D.
Mechanical Engineering
847-467-0704
Dr. Sun’s primary research interests are in the fields of Emerging applications of nano-electronics,
nanophotonics, nano-electromechanical systems and nano-biomedical systems necessitate
developments of viable nano-manufacturing technologies. His research group is engaged in developing
novel nano-scale fabrication techniques and integrated nano-system for bio-sensing and high-efficiency
energy conversion.
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Casey Ankeny, Ph.D.
Non-Tenure Eligible Member
847-467-7435
Casey J. Ankeny, PhD is an Associate Professor of Instruction and Director of MS Program in Biomedical
Engineering. Casey received her bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of
Virginia and her doctorate degree in Biomedical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology and
Emory University where she studied the role of shear stress in aortic valve disease. Currently, she is investigating cyber-based
student engagement strategies in flipped and traditional biomedical engineering courses. She aspires to understand and
improve student attitude, achievement, and persistence in student-centered courses which employ standards-based grading
and reflection.
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MEDILL SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM, MEDIA, INTEGRATED MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS
Judy Franks
Integrated Marketing Communications
847-467-2067
IMC Lecturer Judy Franks joined the Medill IMC faculty in 2008 following a 23-year career in Chicago’s
leading ad agencies, where she rose to the executive ranks across both the media and creative strategy
disciplines. She teaches undergraduate Media and Message Delivery, graduate Media Economics and
Technology and undergraduate Consumer Insight, and she serves as the Faculty Advisor for graduate
students pursuing a concentration in Media Strategy. Franks teaches across Medill's full-time, part-time
and online programs. With extensive experience in corporate training and development, Franks also develops executive education
programs for Medill IMC.
Kalyani Chadha
Journalism (Graduate)
847-467-4337
Kalyani Chadha is an associate professor of journalism at Medill. Her research is primarily centered around
the examination of journalistic practice as well as the societal implications of new media technologies in
varied contexts. Informed by critical and sociological theorizing, her scholarship is international in its
orientation, with a particular emphasis on journalism-related developments in India and media
globalization in Asia. Her recent work focuses on the implications of the rise of right-wing media in India.
Additionally, she is also co-editing a collection on journalism and precarity. Chadha’s work has appeared in a variety of journals such
as Journalism Studies, Journalism Practice, Digital Journalism, Journal of Media Ethics, the International Journal of Communication
and Media, Culture and Society, as well as several edited anthologies and encyclopedias. Chadha currently serves on the editorial
boards of Journalism Practice and Digital Journalism and is head of the Mass Communication and Society Division of the Association
for Communication in Journalism and Mass Communication.
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Caryn Ward
Journalism (Undergraduate)
847-467-7689
Caryn Ward is an associate professor at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. She teaches
both graduate and undergraduate students and specializes in teaching video journalism and multimedia.
She is also an opinion writer and has been published in the Chicago Tribune, Al Jazeera, Huffington Post and
other media outlets. Ward writes about a variety of subjects, from feminism to politics and pop culture as
well as collegiate and Olympic wrestling. Before joining the faculty at Medill, Ward spent more than 25 years
in various news jobs at local television stations across the country. She’s worked as a reporter, producer, executive producer,
managing editor and news director. Ward has won five Emmy awards for her work in television news. Ward has her master’s degree
in journalism from Medill and a liberal arts degree from Smith College.
For Senator Ceci Rodgers, the NTE representative for Medill School of Journalism, see Leadership above.
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NORTHWESTERN EMERITI ORGANIZATION
Richard Cohn, M.D.
Pediatrics
312-312-6160
Dr. Cohn came to Northwestern University as a pediatric nephrologist in 1980 where he worked at
Children’s Memorial Hospital, now Lurie Children’s Hospital for 34 years. He was Medical Director of the
Kidney Transplant Program for over 20 years, supervising care for almost 400 children. Dr. Cohn’s other
interests were childhood nephrotic syndrome and hypertension. He retired from clinical care in 2014 and is
now Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics.
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NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY IN QATAR
João Queiroga
Communication Program (NU-Q)
João Queiroga is a Portuguese award-winning filmmaker and educator. As a director, his work screened at
the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), Hot Docs Canadian International
Documentary Festival, British Film Institute (BFI), DocLisboa and many others. His hybrid documentary film
“Our Skin” was recently nominated for an Iris Award and won the Lili Award. He has also worked for several
non-profit organizations, such as Cinema/Chicago and the Chicago International Film Festival, as well as Fortune 500 companies as
an editor and cinematographer. Additional experience includes assignments with Chicago Filmmakers, the Beijing International
Movie Festival, WGN-TV Chicago and Cannes International Film Festival. He is a Calouste Gulbenkian scholar, a Hoffman scholar, a
Davis UWC scholar, and a Fulbright recipient. Most recently, Queiroga served as the Chair of the Post-Production Department at New
York Film Academy. He is currently an Assistant Professor in Residence at Northwestern University in Qatar.
Abraham Abusharif, Ph.D.
Journalism (NU-Q)
Ibrahim N. Abusharif, Ph.D., is an associate professor in residence at NU-Q, in the journalism and strategic
communication program. His academic interests include the study of the intersections of religion and
media, particularly digital media disruptions and religious authority. He also researches the origins,
promulgation, and effects of key journalistic framing terminologies used in prominent Western print news
sources for Middle East events and ongoing affairs. (As an example, you may access here Parsing “Arab
Spring,” a study of the phrase “Arab Spring,” its implications, usages, spread, and origins.) Currently, he is examining the usages of
“Salafism” and “Islamism” in popular media and in academia.
James Hodapp, Ph.D.
Liberal Arts (NU-Q)
James Hodapp is an assistant professor in residence in the Liberal Arts Program specializing in African,
world, and postcolonial literatures. Hodapp received his PhD from the University of Maryland, his MA from
the University of Chicago, and his BA from the American University. Before joining NU-Q in Fall 2018, he
served as an assistant professor in the department of English for four years at the American University of
Beirut. He has also taught at the University of Maryland, Harold Washington College, Wilbur Wright College,
and several other universities and colleges.
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LAW SCHOOL
Clint Francis, J.D.
Law Instruction
312-503-8340
Clint Francis is a tenured member of the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law faculty, where
he has been on the faculty since 1978. He teaches and researches in the areas of Corporate
Restructuring/Bankruptcy, Commercial Law, Intellectual Property, Intellectual Capital Management,
and Medical Innovation. 2015-2018 he served, on behalf of Northwestern, as the Founding Dean of
Hamad bin Khalifa University Law School, a member of Qatar Foundation. Professor Francis obtained
his initial legal training in New Zealand, where he completed LLB and LLM degrees, and was admitted as a Barrister and
Solicitor of the New Zealand Supreme Court. He subsequently completed a Doctorate in Law at the University of Virginia
School of Law.
Allan Horwich, J.D.
Chair, Committee on Cause
Non-Tenure Eligible Member
312-503-3230
Allan Horwich has practiced law with Schiff Hardin for more than 45 years, where he maintains a limited
role in serving clients and in administration. Allan has taught at Northwestern Pritzker School of
Law since 1999 (full-time since 2009). His teaching focuses on compliance and litigation under the
securities laws. His practice was concentrated in securities litigation and securities and corporate counseling.
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SCHOOL OF EDUCATION AND SOCIAL POLICY
James Rosenbaum, Ph.D.
Education & Social Policy
847-491-3795
Education researcher James Rosenbaum's current major area of research concerns the college-for-all
movement, college attendance and coaches, high-school-to-work transitions, and linkages among
students, schools, and employers. For two decades, he conducted an extensive research project on the
effects of relocating poor inner-city black families in public housing to subsidized housing in the white
middle-class suburbs of Chicago. This quasi-natural experiment, known as the Gautreaux Program, has enabled him to study the
effects of these moves on children's educational outcomes and job opportunities, as well as the social and economic effects on the
mothers. These studies encouraged the federal government to create its Moving to Opportunity (MTO) program, implemented by
the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. A specialist in research on work, education, and housing opportunities,
Rosenbaum has published six books and numerous articles on these subjects.
Lilah Shapiro, Ph.D.
Non-Tenure Eligible Member
847-467-3815
Lilah Shapiro is a qualitative sociologist whose research focuses broadly on the intersections
among race/ethnicity, religion, social class/social location and identity in the contemporary American
context. Her work explores how each of these constructs affect individual and group identity and
experience more broadly (e.g. self-concept, gender roles, family dynamics, cultural and educational
investment, etc.) both at individual stages of development and across the life course. A particular interest is in examining how group
or master narratives shape individual life stories and exploring who has the power to determine the course and content of a
narrative. She holds a Ph.D. in Human Development from the University of Chicago and is a former fellow at the Martin Marty Center
for the Advanced Study of Religion.
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SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATION
Beverly Wright, Ph.D.
Communication Sciences & Disorders
847-491-2453
Beverly Wright and her students explore the general principles of auditory learning, a process that
leads to dramatic improvements in perceptual skills. The lab seeks to identify the circumstances that
are necessary for learning to occur as well as those that disrupt learning. These principles are examined
using stimuli ranging from simple sounds to speech, and tasks ranging from fine-grained discrimination
to categorization and intelligibility.
Ellen Wartella, Ph.D.
Communication Studies
Ellen Wartella is an internationally recognized scholar of the influence of media and technology on children’s health and development. She has authored or coauthored more than 200 publications in this area and has received various awards for her work including at Northwestern University the Ver Steeg career award, a Career Productivity Award from the International Communication Association where she is also a Fellow, the Distinguished Scholar Award from the National Communication
Association, a Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Minnesota, and an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from St. Vincent College.
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Mary Zimmerman, Ph.D.
Performance Studies
847-491-3623
Mary Zimmerman is a writer and director for the theater. She is a member of the Lookingglass Theatre
Company and is an Artistic Associate of the Goodman Theatre. She has earned national and
international recognition in the form of numerous awards, including a MacArthur
Fellowship. Metamorphoses, for which she received the Tony Award for Best Direction, was developed
at Northwestern. Other acclaimed works include The Steadfast Tin Soldier, The White Snake, Journey to the West, The Odyssey, The
Arabian Nights, The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, and Eleven Rooms of Proust. She is the director and co-librettist of the 2002
opera Galileo Galilei, music by Philip Glass, at the Goodman Theatre, and director of Lucia di Lammermoor, La Sonnambula, Armida
and Rusalka at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Zimmerman's interests lie in the adaptation of literary texts for performance
and directing theatre.
Kyle Henry, MFA
Radio/Television/Film
Kyle Henry is a filmmaker and Assistant Professor who teaches within the MFA for Documentary Media
and undergraduate programs. His fiction feature films Room and Fourplay premiered at Sundance and
Cannes' Director's Fortnight film festivals. He’s edited eleven fiction and documentary features for
other directors, including the Emmy Award winning PBS documentary Where Soldiers Come From. His
latest feature fiction film Rogers Park was both a New York Times and Los Angeles Times critics pick, and
is available for viewing via most major streaming services.
Julie Marie Myatt
Theatre
Julie Marie Myatt is a lecturer in the Department of Theatre. Her plays have been produced at Oregon
Shakespeare Festival, The Kennedy Center, Guthrie Theatre, South Coast Repertory, Magic Theatre
and Cornerstone Theatre, among others. She has had commissions from Roundabout Theatre, Denver
Center Theatre Company, Yale Rep, Cornerstone Theatre Company, ACT Seattle, and South Coast
Repertory. Myatt received a Walt Disney Studios Screenwriting Fellowship, a Jerome Fellowship, a McKnight Advancement Grant,
and was the Mellon Foundation Playwright-in-Residence at South Coast Repertory 2013-2016. She is an alumna of New Dramatists.
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Belma Hadziselimovic
Non-Tenure Eligible Member
847-491-2403
Belma Hadziselimovic is a speech-language pathologist who has worked across a variety of settings,
including private practice, inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation, and early intervention. Her primary
clinical interests lie in the area of acquired neurogenic disorders of language and cognition.
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UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES
Gina Petersen
Librarian
847-491-2176
Gina Petersen is the Assessment Librarian for Northwestern University Libraries. Her research explores
the impact library staff, services, and interfaces have on research and teaching. In addition she evaluates
library and campus programming. She earned her MS in Library and Information Science from the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Steven Adams, M.S.
Chair, Student Affairs Committee
Librarian
847-467-2511
Steven M. Adams is Librarian for The Graduate School (TGS), Communication Sciences and Disorders,
Psychology, and Counseling. Steven has an additional appointment as the Faculty Mentor for the 7th class
of Posse Scholars and is Co-Chairing the NU Change Makers Review Committee. Steven also serves as
Board Chair for the Black Metropolis Research Consortium. Previously, he was the Biological and Life Sciences Librarian and Interim
Psychology Librarian at Princeton University. Steven earned a B.A. in Biology in 1998 and an M.L.S. in 2000 from Clark Atlanta
University.
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WEINBERG COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES
Marquis Bey, Ph.D.
African-American Studies
Marquis Bey's (they/them, or any pronoun) work focuses on blackness and fugitivity, transness, and black
feminist theory. Bey is particularly concerned with modes of subjectivity that index otherwise ways of
being, utilizing blackness and transness—as fugitive, extra-ontological postures—as names for such
otherwise subjectivities. These two analytics (rather than endowments of the epidermis or specific bodily
morphologies) are the axes around which Bey thinks about subjectivity formation and deformation,
abolition, and political work. Currently, Bey is at work of multiple projects. Forthcoming with Duke
University Press is Bey’s monograph Black Trans Feminism, which attempts to theorize the convergence of blackness, transness, and
black feminism via the Black Radical Tradition, critical theory, and contemporary literature. Additionally, forthcoming with University
of Minnesota Press’s Forerunners series is Bey’s short text The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Gender, which deeply meditates
on Nahum Chandler’s work, putting into conversation his thinking on paraontologpy and desedimentation with the transness and
gender nonnormativity of transgender studies. Lastly, Bey is in the early stages of a collection of autotheory essays meditating on
the relationship between blackness and the category of cisgender, tentatively entitled Cistem Failure.
The Anthropology Department is currently holding an election.
Hannah Feldman, Ph.D.
Art History
Hannah Feldman is Associate Professor of Art History and core faculty in Middle Eastern and North
African Studies as well as Comparative Literary Studies. Her research, teaching, and advising center on
late modern and contemporary art and visual culture. Her first book, From a Nation Torn: Decolonizing
Art and Representation in France (Duke, 2014), has been reviewed in over ten national and
international publications, including Art Journal, Art Bulletin, and The American Historical Review. The book revises accounts of
mid-century French aesthetics to argue for the centrality of decolonization to the contemporaneous theorization of urban space,
photography, the public, spectacle, and the very project of writing history. Research for this project was supported by grants and
fellowships from the Getty Research Institute, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, the
Andrew W. Mellon Art History Publication Initiative, and the Canadian Center for Architecture.
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Pamela Bannos, M.F.A.
Art Theory & Practice
847-491-8774
Pamela Bannos is an artist and researcher who explores the links between visual representation, urban
space, history, and collective memory. Her recent projects include investigations of Chicago’s Lincoln
Park and the grounds of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. She also exhibits photographic
works. Bannos has a BA in psychology and sociology from Drake University and an MFA in photography
from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her 2017 book, Vivian Maier: A Photographer’s Life and
Afterlife, is published by the University of Chicago Press. Bannos has taught photography in the department of art theory and practice
since 1993.
Thomas Gaubutz, Ph.D.
Asian Languages and Cultures
847-491-2766
Thomas Gaubatz is a scholar of early modern Japanese literature, media, and society. His current project
examines the ways in which literary representations of the townsman served to contain tensions,
contradictions, and hierarchies emerging in urban society between the mid-17th and mid-18th century.
Thomas received his Ph.D. in Japanese Literature from Columbia University in 2016.
Regan Thomson, Ph.D.
Chair, Faculty Rights and Responsibilities Committee
Chemistry
847-467-5963
Regan J. Thomson was born in New Zealand in 1976, and received his Ph.D. in 2003 at The Australian
National University. Following postdoctoral studies at Harvard University, he joined the faculty at
Northwestern University in 2006 where he is currently Professor of Chemistry. Regan’s research interests
include natural product synthesis and discovery, and atmospheric chemistry. He is the recipient of an NSF CAREER Award, an Amgen
Young Investigator Award, and an Illinois Division American Cancer Society Research Scholar Award.
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Taco Terpstra, Ph.D.
Classics
847-491-8039
Taco Terpstra is a socioeconomic historian of ancient Rome. His core research focuses on Roman long-
distance trade, specifically on the question of how merchants organized their business to overcome the
problems posed by preindustrial conditions. He is the author of Trading Communities in the Roman
World: A Micro-Economic and Institutional Perspective (Brill, 2013) as well as a number of articles on
Roman trade. His teaching includes courses on Roman economic history and the archaeology of Roman Campania.
The Earth and Planetary Science Department is currently holding an election
Joseph Ferrie, Ph.D.
Economics
847-491-3616
Joseph Ferrie is an economic historian who uses micro-level longitudinal data to study economic
mobility. Using data from census manuscripts, passenger ship records, tax lists, and city directories, he
has compared mobility in Britain, the United States and France from the 1850s to the present. He is also
interested in determining the link between early-life circumstances and later life outcomes, and the
migrant from rural areas to cities and towns. He is a research associate of the National Bureau of
Economic Research.
Barbara Newman, Ph.D.
English
847-491-5679
Professor Newman (Ph.D. Yale) is known for her work on medieval religious culture, comparative literature,
and women's spirituality. Her most recent books are a translation of Mechthild of Hackeborn's The Book of
Special Grace (2017) and Making Love in the Twelfth Century (2016). She is also the editor/translator
of Thomas of Cantimpréé: The Collected Saints' Lives (2008), and the author of Medieval Crossover: Reading the Secular against the
Sacred (2013), Frauenlob's Song of Songs: A Medieval German Poet and His Masterpiece (2006), God and the Goddesses: Vision,
Poetry, and Belief in the Middle Ages (2003), and From Virile Woman to WomanChrist: Studies in Medieval Religion and
Literature (1995), as well as three books on Hildegard of Bingen: an edited volume, Voice of the Living Light: Hildegard of Bingen and
Her World (1998); an edition and translation of Hildegard's collected songs, Symphonia Armonie Celestium Revelationum (1988, rev.
1998); and Sister of Wisdom: St. Hildegard's Theology of the Feminine (1987).
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The French and Italian Department is currently holding an election.
The German Department is currently holding an election.
David Schoenbrun, Ph.D.
History
847-491-7278
David Schoenbrun (Ph.D., UCLA, 1990) has been learning, teaching, and writing about Africa since 1978.
He is the author of two books and numerous articles and the Co-Executive Producer of two films. He
works with historical linguistics, archaeology, paleoecology and biogeography, oral traditions,
comparative ethnography, and more conventional documentary sources to study East Africa’s earlier
history.
Jennifer Cole, Ph.D.
Linguistics
847-491-7020
Jennifer Cole is Professor and Chair of Linguistics, and Faculty Affiliate in Cognitive Science. She has a PhD
in Linguistics from M.I.T. (1987), and taught at Yale (1987-1999) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign (1999-2016) prior to joining Northwestern. She is a Fellow of the AAAS and the International
Speech Communication Association, and founding Editor of Laboratory Phonology. Dr. Cole investigates prosody and speech dynamics
in human languages, and the cognitive systems that support real-time speech production and comprehension, using computational and
statistical methods that enable automated analysis of large, multi-talker/hearer datasets in all human languages.
Ezra Getzler, Ph.D.
Mathematics
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For Senator Robert Holmgren of Molecular Biosciences , see Leadership above.
Fred Turek, Ph.D.
Chair, Research Affairs Committee
Neurobiology
847-467-6512
Dr. Fred Turek graduated from Stanford University in Stanford, California in 1973, receiving a PhD in
Biological Sciences; he then completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Texas,
where he studied in the Department of Zoology before becoming an Assistant Professor at Northwestern
University in 1975. He was Chair of the Department of Neurobiology and Physiology from 1987-1998. He is presently the Director of
the Center for Sleep and Circadian Biology and is the Charles E. and Emma H. Professor of Biology in the Department of Neurobiology
and has joint appointments in the Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Feinberg School of
Medicine.
Rachel Zuckert, Ph.D.
Philosophy
847-491-2556
Rachel Zuckert is Professor of Philosophy, affiliated with German; she has been at Northwestern since 2006.
Her publications include Kant on Beauty and Biology and Herder's Naturalist Aesthetics, both from Cambridge
University Press, as well as articles in her areas of specialization (18th-19th c. European philosophy, on
themes in aesthetics, philosophy of biology, and philosophy of history).
Enectali Figueroa-Feliciano, Ph.D.
Physics & Astronomy
847-467-3511
Enectali Figueroa-Feliciano is interested in finding physics beyond the standard model. We know the
standard model of particle physics is not the most fundamental description of nature: it fails to explain
various phenomena such as the mass of neutrinos, dark matter, the expansion of the Universe, and gravity.
We focus on dark matter and neutrinos as they are one of the most promising avenues for finding new
physics in the next decade.
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Karen Alter, Ph.D.
Political Science
847-491-4842
Karen J Alter is a Professor of Political Science and Law. Karen is co-chair of the Organization of Women
Faculty and a member of the Provost Advisory Council for Women. She is co-director of the Research Group
on Global Capitalism and Law, formerly affiliated with the Buffett Institute. Alter’s research interests
include the politics of international law, global capitalism and law, ethics in international affairs, and the
future of multilateralism. In addition, Alter has new research on Gender and Status in American Political Science: Who
Determines Whether a Scholar is Noteworthy? which is being extended to examine gender dynamics related to digital status,
meaning the digital metrics and algorithms that are developing to measure, compare, and project the relative status of scholars.
David Uttal, Ph.D.
Psychology
847-467-1925
David Uttal is a Professor of Psychology and Education at Northwestern University. Along with teaching,
he leads a research laboratory of undergraduate, graduate students, and post-docs. His interests include
Maps, Symbolic Representation, Informal Learning, & Spatial Thinking in STEM Education.
Brannon Ingram, Ph.D.
Religious Studies
847-467-4170
Brannon D. Ingram is a specialist in Islamic studies. He works on Islam in South Asia and South Africa, with
a particular interest in how Muslims have debated Sufism, Islamic law, and politics in the modern era. He
received his B.A. in Religion from Reed College, his M.A. in Islamic Studies from Leiden University, and his
Ph.D. in Religious Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Ilya Kutik, Ph.D.
Slavic Languages & Literature
847-491-8248
Ilya Kutik (Ph.D., Stockholm University, 1994) is a renowned poet and a founder of Russian Metarealism
in poetry.
Carol Heimer, Ph.D.
Chair, Educational Affairs Committee
Sociology
847- 491-7480
Carol A. Heimer is Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University and Research Professor at the
American Bar Foundation. She received her BA from Reed College and her PhD from the University of
Chicago. Heimer has written on risk and insurance (Reactive Risk and Rational Action), organization
theory (Organization Theory and Project Management, co-authored with Stinchcombe), the sociology of law and the sociology of
medicine (For the Sake of the Children, co-authored with Staffen, winner of both the theory and medical sociology prizes of the
American Sociological Association). A recipient of the Ver Steeg Award for graduate teaching, she usually teaches courses on law,
medicine, and qualitative methods, with occasional forays in to topics such as the sociology of moral experience.
Denise Bouras, M.A.
Spanish & Portuguese
847-491-8089
Denise Bouras received her B.A. from Marquette University, where she studied Spanish literature and
journalism. She earned her M.A. in Spanish literature from The University of Chicago, where she is also
currently working on her Ph.D. Since 2001 she has been dedicated to teaching Spanish language and
educating others about Hispanic culture and has taught a variety of courses, from elementary to
advanced levels. At Northwestern University she currently teaches Spanish 203, (Individual & Society
through Written Expression) and has previously taught Spanish 199 (Language in Context: Contemporary Spain). Denise has
recently become a member of the Council on Language Instruction and is very interested in expanding her knowledge on foreign
language acquisition and teaching methodologies. Finally, you can also find her at one of the Department’s numerous film
showings throughout the year, as she is currently enjoying her involvement in the coordination of the film series.
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Arend Kuyper, Ph.D.
Statistics
847-491-8708
My primary work is dedicated to developing and implementing methods, techniques, and strategies for
teaching statistics, especially for introductory statistics and data science related courses. Current work
includes updating the introductory statistics course to both include more statistical computing and
introduce more data science topics. I have also been working on the development and design of the
department’s data science courses.
Mark Witte, Ph.D.
Chair, Governance Committee
Non-Tenure Eligible Member
847-491-8481
Mark Witte's research deals with applied questions in macroeconomics and public finance. His main
interests are in consumption theory and topics in taxation. His teaching interests include
macroeconomics, money and banking, public finance, and the economics of the environment and the
extraction of natural resources. He has been voted onto the Associated Student Government honor roll numerous times in
recognition of both his teaching and student advising. He has been honored with a Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences (WCAS)
Distinguished Teaching Award, and a WCAS Distinguished Leader in the Undergraduate Community Award.
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AFFILIATED FACULTY
Roger Boye
Parliamentarian
Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications
847-491-2069
Roger Boye is an associate professor emeritus-in-service. He has taught at Medill since he received a master’s degree with highest distinction in 1971 and was the school’s assistant dean and director of undergraduate studies for nearly 18 years. He has directed the Medill-Northwestern Journalism Institute since 1985 and has taught in the Institute since 1971. He is faculty chair of the Communications
Residential College and has chaired the Graduate Fellowship Committee as well as Medill’s Curriculum Committee and Academic Standards Committee.
Building a tradition of shared governance at Northwestern