Experts on social justice

As societies around the world grapple with inequalities in the distribution of wealth, access to resources, and vulnerabilities to environmental impacts and climate change, social justice, which focuses on issues surrounding human rights, access, participation, and equity, has taken on an ever-greater importance. At WPI, expertise in social justice crosses many disciplines, including anthropology, business, the humanities and arts, computer science, global studies, and social science, and span topics like human trafficking, global development, and the future of work. Meet our experts on social justice.

Kristin Boudreau
  • Professor Humanities & Arts
Professor Boudreau's research in literature, culture, and education is unified by broad concerns for justice, inclusion, and social progress. ... View Profile
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Lindsay Greer Davis
  • Assistant Professor of Teaching Humanities & Arts
Professor Davis is a scholar of 20th century U.S. history, focusing specifically on topics of race, gender, legal history, and critical prison studies. ... View Profile
Angela C. Incollingo Rodriguez
Angela C Incollingo Rodriguez
  • Assistant Professor Social Science & Policy Studies
Professor Rodriguez's research program uses a biopsychosocial approach to study health and health behaviors. ... View Profile
Renata Konrad
Renata Konrad
  • Associate Professor The Business School
Professor Konrad recently returned from a Fulbright scholarship in Lviv, Ukraine, where she exchanged offices and homes with a professor at a Ukrainian university. She studies the application of industrial engineering and mathematical knowledge. ... View Profile
Robert Krueger
  • Professor & Department Head of Social Science and Policy Studies Social Science & Policy Studies
Professor Krueger is a human geographer whose scholarship and teaching focus on creating sustainable, socially just, improvements to development projects in the global north and south. ... View Profile
William San Martín
  • Assistant Professor The Global School
Professor San Martin is a historian of science, environmental change, and public policy. His work examines the history of the science-policy interface to inform contemporary debates on environmental governance. ... View Profile
Mimi Sheller
  • Dean of Global School The Global School
Mimi Sheller is the Dean of The Global School at WPI. She is a widely cited expert in the post-colonial context of the Caribbean, with particular expertise on Haiti. ... View Profile
Gillian Smith
  • Associate Professor Computer Science
Professor Smith is an award-winning game designer. ... View Profile
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Sarah Eliza Stanlick
  • Assistant Professor The Global School
Sarah Stanlick, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in The Global School at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. ... View Profile
Elisabeth Anne Stoddard
  • Associate Professor of Teaching The Global School
Professor Stoddard is a human-environment geographer who is interested in the intersection of nature, society, and social justice. ... View Profile
Yunus Dogan Telliel
  • Assistant Professor Humanities & Arts
Professor Telliel teaches a range of courses on ethics, rhetoric, religion and culture, and science and technology studies. ... View Profile