STRIDE Faculty Search Committee Workshop

Jackie Isaacs

Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs, STRIDE Committee Chair

• j.isaacs@neu.edu

Laney Strange

Teaching Professor of Computer Science, Director of Broadening Participation and Director of Teaching Faculty, Khoury College of Computer Sciences

• e.strange@northeastern.edu

Elena (Laney) Strange is the director of broadening participation, director for teaching faculty, and an associate teaching professor at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University. She teaches across the undergraduate curriculum, as well as in the Align program, which allows students with bachelor’s degrees in fields beyond computer science to pursue a master’s degree.

After receiving her doctorate from Dartmouth College, she began working as a senior software engineer for Amazon Web Services. After Amazon, she became the product director for TechSoup Global, an international nonprofit that builds software for social change instigators worldwide

In addition to her position at Northeastern, Strange is a passionate advocate for underrepresented groups in computer science. She is fond of teaching Women’s Community of Code programming workshops that empower girls, women, and even local Girl Scout troops.

Sarah Kanouse

Associate Professor of Media Arts, College of Arts, Media and Design

• s.kanouse@northeastern.edu
• 617-373-6371

Sarah Kanouse is an interdisciplinary artist and critical writer examining the politics of landscape and space. Migrating between video, photography, and performative forms, her research-based creative projects shift the visual dimension of the landscape to allow hidden stories of environmental and social transformation to emerge. She is currently touring “My Electric Genealogy,” a performance-lecture that considers the shifting cultures and politics of energy in Los Angeles through her own family’s involvement in extractive infrastructure.

Sarah Kanouse has contributed to exhibitions, festivals, and creative research platforms mounted by the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Documenta 13, the Museum of Contemporary Art-Chicago, the Cooper Union, the Minneapolis Museum of American Art, the Clark Art Institute, the Smart Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, as well as film festivals and academic institutions worldwide. She is also the author or co-author of thirty peer-reviewed or invited publications, largely on the politics of landscape, ecology, and public memory, including the photo-text book Re-Collecting Black Hawk (co-authored with Nicholas Brown, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015).

A 2019-2020 Rachel Carson Fellow at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Kanouse is Associate Professor of Media Arts in the Department of Art + Design. She holds an MFA degree from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and an undergraduate degree from Yale University.

Cliff Lee

Professor of Education, College of Arts, Media and Design and Mills College at Northeastern University

• cl.lee@northeastern.edu
• 510-430-3176

Education

PhD, University of California, Los Angeles