Northeastern University is in the second year of an initiative to hire 50 outstanding faculty at the associate and full professor levels to pursue interdisciplinary research and teaching. Northeastern seeks scholars who aspire to create new areas of scholarship and new disciplines by combining their knowledge and mastery of different fields with others'. Our commitment is guided by our recently adopted Academic Plan, which embraces interdisciplinary research and teaching across its broad objectives in experiential learning, research, creative expression, urban engagement, and global outreach.