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Ellen Cushman
Dean’s Professor of Civic Sustainability, Professor of English and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, Diversity and Inclusion
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Expertise
cultural perseverance, language, literacy

Ellen Cushman in the Press

History

How a Cherokee Leader Ensured His People’s Language Survived

According to Ellen Cushman, a professor at Northeastern University and member of the Cherokee Nation, syllabaries have an advantage over alphabets.

Ellen Cushman for Northeastern Global News

Students stand on either side of Northeastern's President Aoun at the Academic Honors Convocation.

Students, faculty recognized for scholarship, research and innovation at Academic Honors Convocation

by Ian Thomsen
A story written on a piece of paper with Chrokee syllabry.

Preserving Cherokee heritage: Northeastern revives ‘The Willie Jumper Stories’ and other lost tales

headshot of Erin Kayata
by Erin Kayata
Cherokee writing on parchment paper

To save Cherokee language, a digital tool shares tales of Standing Rock and Big Snake with the next generation

by Cody Mello-Klein

A victory and an uncertain future at Standing Rock

by Molly Callahan

Word power

by Jason Kornwitz