Ellen Cushman Dean’s Professor of Civic Sustainability, Professor of English and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, Diversity and Inclusion e.cushman@northeastern.edu 617.373.4540 @ellencushman 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 NewsStudents, faculty recognized for scholarship, research and innovation at Academic Honors Convocation by Ian Thomsen April 16, 2025 Preserving Cherokee heritage: Northeastern revives ‘The Willie Jumper Stories’ and other lost tales by Erin Kayata February 21, 2025 To save Cherokee language, a digital tool shares tales of Standing Rock and Big Snake with the next generation by Cody Mello-Klein June 27, 2023 A victory and an uncertain future at Standing Rock by Molly Callahan December 12, 2016 Word power by Jason Kornwitz September 16, 2015
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.
