Dr. Phil He is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice and Vice Provost of Faculty Diversity at Northeastern University. He is a university leader expected to serve as a catalyst towards promoting and cultivating a shared vision and culture of inclusive excellence. He has previously served as Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs and Vice Provost for Graduate Education, all at Northeastern.
His primary teaching and research interests include policing, comparative criminology and criminal justice and quantitative methods. He was a recipient of the Professor Robert Sheehan Excellence in Teaching Award from the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northeastern University, and two Outstanding Alumni Achievement Awards from the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He was the PI for the U.S. portion of the 30-nation International Self-Report Delinquency Study funded by the National Institute of Justice.
He is a leading scholar who has been actively involved in the rule of law reform related projects in China, sponsored by the Ford and the MacArthur Foundations. He was granted a MacArthur Foundation award as a PI for a two-year benchmark study on legal representation and criminal processing in Chinese criminal courts. Dr. He continues to serve on the editorial board of the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology. He is Vice-Chairman of the Asian Criminological Society Supervisory Board, Board of Director member of the International Society of Criminology, and President of the Council of Chinese American Deans and Presidents.
Dr. He received his law degree from Xiamen University (China) and Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He was a faculty member at the University of Texas-San Antonio before joining Northeastern University in 2003.