For 2018-2019, she will be a Faculty Fellow with the Northeastern Humanities Center and a Faculty Scholar with the Northeastern University Institute for Health Equity and Social Justice Research. Alper is also past Faculty Associate with the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. Prior to joining the faculty at Northeastern, she earned her doctoral and master’s degrees from the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California. She also holds a bachelor’s degree in Communication Studies and History from Northwestern University, as well as a certificate in Early Childhood Education from UCLA.