Daniel Abramson
Daniel M. Abramson’s scholarship focuses on issues of architecture, society, economics, and government, from the eighteenth through twentieth centuries with a specialization in American and European topics. Current work focuses on architecture and citizenship in American government centers since 1900, including a recent article in Grey Room 78 (Winter 2020) on the Massachusetts State Service Center and the American welfare state. Before coming to Boston University in 2016, Abramson taught at Tufts University and Connecticut College. He […]
Astraea Augsberger
Astraea Augsberger is interested in child welfare workforce development and the transition to adulthood for court involved youth, and youth participation in decision-making practices. She is currently teaching courses including Introduction to Clinical Practice with Individuals, Families and Groups and Clinical Practice with Individuals. Augsberger is co-leading a research project along with Mary Collins studying […]
Paula Austin
Paula C. Austin is a U.S. historian with a focus on African American history, the history of race and racism, visual culture, urban, education, and women’s history, the history of social science, and the history of childhood. She is particularly interested in interiority and broadening the narrow definitions of intellectual history. Her book, Coming of Age […]
Azer Bestavros
Azer Bestavros is the Founding Director of the BU Hariri Institute for Computing at Boston University. He is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science in the College of Arts and Sciences and holds affiliated appointments in Electrical and Computer Engineering and in Systems Engineering. Created in 2011, the Institute supports the BU computing community […]
Rébecca Bourgault
An art educator and a visual artist, Rébecca Bourgault received her doctoral degree in 2011 from the Art & Art Education program at Teachers College, Columbia University. Other degrees include a MFA in sculpture from the University of Calgary and a BFA from Concordia University in Montréal. She has taught art education at Montserrat College […]
Jade Brown
Jade Brown is a Clinical Associate Professor of Law in the Civil Litigation & Justice Program (CLJP) at Boston University School of Law. Jade teaches the art of lawyering in the CLJP’s clinics, in which students practice employment, housing, and family law in the context of analyzing issues of systemic justice. Previously, Jade was a staff […]
Japonica Brown-Saracino
Japonica Brown-Saracino is an ethnographer who specializes in urban and community sociology, cultural sociology, and the study of race, ethnicity, and sexuality. In 2004, City and Community published her article, “Social Preservationists and the Quest for Authentic Community,” which draws on her study of four gentrifying communities (two small New England towns and two Chicago […]
David Carballo
David Carballo is a specialist in Mesoamerican archaeology, focusing particularly on the prehispanic civilizations of central Mexico. He received an Early Stage Urban Research Award from the IOC in 2018.
Paul Carlile
Paul Carlile’s research and publications focus on managing and understanding risks and boundaries in complex systems. In 2014, he received the Questrom Award for Faculty Excellence in Institutional Leadership. Carlile combines an expertise in management and business with a passion for cities and tackling urban issues. He is currently working with the Boston Mayor’s Office […]
Louis Chude-Sokei
Louis Chude-Sokei is a writer and scholar who is currently Professor of English and Director of the African American and Black Diaspora Studies Program at Boston University where he holds the George and Joyce Wein Chair. His books include the award-winning, The Last Darky: Bert Williams, Black on Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora (2005), The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black Technopoetics (2015) and the […]