Mary Churchill
Dr. Mary L. Churchill is the Associate Dean of Strategic Initiatives and Community Engagement at Wheelock College. In this role, she manages strategic partnerships, including the college’s relationship with Boston Public Schools where she represents the college at BPS Equity Roundtable convenings. She currently serves on several local advisory boards: Boston Universal Pre-K, BU’s Initiative […]
Mary Collins
Dean Collins is interested in child welfare policy, the transition to adulthood for vulnerable youth, compassion in social policy, and the evaluation of social services. She is currently teaching courses including Social Welfare Policy and Programs in Children and Social Program Analysis and Evaluation. Dean Collins is co-leading a research project along with Astraea Augsberger […]
Ziba Cranmer
Ziba Cranmer is the Director of BU SPARK!, an initiative for student-centered entrepreneurship and innovation in computing. Ziba is an innovation leader with a diverse range of experience spanning the public and private sectors. Prior to BU, Ziba served as Executive Director of a multimillion-dollar initiative supporting public sector innovators in cities across the United […]
Stephanie Curenton
Dr. Stephanie M. Curenton is a professor in the Educational Leadership & Policy Studies department at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development and the director of the Center on the Ecology of Early Development (CEED). She is also a senior fellow at the Harvard University Center on the Developing Child and is a nonresident […]
Rob DiAdamo
Rob DiAdamo is a Senior Director at WSP, an international infrastructure engineering firm, in the Business Transformation Unit. His work focuses on organizational design, complex procurement, and service delivery for transportation agencies nationwide. Prior to joining WSP, Rob spent most of his career in state government in Massachusetts including as the General Counsel the Executive Office […]
James Feigenbaum
James Feigenbaum studies economic history, labor economics, and political economy. His research interests include inequality, intergenerational mobility, health and mortality, and labor markets in the 19th and early 20th century US, spanning cities during the Age of Mass Migration and the epidemiological transition to the postbellum South. He is also a Faculty Research Fellow at […]
Martin Fiszbein
Martin Fiszbein’s research seeks to understand comparative paths of development in historical perspective, drawing on new empirical approaches and conceptual insights from growth theory, development economics, regional/urban economics, political economy, social psychology, and evolutionary approaches. Adopting a long-run perspective, my papers underscore how “initial conditions” shaping economies early in their history may influence subsequent development […]
Kevin Gallagher
Dr. Kevin P. Gallagher is a professor of global development policy at Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, where he directs the Global Development Policy Center. Kevin P. Gallagher is the author or co-author of six books: The China Triangle: Latin America’s China Boom and the Fate of the Washington Consensus, Ruling Capital: Emerging […]
Michael Gevelber
Professor Gevelber’s engineering research focuses on developing enhanced materials processing capabilities though modeling, sensor development, experimentation, and integrated system and control design. Research in his Advanced Materials Process Control Laboratory has focused on designing and implementing real time control for a variety of materials processing systems and includes production scale equipment for electron beam deposition, […]
David Glick
David Glick joined the Political Science department and Boston University in 2011. He is an associate professor. He is also the faculty director of MetroBridge and a co-PI on the Menino Survey of Mayors with BU’s Initiative on Cities. He received his Ph.D. in the Department of Politics at Princeton University and was previously a visiting […]