Judith Gonyea
Judith Gonyea is a professor at Boston University School of Social Work and a faculty affiliate of the Center for Innovation in Social Sciences (CISS) at BU’s College of Arts & Sciences. Gonyea is the author of more than 100 publications, often centering on historically disadvantaged older populations with the goal of advancing equity. In […]
Max Greenberg
Max A. Greenberg researches and teaches in the areas of political sociology, youth and families, and gender. His most recent book, Twelve Weeks to Change a Life: At Risk Youth in a Fractured State, examines the reorganization of state power around short-term grants and fleeting programs. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and historical research, the book […]
Lucy Hutyra
Professor Lucy Hutyra joined the Faculty of Earth & Environment at Boston University in 2009. Her areas of specialization include urban climate and biogeochemistry, remote sensing, and vegetation ecology. Trained as a physical scientist, Professor Hutyra’s research has become ever more focused on the climate and ecology of cities, working at the science-policy interface. She is […]
Jonathan S. Jay
Dr. Jonathan Jay studies urban health, with a concentration in youth exposure to gun violence, as an assistant professor at Boston University School of Public Health. He works at the intersection of data science and community health, focusing on relationships between the built environment and health and safety risks. He leads Shape-Up, a project using […]
Katherine Levine Einstein
Katherine Einstein joined the Political Science department in 2012 after receiving her Ph.D. in Government and Social Policy at Harvard University. Her research and teaching interests broadly include American public policy, racial and ethnic politics, political geography, and urban politics and policy. Her first book, Do Facts Matter? Information and Misinformation in Democratic Politics (with Jennifer Hochschild, […]
Dan Li
Dan Li is the current Urban-H Associate Director of Heat, joining our Urban-H team on July 1, 2024. In this capacity, he will be at the forefront of the IOC, spearheading the development of innovative solutions to urban heat challenges and our center’s ongoing efforts to work on policy-oriented solutions to mitigate urban heat as a […]
Noora Lori
Noora Lori is an Associate Professor of International Relations at the Pardee School of Global Studies. Her research broadly focuses on citizenship, migration, and statelessness. She is interested in temporal strategies of migration enforcement and has written about citizenship regimes and naturalization policies, temporary migration schemes, and racial hierarchies in comparative perspective. Regionally, her work […]
Lucy Marcil
Lucy Marcil, MD, MPH is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics in General Pediatrics at the Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine and Associate Director for Economic Mobility in the Center for the Urban Child and Healthy Family at Boston Medical Center. Her work focuses on creating innovative solutions to create financial and health equity. She […]
Rebecca Pearl-Martinez
Rebecca Pearl-Martinez is the Executive Director of the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS). She has over two decades of experience working to advance the social and equity dimensions of renewable energy and climate change policy in partnership with UN agencies, international organizations, governments, and industry. Her expertise on the ways in which energy […]
Ian Mashiter
Ian Mashiter is currently the director of curriculum at Innovate@BU where oversees the Innovation & Entrepreneurship minor. He previously served as the inaugural managing director of Innovate@BU’s physical home, the BUild Lab IDG Capital Student Innovation Center. He is a senior lecturer at Boston University where he teaches entrepreneurship and strategy to MBA and undergraduate students […]