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.
Deborah Carr
Deborah Carr is director of the Center of Innovation in Social Science and A&S Distinguished Professor of sociology. She is a life course sociologist who uses survey data and quantitative methods to study social factors linked with health and well-being in later life. She has written extensively on inequality in old age, death and dying, […]
Elizabeth Champion
Read more about Elizabeth’s experience as the 2018 Greater Manchester Combined Authority Fellow Elizabeth Champion studied economics in the College of Arts and Science. Avid about the economics and history of cities, she hopes to eventually pursue her Masters in City Planning. Last fall, she worked as a Community Planning Intern for the City of […]
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 […]
Elizabeth Clackson
Elizabeth is a graduate in Political Science who hopes to work in public policy and urban governance. Through the NLC Menino Fellowship, Elizabeth spent the fall semester paired with IOC Director and Professor Graham Wilson in an on-campus Directed Study program. Through her Directed Study and her internship with the NLC, Elizabeth examined the Boston Centers for […]
Daniel Daponte
Daniel is pursuing a BA in Environmental Analysis and Policy with a minor in Urban Studies. He aspires to have a career in city planning or local government to create more sustainable and equitable cities. Through this Fellowship, Daniel will spend the fall semester paired with IOC Director and Professor Graham Wilson in a Directed Study program. […]
Tammy Dong
Tammy is currently an undergraduate senior studying International Relations at Boston University. Her areas of focus include foreign policy and security studies with a regional specialization in the Middle East and North Africa. She enjoys learning about different parts of the world and piecing together the puzzle of why the world is the way it […]
Tori Douglas
Read more about Tori’s Experience as the 2019 Greater Manchester Combined Authority Summer Fellow Tori Douglas majored in Political Science and minoring in Philosophy. She has previously worked for WaterFront Center in New York, where she worked with children to teach them the importance of environmental conservation. She interned at Environment America, where she worked […]
Bahar Erbas
Urban H Interests: Heat, Health Bahar Erbas teaches various courses at the undergraduate and master’s level, including Environmental Economics and Public Economics. She works on empirical topics related to environmental, resource and energy economics and public economics. Her research mainly focuses on environmental regulations and climate change. She has public sector experience at the US Department […]
Arcadia Ewell
Arcadia is interested in understanding the effects of early, chronic stress on cognitive development. Specifically, she’s interested in identifying mechanisms through which stress gets “under the skin” so that we may identify pathways to ensure that all children are prepared to meet their cognitive potential and succeed academically