Maxwell Palmer
Maxwell Palmer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, the Director of Advanced Programs (BA/MA and Honors Programs), and a Junior Faculty Fellow at the Hariri Institute for Computing. He joined the department and Boston University in 2014, after receiving his Ph.D. in Political Science at Harvard University. His research and teaching interests include American political […]
Songhyun Park
Song is the Doctoral Research Fellow of the Initiative on Cities. She received her B.A. in International Relations and Russian Language & Cultures from Emory University in 2015. After two years working for a start-up company in the education industry and for the UNHCR, Song entered the PhD program in Political Science at Boston University […]
Ayşe Parla
Ayşe Parla’s first book, Precarious Hope: Migration and the Limits of Belonging in Turkey, explores the tension between ethnic privilege and economic precarity through a decade of ethnographic fieldwork with Turkish migrants from Bulgaria as they navigate legal and bureaucratic spheres, as well as the complexities of cultural belonging. The broader theoretical intervention is a […]
Deep Patel
Read more about Deep’s experience as the 2021 Mayor’s Office of Policy & Planning Summer Fellow Deep Patel was in BU’s Kilachand Honors College and College of Arts and Sciences double majoring in Economics and Political Science. Born and raised in New York City, Deep’s interactions with his local and city level officials in the […]
An Pham
Read more about An’s experience as the Summer 2021 City of Chelsea Open Data & Digital Communications Fellow An Pham majored in Economics & Mathematics. Born in Cambridge, An’s family moved back to Vietnam until raising him and his little sister in Toronto, Canada. He took early interests in writing, coding, and history that eventually […]
An Pham
An is a junior majoring in Economics and Mathematics and is interested in inequality, environmental policy, and urban economics. He hopes to pursue a career in policy analysis, where he can work with city governments, activists, and other academics to make a difference. An’s directed study will focus on the history of Boston housing policy. […]
Donna Pincus
My primary research interests include the assessment and treatment of children’s fears and anxieties, and I am especially interested in developing new treatments for young children with anxiety disorders. In addition, other areas of research interest include children’s coping with everyday stress, risk and resilience factors affecting the development of child psychopathology, and psychological factors […]
Spencer Piston
Spencer Piston is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Boston University. He received his PhD in 2014 from the University of Michigan. His research examines the politics of oppression in the United States, focusing on race, class, public opinion, political behavior, elections, the welfare state, and the criminal justice system.
Richard B. Primack
Richard Primack is interested in the impact of climate change on the phenology plants, birds and insects, as well as conservation biology, noise pollution, and the ecological and conservation impacts of the pandemic. He received an Early Stage Urban Research Award from the IOC in 2019.
Talal Rahim
Talal Rahim, a PhD candidate in Economics at the BU College of Arts and Sciences, is fulfilling his Summer Fellowship with the City of Providence, RI. Rahim is serving as Mayor Jorge Elorza‘s Data Science Fellow where he will be focused on projects that include building an energy efficiency database and a property inspections database.