Natalie Smith
Natalie Smith is a Ph.D. student in the Sociology Department at Boston University. With a focus on urban sociology, her interests include gentrification, displacement, housing injustice, urban inequalities, and the Right to the City. She has previously worked on research that explored the loss of council (public) housing and community displacement due to urban regeneration […]
Benjamin Sovacool
Benjamin K. Sovacool is the Director of the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS) and a Professor in the Department of Earth & Environment. He works as a researcher and consultant on issues pertaining to global energy policy and politics, energy security, energy justice, climate change mitigation, and climate change adaptation. More specifically, his […]
Ian Sue Wing
Recent research by Professor Ian Sue Wing includes representing endogenous technological change in climate policy models through general equilibrium approaches. Findings include: The impact on the costs of GHG abatement of the accumulation and substitution of knowledge in an intertemporal setting. The effects of future markets and competition for inputs on the timing and rate […]
Erin Tatz
Erin Tatz is a Research Assistant for the Menino Survey of Mayors, the only nationally representative and scientifically rigorous survey of American mayors. She entered the Political Science PhD program in 2019 after earning a B.A. in Critical Theory and Social Justice from Occidental College in 2016 and working in the social service sector in […]
Maya Terhune
Read more about Maya’s experience as the 2017 Greater Manchester Combined Authority Summer Fellow Maya graduated from Boston University in 2018 with a degree in Economics and Mathematics. Before her fellowship with GMCA, she has previously interned for WGBH and WNET New York Public Media.
Linh T. Tô
Linh Tô is a labor economist with a focus on topics including gender inequality and methodology for empirical work. Her recent work combines methods ranging from quasi-experimental to structural and experimental to analyze preferences of workers, employers, and consumers, and their consequences for public policy. Pronounce Linh the same as the English word ling. Pronounce […]
Henry Tonks
Henry Tonks was a Ph.D. candidate in the History Department, where he studied postwar United States political history with Professor Bruce J. Schulman. Born in Birmingham, in the United Kingdom, he moved to Boston after completing his M.A. at the University of Missouri–Columbia. Henry’s research is concerned with the remaking of modern American liberalism, focusing […]
Ana Villarreal
Ana Villarreal is an Assistant Professor of Sociology whose research focuses on emotions, cities, violence, and their relations to inequality. Her research looks into how fear and violence in Mexico has deepened class, racial, urban, and civic disparities. She published her first work The Two Faces of Fear: Violence and Inequality in the Mexican Metropolis (Oxford […]
Sean Waddington
Sean (he/him) is a senior at the College of Arts & Sciences, pursuing a BA in political science and sociology. He has been with the IOC as an Office Assistant since his freshman year at BU. As a burgeoning urbanist and policymaker, he enjoys working with the full-time staff to further explore urban issues, supplementing […]
Julia Wagner
Urban H Interests: Heat, Housing, Health Dr. Wagner’s research interests focus on how cities design and implement regulations and incentives to lower residential building emissions, particularly making residential decarbonization more accessible to low- and moderate-income households.