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 […]

Ting Wei Li

Ting Wei Li is the IOC’s Communications Manager and Administrator. In this role, he facilitates the IOC’s branding, messaging, and design strategies, manages events, and supervises student staff. Prior to joining the IOC, Ting is a graduate of Boston University’s College of Arts & Sciences magna cum laude, majoring in Political Science and History. Born in […]

Ariana Lim

Ari (she/her) is a sophomore in the College of Arts & Sciences pursuing a BA in economics and a minor in French from Harrington Park, New Jersey. She joined the IOC as a research assistant! As an economics major, I’m passionate about learning about behavioral economics, a combination of economics and psychology that helps to […]

Hao Liu

Originally from Guangzhou, China, Hao holds an undergraduate degree in Journalism and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in advertising at Boston University’s College of Communications. Since 2017, content creation has been one of Hao’s passions. Through self-made content, like vlogs and other videos, he gained over 100,000 followers and accumulated over 5 million views […]

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 […]

Meghann Lucy

Read more about Meghann’s experience as the 2020 MONUM Summer Fellow Meghann is a PhD student in Sociology at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, whose research focuses on consumption, economic sociology, and medical sociology. Before starting her PhD, she worked for the children’s book publisher Scholastic and for the Cardiovascular Research Foundation. Meghann […]

Katharine Lusk

Katharine Lusk was Co-Director and Founding Executive Director of the Boston University Initiative on Cities, which spearheads university-wide programs and research, including the national Menino Survey of Mayors, place-based experiential learning for students and multi-stakeholder events. She has a track record of discipline-spanning research collaboration with public health researchers, environmental scientists, social workers, political scientists, […]

Timothy Maguire

Timothy J. Maguire is the Biogeochemistry Section Lead at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. With a Ph.D. from Boston University, he has conducted influential research on the effects of human populations, urban infrastructure, and agriculture on biogeochemical cycles. Tim’s expertise and postdoctoral work at the University of Michigan Collaborative Institute for Great Lakes […]

Richard Maloney

Richard G Maloney, PhD, FRSA is a Clinical Associate Professor and Director of the Performing Arts Administration graduate program at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, and an Affiliated Faculty member of the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University. He teaches courses in performing arts administration, cultural and […]