Caterina Scaramelli
My research centers on mutual constitutions of ecologies, scientific expertise, and infrastructures as conduits for people’s claims about livelihood and moral subjectivity. I am completing a large ethnographic and archival research project that examines the dynamic multivalence of wetlands. In Turkey, as in many other places, the wetland became an important site of everyday contestations over […]
Karin Schon
Karin Schon, Ph.D., received a joint B.A./M.A. degree in Psychology from the University of Hamburg in Germany in 1998, and her Ph.D. from the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Boston University in 2005. Her dissertation focused on functional neuroimaging studies of working memory and long-term (episodic) memory formation under the mentorship of Prof. […]
Sylvia Shangani
Urban H Interests: Health/Mental Health, Housing Sylvia Shangani is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the Boston University School of Public Health. She is also a visiting research scientist at Yale University School of Public Health, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences. Her primary research is focused on HIV prevention […]
Anne Short Gianotti
Anne Short’s research and teaching focus on the social and political dimensions of conservation, natural resource management, and climate change. By integrating concepts and approaches across the broad fields of natural resource management, institutions and the environment, and political ecology, she seeks to better understand how socio-political and ecological processes shape human interactions with nature […]
Jessica Simes
Jessica T. Simes is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Boston University with broad interests in punishment, urban inequality, poverty and marginality, and immigration. In her research, she analyzes mass incarceration from a spatial perspective to understand and explain broad patterns of social inequality. Her current book project explores the geography of mass imprisonment using […]
Roshan Sivaraman
Roshan Sivaraman is a junior pursuing a Dual Degree in International Relations (BA) and Voice Performance (BM) at BU. They are particularly interested in studying human-state-environment relations. This past semester, they studied in Singapore and traveled through Southeast Asia. Roshan worked with the National University of Singapore’s Asia Research Institute on a conservation awareness project […]
Ian Smith
Ian Smith received a Ph.D. from the Department of Earth & Environment at Boston University in spring 2023. He graduated from Boston University in 2017 with a major in Environmental Science and minor in Economics. Ian is a research scientist at Boston University’s Earth & Environment Department and is the instructor of BU URBAN’s Urban […]
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 […]
Keith Spangler
Urban H Interests: Heat, Health Dr. Spangler specializes in health impacts of climate change and other environmental exposures using methods and data sets from epidemiology and geoscience.