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 […]
Cortney Tunis
Read more about Cortney’s experience as the 2014 MONUM Summer Fellow Learn more about the MONUM fellowship here!
Kathleen Vandenberg
Kathleen Vandenberg is a Master Lecturer of Rhetoric at Boston University’s College of General Studies. Winner of the 2022 Gerald and Deanne Gitner Family Award for Innovation in Teaching with Technology, Vandenberg teaches students effective communication that marries writing, short opinion documentaries, and podcasts, among other mediums. Her research interests include urban design, visual rhetoric […]
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.
Marcus Walton
Marcus Walton is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Boston University. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from Brown University. He has previously been a postdoctoral fellow at the Public Affairs Research Institute in Johannesburg, South Africa and a lecturer at University of the Witwatersrand. His research is on democracy and protest in […]
Monica Wang
Dr. Wang is an Associate Professor of Community Health Sciences at the Boston University School of Public Health, an Adjunct Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and an Associate Director of Narrative at the BU Center for Antiracist Research. Dr. Wang is nationally recognized as […]
Maddie Webster
Maddie is a PhD candidate in the American & New England Studies Program, where she studies urban history and historic preservation with a focus on Boston. Her dissertation explores Black Bostonians’ historic preservation efforts from the late nineteenth century onward, a story that comes into clearer focus by reframing what activities constitute preservation work. As a […]
Gregory Wellenius
Gregory Wellenius is a Professor on Environmental Health at the Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) and Director of the new BUSPH Center for Climate and Health. He is an environmental epidemiologist committed to reducing the adverse health impacts of continued climate change through research, training, and engagement. Dr. Wellenius also teaches an introductory […]
Shannon Whittaker
Urban H Interests: Housing, Health, Heat Dr. Shannon Whittaker is a postdoctoral fellow within CISS. She received her Ph.D. from Yale School of Public Health and her Master’s in Public Health from Brown University School of Public Health. Her research interests lie at the intersection of place, race, health, and history, where she examines how social, […]