Brandy Barents
Brandy Barents has been teaching in the Writing Program since 2007. Her recent seminars explore the lives and works of Massachusetts writers; the history, films, and literature of Boston; contemporary theater; and the plight of the unhoused in Boston. Brandy loves traveling and living abroad: she taught English in Japan for three years and Irish […]
Mary Battenfeld
Mary Battenfeld comes to BU’s American and New England Studies Program from Wheelock College, where she was a tenured full professor of Humanities and Chair of General Education. At Wheelock, she served on numerous faculty committees, including Faculty Senate and Curriculum Committee, and in 2012 was awarded the Edward H. Ladd Award for Academic Excellence […]
Jaclyn Berman
Jaclyn (she/her) is a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences pursuing a BA in Political Science. As an aspiring housing and urban policy professional, she is extremely excited to continue exploring urban issues faced on campus and beyond, especially through the IOC’s #BUandBoston series. Passionate about affordable housing, immigrant rights, and feminist & […]
Azer Bestavros
Azer Bestavros is the Founding Director of the BU Hariri Institute for Computing at Boston University. He is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science in the College of Arts and Sciences and holds affiliated appointments in Electrical and Computer Engineering and in Systems Engineering. Created in 2011, the Institute supports the BU computing community […]
Adam Bieda
Adam is a graduate with a double major in Economics and English. Through the NLC Menino Fellowship, Adam spent the fall semester paired with IOC Director and Professor Graham Wilson and Professor of Economics Robert Margo in an on-campus Directed Study program. He spent the 2019 spring semester in Boston University’s (BU) Washington, DC study abroad program, where […]
Rébecca Bourgault
An art educator and a visual artist, Rébecca Bourgault received her doctoral degree in 2011 from the Art & Art Education program at Teachers College, Columbia University. Other degrees include a MFA in sculpture from the University of Calgary and a BFA from Concordia University in Montréal. She has taught art education at Montserrat College […]
Sarabeth Broder-Fingert, MD
Sarabeth Broder-Fingert, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Boston University School of Medicine. She is passionate about developing and testing interventions to help improve the lives of children at risk and also understanding how and why these interventions are implemented. In 2012 she received funding in the form of a HRSA-funded T32 […]
Jacob Brown
Urban-H Interests: Housing, Mental Health Jacob Brown is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Boston University. He joined the Department and Boston University in 2023, after receiving his Ph.D. in Political Science at Harvard University. His primary research focuses on where people live, and how where they live influences their politics. […]
Jade Brown
Jade Brown is a Clinical Associate Professor of Law in the Civil Litigation & Justice Program (CLJP) at Boston University School of Law. Jade teaches the art of lawyering in the CLJP’s clinics, in which students practice employment, housing, and family law in the context of analyzing issues of systemic justice. Previously, Jade was a staff […]
Japonica Brown-Saracino
Japonica Brown-Saracino is an ethnographer who specializes in urban and community sociology, cultural sociology, and the study of race, ethnicity, and sexuality. In 2004, City and Community published her article, “Social Preservationists and the Quest for Authentic Community,” which draws on her study of four gentrifying communities (two small New England towns and two Chicago […]