Isabella Abraham

Isabella is a senior in the Pardee School in the College of Arts and Sciences pursuing a BA in International Relations and an Arabic minor. In her second year working with the IOC, she is looking forward to further exploring urban planning and policy, especially as it relates to housing inequality, policing, and food justice. […]

Gloria Ampadu-Darko

Gloria is a sophomore majoring in International Relations with a minor in Political Science and Public Health. Her interests include international development, human rights, civil rights, and social justice. She aspires to pursue a career in which she can make a meaningful impact in one of these areas. Gloria’s directed study will be centered around […]

Cristell Bacilio

Cristell Bacilio (she/her) is a sophomore in the College of Arts & Sciences pursuing a BA in International Relations and Political Science from Dallas, Texas. With a strong interest in social justice and human rights, she hopes to give back to the communities she is a part of and is excited to learn from and […]

Tammy Dong

Tammy is currently an undergraduate senior studying International Relations at Boston University. Her areas of focus include foreign policy and security studies with a regional specialization in the Middle East and North Africa. She enjoys learning about different parts of the world and piecing together the puzzle of why the world is the way it […]

Kevin Gallagher

Dr. Kevin P. Gallagher is a professor of global development policy at Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, where he directs the Global Development Policy Center. Kevin P. Gallagher is the author or co-author of six books: The China Triangle: Latin America’s China Boom and the Fate of the Washington Consensus, Ruling Capital: Emerging […]

Augustine Jimenez

Augustine Jimenez is a graduate with a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations. Through his Fellowship, Jimenez spent the fall semester paired with a faculty member in an on-campus Directed Study program. He spent the 2018 spring semester in Boston University’s (BU) Washington DC study abroad program, where he took classes and participated in a […]

Mahesh Karra

Mahesh Karra is an Associate Professor of Global Development Policy at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University and the Associate Director of the Human Capital Initiative at the Global Development Policy Center. His academic and research interests are broadly in development economics, health economics, quantitative methods, and applied demography. His […]

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 […]

Adil Najam

Dr. Adil Najam (عادل نجم) is the inaugural Dean of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University which was founded in 2014 with a generous gift from BU alum Frederick S. Pardee. He is also a Professor of International Relations and of Earth and Environment. Earlier, Prof. Adil Najam served as Vice Chancellor of […]

Valerie Sanchez

Valerie Sanchez studied International Relations on the Pre-Law track. She was born and raised in Chicago, and her parents are immigrants from Mexico and Colombia. In high school, Valerie became interested in advocacy work and diplomacy on an international scale, and this, with her background and passion for social justice, has pushed her to pursue […]