Jacqueline Lauer
Jacqueline Lauer is a public health nutritionist whose research centers around examining the drivers of adverse birth outcomes and child undernutrition in low- and middle-income countries. She has experience living and working in Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and South Asia.
Loretta Lees
Loretta Lees is an urban geographer and urbanist who is internationally known for her research on gentrification, urban regeneration, global urbanism, urban policy, urban public space, architecture, and urban social theory. Before moving to Boston University to serve as Faculty Director of the Initiative on Cities, she was professor of Human Geography at Leicester University […]
Margaret Litvin
Margaret Litvin is Associate Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature. Her research explores modern Arabic literature’s global entanglements, from adaptations of Shakespeare’s Hamlet to the literary legacies of Arab-Russian and Arab-Soviet ties. She is the author of two solo-authored books, Hamlet’s Arab Journey: Shakespeare’s Prince and Nasser’s Ghost (Princeton, 2011) and Red Mecca: The Life and Afterlives of the […]
Lindsey Locks
Dr. Locks is an Assistant Professor of Health Sciences at Boston University’s Sargent College and an Assistant Professor of Global Health at the BU School of Public Health. She is a global health nutritional epidemiologist. She has expertise in quantitative research methods; nutrition interventions in low-resource settings; assessment of diet and nutritional status; and maternal, […]
Margaret Lombe
An expert in social work and global health equity, Dr. Lombe is also chair of the Macro Practice department at BUSSW. Her research focuses on advancing the wellbeing of marginalized communities, seeking to impact upstream interventions or system-level changes by paying close attention to social and economic justice, empowerment, and participatory democracy. Dr. Lombe’s work […]
Timothy Longman
Professor Longman’s research focuses on state-society relations in Africa, looking particularly at human rights, transitional justice, democratization, civil society, the politics of race and ethnicity, religion and politics, and women and politics. He has published two books on Rwanda, Christianity and Genocide in Rwanda (Cambridge University Press 2011) and Memory and Justice in Post-Genocide Rwanda […]
Luz Marilis López
Professor Luz Marilis López believes in strength-based and culturally responsive partnerships to advance health equity, social work, and public health practices around the globe. In addition to her role as a clinical professor, she is the director of the Social Work and Public Health Dual Degree Program at BUSSW. In partnership with BUSSW’s Center for […]
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 […]
Allison McDonald
Allison McDonald is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences (CDS) at Boston University. Working at the nexus of security, privacy, and human-computer interaction (HCI), McDonald’s research emphasizes how technology impacts digital safety and exacerbates marginalization of often-overlooked groups such as refugees, political dissidents, and victims of domestic abuse. To that end, she leverages […]
Sandra McEvoy
Professor McEvoy is Clinical Associate Professor of Political Science & Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Boston University. Her research focuses on gender and conflict, particularly related to how war creates vulnerabilities and opportunities that are both gendered and sexed. Her research draws on fieldwork in post-conflict Northern Ireland, where she has worked for many […]