Rady Roldán-Figueroa

Dr. Roldán-Figueroa (he, him, his) is a Puerto Rican scholar whose research, publications, and teaching engage the history of Christianity from the 15th to the 20th century. He specializes in early modern global Christianity, Christianity in colonial Latin America, the intersectionality of Catholicism, race, and colonialism as well as the history of Christian spirituality. He is the author […]

Kaija Schilde

Kaija E. Schilde is Associate Dean of Studies at the Boston University Pardee School of Global Studies. Her primary research interests involve the political economy of security and transatlantic security. Her book, The Political Economy of European Security (Cambridge University Press, 2017) investigates the state-society relations between the EU and interest groups, with a particular focus on […]

Parker Shipton

Professor Parker Shipton’s current and continuing research interests include economic, legal, and symbolic anthropology and the history of social studies. Topics of his research, teaching, and writing have included agriculture, food, and hunger; credit and debt; land rights, attachment, and belonging; kinship and fictive kinship; ritual and sequencing; human rights; and the human classification and […]

Benjamin Sovacool

Benjamin K. Sovacool, Director of the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is 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 research focuses […]

Samantha Truong

Samantha Truong, MD, is an academic generalist in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Boston Medical Center (BMC) and an assistant professor at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine. Dr. Truong provides care at the BMC Refugee Women’s Health Clinic and at NeighborHealth, a Federally Qualified Health Center in East Boston. She […]

Kính T. Vũ

Kính T. Vũ is an assistant professor of music in music education at Boston University where he teaches music education initial licensure courses such as instrumental laboratory and secondary general music methods. Kính also teaches at BU’s Kilachand Honors College. He serves on university-wide committees as well as the music education licensure committee. Kính’s research […]

Beth Warren

Dr. Beth Warren is the Sylvia Earl Professor and director of the Earl Center for Learning & Innovation. She is also a professor in the department of Language &  Literacy Education. Dr. Warren’s research imagines possibilities for learning and teaching beyond the settled forms of schooling that have failed too many of our children and […]

Veronika Josefa Wirtz

Veronika J. Wirtz, MSc, PhD is a Professor in the Department of Global Health at the Boston University School of Public Health, where she is also Director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Center in Pharmaceutical Policy. Her research focuses on health system strengthening and policy and program evaluations of medicines access and utilization. She […]