Four BU Social Scientists Among the 22 CRC Faculty Promoted to Full Professor
This article, by BU Today staff, originally appeared in BU Today on May 1, 2024.
Among the 22 faculty on Boston University’s Charles River Campus who have been promoted to the rank of full professor, “The individuals we recognize today have emerged as leaders in their respective fields of research and in their classrooms,” wrote Kenneth Lutchen, BU provost ad interim, in an email announcing the faculty promotions. “At a time of transition and challenge in the world, they are meeting the moment by pursuing highly relevant new areas of inquiry, employing innovative new approaches, and entering boundary-pushing collaborations across dozens of disciplines.”
Those faculty on the Charles River Campus promoted to full professor include:
Jonathan Barnes, College of Arts & Sciences professor of linguistics
Elizabeth Blanton, CAS professor of astronomy
Catherine Espaillat, CAS professor of astronomy
David Glick, CAS professor of political science, studies American politics and researches the US Supreme Court, local government, and public policy. A fellow with the federal government’s Office of Evaluation Sciences, he is co-PI on the Menino Survey of Mayors and has coauthored a book, Neighborhood Defenders: Participatory Politics and America’s Housing Crisis (Cambridge University Press, 2019), and other works chronicling the local politics of housing. He has additionally published 26 peer-reviewed articles in journals including Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, American Journal of Political Science, and Perspectives on Politics.
Deeana Klepper, CAS professor of religion and history, is a historian of religion in medieval Europe whose research focuses on religious identities, cultures, and interreligious encounters among Christians, Jews, and Muslims. She has authored two books, including 2022’sPastoral Care and Community in Late Medieval Germany: Albert of Diessen’s Mirror of Priests(Cornell University Press),along with 12 book chapters and articles in major journals. A frequent presenter at national and international conferences on medieval studies, Jewish studies, and history, Klepper was elected this year to the Society of Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America, an honor that recognizes long-term scholarly achievement within the field.
David Lagakos, CAS professor of economics, is a macroeconomist who studies the determinants of economic growth in some of the world’s least developed regions. A past lead academic for the International Growth Centre in Ghana, he has served as editor of the Review of Economic Dynamics and the Journal of Development Economics and is currently a research affiliate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Centre for Economic Policy Research. His papers have appeared in the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and other prominent journals.
Petrus Liu, CAS professor of world languages and literatures
Judith Lok, CAS professor of mathematics and statistics
Natalia Ramondo, CAS professor of economics, is an international trade economist whose research examines the global impact of multinational corporations’ activities. Her most recent studies explore the correlation between those firms’ activities and carbon emissions worldwide. Her work has been supported by two NSF grants and published in top-tier economic journals, such as the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, and the Review of Economic Studies. She is a research associate at NBER, a research fellow at CEPR, and an associate editor for the Journal of Monetary Economics, the American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, and the Journal of International Economics.
Chen Yang, CAS professor of chemistry, College of Engineering professor of electrical and computer engineering
Michael Zell, CAS professor of history of art and architecture
Traci Hong, College of Communication professor of mass communication, advertising, and public relations
Srikanth Gopalan, College of Engineering professor of mechanical engineering
Gordon Burtch, Questrom School of Business professor of information systems
Tal Gross, Questrom professor of markets, public policy, and law
Andrea Vedolin, Questrom professor of finance
Rosemarie Ziedonis, Questrom professor of strategy and innovation
Ruth Paris, School of Social Work professor of clinical practice
Rady Roldán-Figueroa (STH’05), School of Theology professor of history of Christianity
Melissa Holt, Wheelock College of Education & Human Development professor of counseling psychology and applied human development
Kimberly Howard, Wheelock professor of counseling psychology and applied human development
Yasuko Kanno, Wheelock professor of language and literacy education