Gina Powers
Gina Powers is a Senior Lecturer in Questrom School of Business who is also interested in supporting, mentoring, and being a resource for first generation students during their academic journey and beyond at BU’s Newbury Center. View Questrom School of Business profile.
Anne Short Gianotti
Anne Short Gianotti’s research and teaching focus on the social and political dimensions of conservation, natural resource management, and climate change. By integrating concepts and approaches across the broad fields of natural resource management, institutions and the environment, and political ecology, she seeks to understand better how socio-political and ecological processes shape human interactions with […]
Jessica Simes
Jessica T. Simes is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Boston University with broad interests in punishment, urban inequality, poverty and marginality, and immigration. In her research, she analyzes mass incarceration from a spatial perspective to understand and explain broad patterns of social inequality. Her current book project explores the geography of mass imprisonment using […]
Christine Slaughter
Christine M. Slaughter is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Boston University. She received her PhD in 2021 from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Before joining the department, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Politics at Princeton University, and the University of California, Irvine. Her research examines African American […]
Benjamin Sovacool
Benjamin K. Sovacool was the Director of the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS) and 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 […]
Ian Sue Wing
Recent research by Professor Ian Sue Wing includes representing endogenous technological change in climate policy models through general equilibrium approaches. Findings include: The impact on the costs of GHG abatement of the accumulation and substitution of knowledge in an intertemporal setting. The effects of future markets and competition for inputs on the timing and rate […]
Yeşim Sungu-Eryilmaz
The question at the core of Dr. Sungu’s work is: what factors influence cities’ economic, social, and environmental sustainability? In searching for answers, she has worked with academics, practitioners, civic leaders, community organizers, and policy analysts. Her publications cover innovation-oriented economic development, brownfield redevelopment, community land trusts, and inter-organizational collaboration in disaster management. She was […]
Pamela Templer
Pamela Templer is broadly interested in ecosystem ecology and the influence that plant-microbial interactions have on nutrient cycling, retention and loss. She is particularly interested in the effects that human activities, such as fossil fuel combustion, introduction of non-native plant species, land use change and climate change, have on forest ecosystems. The Templer Lab focuses […]
Kathleen Vandenberg
Kathleen Vandenberg is a Master Lecturer of Rhetoric at Boston University’s College of General Studies. Winner of the 2022 Gerald and Deanne Gitner Family Award for Innovation in Teaching with Technology, Vandenberg teaches students effective communication that marries writing, short opinion documentaries, and podcasts, among other mediums. Her research interests include urban design, visual rhetoric […]
Ana Villarreal
Ana Villarreal is an Associate Professor of Sociology whose research focuses on emotions, cities, violence, and their relations to inequality. Her research looks into how fear and violence in Mexico have deepened class, racial, urban, and civic disparities. She published her first work The Two Faces of Fear: Violence and Inequality in the Mexican Metropolis (Oxford […]