Campbell Taylor
Campbell was a rising sophomore studying Economics and International Relations with a minor in Urban Studies. She is originally from San Antonio, Texas, and studied at the United World College of Costa Rica before coming to Boston. At BU, her primary academic interest is combating patterns of urban inequality, and she is a researcher on […]
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 […]
Maya Terhune
Read more about Maya’s experience as the 2017 Greater Manchester Combined Authority Summer Fellow Maya graduated from Boston University in 2018 with a degree in Economics and Mathematics. Before her fellowship with GMCA, she has previously interned for WGBH and WNET New York Public Media.
Linh T. Tô
Linh Tô is a labor economist with a focus on topics including gender inequality and methodology for empirical work. Her recent work combines methods ranging from quasi-experimental to structural and experimental to analyze preferences of workers, employers, and consumers, and their consequences for public policy. Pronounce Linh the same as the English word ling. Pronounce […]
Henry Tonks
Henry Tonks was a Ph.D. candidate in the History Department, where he studied postwar United States political history with Professor Bruce J. Schulman. Born in Birmingham, in the United Kingdom, he moved to Boston after completing his M.A. at the University of Missouri–Columbia. Henry’s research is concerned with the remaking of modern American liberalism, focusing […]
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 […]
Sean Waddington
Sean (he/him) is a senior at the College of Arts & Sciences, pursuing a BA in political science and sociology. He has been with the IOC as an Office Assistant since his freshman year at BU. As a burgeoning urbanist and policymaker, he enjoys working with the full-time staff to further explore urban issues, supplementing […]
Julia Wagner
Urban H Interests: Heat, Housing, Health Dr. Wagner’s research interests focus on how cities design and implement regulations and incentives to lower residential building emissions, particularly making residential decarbonization more accessible to low- and moderate-income households.
Chas Walker
Chas is a PhD candidate in BU’s Department of Political Science, a Graduate Affiliate of the Center for Innovation in Social Science, and a writer whose essays on politics, work, and culture have been published in Jacobin, The Boston Globe, Truthout, and more. He earned a BA in African-American Studies at Brown University in 2000 […]
Marcus Walton
Marcus Walton is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Boston University. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from Brown University. He has previously been a postdoctoral fellow at the Public Affairs Research Institute in Johannesburg, South Africa and a lecturer at University of the Witwatersrand. His research is on democracy and protest in […]