Andrew Ward
Andrew Ward is a PhD student in the Sociology Department at Boston University. He is focused on urban sociology, investigating municipal and community politics around housing and the regulation of housing markets. Other projects include a study of independent business operations in Central Square, Cambridge. You’ll find Andrew cycling around the city in all weathers […]
Maddie Webster
Maddie is a PhD candidate in the American & New England Studies Program, where she studies urban history and historic preservation with a focus on Boston. Her dissertation explores Black Bostonians’ historic preservation efforts from the late nineteenth century onward, a story that comes into clearer focus by reframing what activities constitute preservation work. As a […]
Robert Weller
Robert Weller’s research currently focuses on two broad projects. The first concerns China’s extremely rapid urbanization – bulldozers have flattened farms and houses, villages and towns, graves and temples. Millions of people have been resettled in the process, displacing them socially as much as physically. His project concerns resettled people at the edge of the […]
Carolyn White
Carolyn L. White is director of the Preservation Studies Program and Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Boston University. Her scholarship focuses on cultural heritage, the materiality of daily life, the built environment, active site archaeology, and the intersection of art and archaeology. Her research spans four centuries, focusing on personal adornment and […]
Shannon Whittaker
Urban H Interests: Housing, Health, Heat Dr. Shannon Whittaker is a postdoctoral fellow within CISS. She received her Ph.D. from Yale School of Public Health and her Master’s in Public Health from Brown University School of Public Health. Her research interests lie at the intersection of place, race, health, and history, where she examines how social, […]
Johnathan Williams
Read more about Johnathan’s experience as the 2018 City of Providence Department of Innovation Fellow Johnathan Williams received a Ph.D. in History from the College of Arts and Sciences. He received a BA and an MA from the University of Northern Iowa, where he focused on the social and cultural movements of the Reagan era. […]
Diana Wylie
Diana Wylie has published four books on southern and North African history: A Little God, The Twilight of Patriarchy in a Southern African Chiefdom (1990); Starving on a Full Stomach: Hunger and the Triumph of Cultural Racism in Modern South Africa (2001; winner of Herskovits Prize 2002); Art + Revolution, The Life and Death of […]
Sarah Zureiqat
Sarah is former IOC Office Assistant, with a Bachelor of Arts in Architectural Studies at the College of Arts and Sciences, with a minor in Urban Studies. On campus, she was the President of the Art History Association and Vice President of the Undergraduate Architecture Association. Prior to working with the IOC, she interned virtually […]