Perri Meldon

Perri is a public historian who specializes in American environmental history. Her dissertation traces the history of Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge and the entanglements of conservation, cultural heritage, and public lands.

Yuhei Miyauchi

Yuhei Miyauchi’s primary research interest is to understand how socio-economic activity is shaped within cities and across regions. Yuhei tackles these questions using a combination of theory and new sources of granular data, such as cell phone, smartphone transaction data and firm-level transaction data. Visit Department of Economics Profile

Amelia Murray-Cooper

Amelia graduated with a dual-degree in the College of Arts & Sciences in Environmental Analysis & Policy and an MS in Energy & Environment. On campus, she served as Managing Editor for the Emerald Review and Marketing Director for BU Clean Tech Club. She was also an active member of the Epsilon Eta professional environmental […]

Avi Nguyen

Read more about Avi’s experience as the Summer 2021 MORRE Fellow Avi Mguyen majored in Political Science and Economics. He is from Boston and grew up in the Dorchester neighborhood. He is involved with grassroots organizing within Dorchester and is passionate about voter registration and police reform. Avi has volunteered and worked with The City […]

Maxwell Palmer

Maxwell Palmer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, the Director of Advanced Programs (BA/MA and Honors Programs), and a Junior Faculty Fellow at the Hariri Institute for Computing. He joined the department and Boston University in 2014, after receiving his Ph.D. in Political Science at Harvard University. His research and teaching interests include American political […]

Songhyun Park

Song is the Doctoral Research Fellow of the Initiative on Cities. She received her B.A. in International Relations and Russian Language & Cultures from Emory University in 2015. After two years working for a start-up company in the education industry and for the UNHCR, Song entered the PhD program in Political Science at Boston University […]

Ayşe Parla

Ayşe Parla’s first book, Precarious Hope: Migration and the Limits of Belonging in Turkey, explores the tension between ethnic privilege and economic precarity through a decade of ethnographic fieldwork with Turkish migrants from Bulgaria as they navigate legal and bureaucratic spheres, as well as the complexities of cultural belonging. The broader theoretical intervention is a […]

Deep Patel

Read more about Deep’s experience as the 2021 Mayor’s Office of Policy & Planning Summer Fellow Deep Patel was in BU’s Kilachand Honors College and College of Arts and Sciences double majoring in Economics and Political Science. Born and raised in New York City, Deep’s interactions with his local and city level officials in the […]

An Pham

Read more about An’s experience as the Summer 2021 City of Chelsea Open Data & Digital Communications Fellow An Pham majored in Economics & Mathematics. Born in Cambridge, An’s family moved back to Vietnam until raising him and his little sister in Toronto, Canada. He took early interests in writing, coding, and history that eventually […]