Chenyue Lei

Chenyue is a PhD candidate in the Economics department. Her research interests lie in the broad areas of macroeconomics, with a focus on dynamism, productivity and growth. Her recent work studies the survival of indebted zombie firms and credit misallocation in Europe during the sovereign debt crisis. Currently, she is exploring how various credit policies would […]

Katherine Levine Einstein

Katherine Einstein joined the Political Science department in 2012 after receiving her Ph.D. in Government and Social Policy at Harvard University. Her research and teaching interests broadly include American public policy, racial and ethnic politics, political geography, and urban politics and policy. Her first book, Do Facts Matter? Information and Misinformation in Democratic Politics (with Jennifer Hochschild, […]

Dan Li

Dan Li is the current Urban-H Associate Director of Heat, joining our Urban-H team on July 1, 2024. In this capacity, he will be at the forefront of the IOC, spearheading the development of innovative solutions to urban heat challenges and our center’s ongoing efforts to work on policy-oriented solutions to mitigate urban heat as a […]

Ting Wei Li

Ting Wei Li is the IOC’s Communications Manager and Administrator. In this role, he facilitates the IOC’s branding, messaging, and design strategies, manages events, and supervises student staff. Prior to joining the IOC, Ting was a graduate of Boston University’s College of Arts & Sciences, magna cum laude, majoring in Political Science and History. Born in China, […]

Ariana Lim

Ari (she/her) is a sophomore in the College of Arts & Sciences pursuing a BA in economics and a minor in French from Harrington Park, New Jersey. She joined the IOC as a research assistant! As an economics major, I’m passionate about learning about behavioral economics, a combination of economics and psychology that helps to […]

Meghann Lucy

Read more about Meghann’s experience as the 2020 MONUM Summer Fellow Meghann is a PhD student in Sociology at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, whose research focuses on consumption, economic sociology, and medical sociology. Before starting her PhD, she worked for the children’s book publisher Scholastic and for the Cardiovascular Research Foundation. Meghann […]

Yaxiong Ma

Yaxiong Ma is a former Doctoral student in the Department of Earth & Environment. He received an Early Stage Urban Research Award in 2017.

Benjamin Marx

Benjamin Marx is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics at Boston University. His research interests are mainly in political economy and development. One strand of his research studies the determinants of political accountability, state capacity, and voting behavior in developing countries. He has worked in various countries including Kenya, Senegal, and Uganda as […]

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