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 […]

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 […]

Onjoli Palmer

Onjoli Palmer (she/her) is a passionate student at Boston University, majoring in Anthropology at the College of Arts and Sciences and minoring in Film/TV through the College of Communication. She explores the intersection of culture, storytelling, and visual media to broaden her understanding of how people and the stories they carry shape the world we […]

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

An Vu Minh Pham majored in Economics at Boston University. 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 pushed him to consider a career in public service. He firmly believes in the importance […]

Donna Pincus

My primary research interests include the assessment and treatment of children’s fears and anxieties, and I am especially interested in developing new treatments for young children with anxiety disorders. In addition, other areas of research interest include children’s coping with everyday stress, risk and resilience factors affecting the development of child psychopathology, and psychological factors […]

Spencer Piston

Spencer Piston is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Boston University. He received his PhD in 2014 from the University of Michigan. His research examines the politics of oppression in the United States, focusing on race, class, public opinion, political behavior, elections, the welfare state, and the criminal justice system.