Carrie Preston
Dr. Preston’s research and teaching interests include modernist literature, performance, and dance, feminist and queer theory, and transnational and postcolonial studies. Modernism’s Mythic Pose: Gender, Genre, Solo Performance, was released in Oxford University Press’s Modernist Literature and Culture Series in 2011 and received the De La Torre Bueno Prize in dance studies. A website supplementing Learning to […]
Richard B. Primack
Richard Primack is interested in the impact of climate change on the phenology plants, birds and insects, as well as conservation biology, noise pollution, and the ecological and conservation impacts of the pandemic. He received an Early Stage Urban Research Award from the IOC in 2019.
Nayeli Quiles
Nayeli Quiles studies Political Science and Sociology at Boston University. A lifelong Boston resident, she has worked in Massachusetts politics, advocating for youth-led climate legislation, reproductive justice, improved access to constituent resources, and voter education through internships with city councilors, state representatives, and the Massachusetts Office of Veterans Services. As a research assistant on campus, […]
Talal Rahim
Talal Rahim, a PhD candidate in Economics at the BU College of Arts and Sciences, is fulfilling his Summer Fellowship with the City of Providence, RI. Rahim is serving as Mayor Jorge Elorza‘s Data Science Fellow where he will be focused on projects that include building an energy efficiency database and a property inspections database.
Sasa Ramos
Sasa (he/they) is a first-generation college student in the College of Arts & Sciences, majoring in Sociology with a minor in Urban Studies. Born and raised in San Francisco to Filipino immigrants, he draws inspiration from the city’s rich history of community organizing. His work is rooted in storytelling as a tool for advocacy, particularly […]
Kimberly Rhoten
Read about Kimberly’s experience as the Summer 2021 MONUM Fellow Kimberly Rhoten is an attorney, academic, and advocate. They are a PhD student in Sociology at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, whose research focuses on the legal treatment of non-traditional families and non-monogamous sexualities as well as the structural inequities of mass incarceration. […]
Alessia Riccio
Alessia Riccio is a graduate in Public Relations from the College of Communication with a minor in Political Science. Through the NLC Menino Fellowship, Riccio spent the fall semester of 2016 under the mentorship of IOC Director and Political Science Professor Graham Wilson in an on-campus Directed Study program. She spent the 2017 spring semester in Boston […]
Imani Roberson
Read more about Imani’s experience as the 2019 MORRE Summer Fellow Imani Roberson majored in Public Relations and Political science. She’s also a proud Detroiter. On campus, Imani is heavily involved in the Inner Strength Gospel Choir and was the president of Boston University’s Chapter of the Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA). Imani […]
Faith Rynda
Read more about Faith’s experience as the 2020 MORRE Summer Fellow Faith majored in political science on a 4-year BA/MA program track and minoring in innovation & entrepreneurship. She is from the Bay Area, California where she lives with her family and two dachshunds. She plans to pursue a career in government, and her policy […]
Caterina Scaramelli
My research centers on mutual constitutions of ecologies, scientific expertise, and infrastructures as conduits for people’s claims about livelihood and moral subjectivity. I am completing a large ethnographic and archival research project that examines the dynamic multivalence of wetlands. In Turkey, as in many other places, the wetland became an important site of everyday contestations over […]