Core Team | Fields | Initiative on Cities

Danielle Mulligan

Danielle Mulligan is the Associate Director of the Boston University Initiative on Cities (IOC). In this role, she works with the IOC’s Executive Director and Director to help shape and carry out the center’s strategic initiatives such as the center’s new Urban-H agenda. Danielle joins the IOC from the Scholars Strategy Network (SSN), with a […]

Natalie Smith

Natalie Smith is a Ph.D. student in the Sociology Department at Boston University. With a focus on urban sociology, her interests include gentrification, displacement, housing injustice, urban inequalities, and the Right to the City. She has previously worked on research that explored the loss of council (public) housing and community displacement due to urban regeneration […]

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 […]