Dolores Acevedo-Garcia
Dolores Acevedo-Garcia is a professor of Human Behavior, Research, & Policy and director of the Institute for Equity in Child Opportunity & Healthy Development (IECOHD). Her research focuses on the social determinants of racial/ethnic inequities in health (e.g., residential segregation, neighborhood inequality, immigrant adaptation); the role of social policies in reducing those inequities (e.g., housing, […]
Azer Bestavros
Azer Bestavros is the Founding Director of the BU Hariri Institute for Computing at Boston University. He is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science in the College of Arts and Sciences and holds affiliated appointments in Electrical and Computer Engineering and in Systems Engineering. Created in 2011, the Institute supports the BU computing community […]
Raul Fernandez
Dr. Raul Fernandez is a senior lecturer in the Educational Leadership & Policy Studies program at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development, where he studies, writes, and teaches about inequities in education. Previously, he served as associate dean for equity, diversity & inclusion. He is also an appointee to the Racial Imbalance […]
Eric Gordon
Dr. Gordon studies technology, democracy, and public engagement, with a specific focus on the role of narrative, data, and algorithms on institutional trust and governance. He specializes in collaborative research and design processes and has served as an expert advisor for local and national governments, as well as NGOs worldwide, designing responsive processes that help […]
Adam Guren
Adam Guren is an empirical macroeconomist. His work is primarily at the intersection of the housing market, household finance, and the macroeconomy, encompassing house prices, the 2000s housing boom and bust, housing wealth effects, foreclosures and foreclosure policy, mortgage design, and macroprudential policy. He has also studied labor markets, trade, and the macroeconomy. He teaches PhD […]
Sean Kealy
Sean Kealy is a clinical professor of law at Boston University’s School of Law, where his research and teaching focus on the legislative process and how legislative systems address policy issues at the local, state, and federal levels. He graduated from Temple Law School in 1994. He served as an assistant attorney general from 1995 […]
Makarand Mody
Makarand Mody, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Hospitality Marketing at the Boston University School of Hospitality Administration (SHA). He received his Ph.D. in Hospitality Management from Purdue University, and also holds a Master’s degree from the University of Strathclyde in Scotland. He currently serves as the Chair of Undergraduate Programs at SHA and the […]
Anne Short Gianotti
Anne Short Gianotti’s research and teaching focus on the social and political dimensions of conservation, natural resource management, and climate change. By integrating concepts and approaches across the broad fields of natural resource management, institutions and the environment, and political ecology, she seeks to understand better how socio-political and ecological processes shape human interactions with […]
Christine Slaughter
Christine M. Slaughter is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Boston University. She received her PhD in 2021 from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Before joining the department, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Politics at Princeton University, and the University of California, Irvine. Her research examines African American […]
Benjamin Sovacool
Benjamin K. Sovacool is the Director of the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS) and a Professor in the Department of Earth & Environment. He works as a researcher and consultant on issues pertaining to global energy policy and politics, energy security, energy justice, climate change mitigation, and climate change adaptation. More specifically, his […]