Hao Liu

Originally from Guangzhou, China, Hao holds an undergraduate degree in Journalism and earned a master’s degree in advertising at Boston University’s College of Communications. Since 2017, content creation has been one of Hao’s passions. Through self-made content, like vlogs and other videos, he gained over 100,000 followers and accumulated over 5 million views on his […]

Josh Lown

Dr. Josh Lown received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Michigan State University. Soon after finishing his master’s program in social work, he moved to the Boston area to begin his PhD in social work, where his dissertation focused on exploring how community members experience gentrification in East Boston, where he currently (and lovingly) reside. […]

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 […]

Katharine Lusk

Katharine Lusk was Co-Director and Founding Executive Director of the Boston University Initiative on Cities, which spearheads university-wide programs and research, including the national Menino Survey of Mayors, place-based experiential learning for students and multi-stakeholder events. She has a track record of discipline-spanning research collaboration with public health researchers, environmental scientists, social workers, political scientists, […]

Timothy Maguire

Timothy J. Maguire is the Biogeochemistry Section Lead at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. With a Ph.D. from Boston University, he has conducted influential research on the effects of human populations, urban infrastructure, and agriculture on biogeochemical cycles. Tim’s expertise and postdoctoral work at the University of Michigan Collaborative Institute for Great Lakes […]

Richard Maloney

Richard G Maloney, PhD, FRSA is a Clinical Associate Professor and Director of the Performing Arts Administration graduate program at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, and an Affiliated Faculty member of the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University. He teaches courses in performing arts administration, cultural and […]

Giovanna Marcolongo

Giovanna Marcolongo is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the CLEAN (Crime: Law and Economic ANalysis) Research Unit of Bocconi University. She received an Early Stage Urban Research Award from the IOC in 2018.

Alexandria McKenzie

Alexandria McKenzie is a Junior studying Political Science with a minor in African American and Black Diaspora Studies. Alex is originally from Rochester, NY. At BU, she’s involved in the Black Student Task Force, an initiative to establish a center dedicated to uplifting Black Students on campus. She also loves music and hosts 2 radio […]

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 […]