Astraea Augsberger
Astraea Augsberger is interested in child welfare workforce development and the transition to adulthood for court involved youth, and youth participation in decision-making practices. She is currently teaching courses including Introduction to Clinical Practice with Individuals, Families and Groups and Clinical Practice with Individuals. Augsberger is co-leading a research project along with Mary Collins studying […]
Paula Austin
Paula C. Austin is a U.S. historian with a focus on African American history, the history of race and racism, visual culture, urban, education, and women’s history, the history of social science, and the history of childhood. She is particularly interested in interiority and broadening the narrow definitions of intellectual history. Her book, Coming of Age […]
Japonica Brown-Saracino
Japonica Brown-Saracino is an ethnographer who specializes in urban and community sociology, cultural sociology, and the study of race, ethnicity, and sexuality. In 2004, City and Community published her article, “Social Preservationists and the Quest for Authentic Community,” which draws on her study of four gentrifying communities (two small New England towns and two Chicago […]
Paul Carlile
Paul Carlile’s research and publications focus on managing and understanding risks and boundaries in complex systems. In 2014, he received the Questrom Award for Faculty Excellence in Institutional Leadership. Carlile combines an expertise in management and business with a passion for cities and tackling urban issues. He is currently working with the Boston Mayor’s Office […]
Louis Chude-Sokei
Louis Chude-Sokei is a writer and scholar who is currently Professor of English and Director of the African American and Black Diaspora Studies Program at Boston University where he holds the George and Joyce Wein Chair. His books include the award-winning, The Last Darky: Bert Williams, Black on Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora (2005), The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black Technopoetics (2015) and the […]
Phillipe Copeland
Dr. Phillipe Copeland is an Abolitionist and a clinical assistant professor at BU School of Social Work. His personal mission is achieving a world without racism. He pursues this mission through teaching, scholarship and service focused on antiracism. This includes the Black Lives Matter Movement (BLM), health justice, reimagining public safety, and the Scholarship of […]
Stephanie Curenton
Dr. Stephanie M. Curenton is a professor in the Educational Leadership & Policy Studies department at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development and the director of the Center on the Ecology of Early Development (CEED). She is also a senior fellow at the Harvard University Center on the Developing Child and is a nonresident […]
André de Quadros
André de Quadros, music educator, conductor, ethnomusicologist, writer, and human rights activist has conducted and undertaken research in over forty countries. His professional work has taken him to the most diverse settings, spanning professional ensembles, and projects with prisons, peacebuilding and reconciliation, psychosocial rehabilitation, refugees and asylum-seekers, poverty locations, and victims of torture and trauma. Dr. […]
Martin Fiszbein
Martin Fiszbein’s research seeks to understand comparative paths of development in historical perspective, drawing on new empirical approaches and conceptual insights from growth theory, development economics, regional/urban economics, political economy, social psychology, and evolutionary approaches. Adopting a long-run perspective, my papers underscore how “initial conditions” shaping economies early in their history may influence subsequent development […]
Peter Fox-Penner
Dr. Fox-Penner is a Senior Fellow and Founding Director (2016 – 2021) of the Boston University Institute for Sustainable Energy. He was formerly a Professor of Practice at the Questrom School of Business, where he co-directed and is now a Senior Fellow of the Impact Measurement and Allocation Program (IMAP) of research in sustainable finance. In addition, […]