Darien Alexander Williams
Urban H Interests: Heat, Housing, Health Darien Alexander Williams is an assistant professor in the Macro Practice Department with a focus on environmental & climate justice. His research broadly engages Black and Muslim urban planning history, hurricane disaster recovery, climate change, and community organizing. Williams’ research examines methods of counter-institution building developed by Black and […]
Brandy Barents
Brandy Barents has been teaching in the Writing Program since 2007. Her recent seminars explore the lives and works of Massachusetts writers; the history, films, and literature of Boston; contemporary theater; and the plight of the unhoused in Boston. Brandy loves traveling and living abroad: she taught English in Japan for three years and Irish […]
Mary Battenfeld
Mary Battenfeld comes to BU’s American and New England Studies Program from Wheelock College, where she was a tenured full professor of Humanities and Chair of General Education. At Wheelock, she served on numerous faculty committees, including Faculty Senate and Curriculum Committee, and in 2012 was awarded the Edward H. Ladd Award for Academic Excellence […]
Sarabeth Broder-Fingert, MD
Sarabeth Broder-Fingert, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Boston University School of Medicine. She is passionate about developing and testing interventions to help improve the lives of children at risk and also understanding how and why these interventions are implemented. In 2012 she received funding in the form of a HRSA-funded T32 […]
Jacob Brown
Urban-H Interests: Housing, Mental Health Jacob Brown is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Boston University. He joined the Department and Boston University in 2023, after receiving his Ph.D. in Political Science at Harvard University. His primary research focuses on where people live, and how where they live influences their politics. […]
Deborah Carr
Deborah Carr is director of the Center of Innovation in Social Science and A&S Distinguished Professor of sociology. She is a life course sociologist who uses survey data and quantitative methods to study social factors linked with health and well-being in later life. She has written extensively on inequality in old age, death and dying, […]
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 […]
Megan J. Elias
Megan J. Elias is a historian whose work and research explore the rich history of food and culture through prisms of food writing, business, and home economics. Dr. Elias has designed and taught classes in the areas of food studies, food in world history, food and gender, and food memoir. Elias is the author of […]
Bahar Erbas
Urban H Interests: Heat, Health Bahar Erbas teaches various courses at the undergraduate and master’s level, including Environmental Economics and Public Economics. She works on empirical topics related to environmental, resource and energy economics and public economics. Her research mainly focuses on environmental regulations and climate change. She has public sector experience at the US Department […]
Jonathan Feingold
Jonathan Feingold’s scholarship explores the relationship between race, law, and the mind sciences. Much of his recent research has interrogated how and why various American legal regimes, including equal protection doctrine, function to reinforce and reproduce racial hierarchy. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in the California Law Review, Northwestern University Law Review, Utah […]