Kimberly Rhoten
Read about Kimberly’s experience as the Summer 2021 MONUM Fellow Kimberly Rhoten is an attorney, academic, and advocate. They are a PhD student in Sociology at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, whose research focuses on the legal treatment of non-traditional families and non-monogamous sexualities as well as the structural inequities of mass incarceration. […]
Heather Schoenfeld
Professor Heather Schoenfeld’s teaching and research areas include the sociology of law, crime and punishment, and public policy. Her award-winning scholarship focuses on the origins and development of mass incarceration in the United States. She is the author of Building the Prison State: Race and the Politics of Mass Incarceration (University of Chicago Press, 2018). […]
Jessica Simes
Jessica T. Simes is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Boston University with broad interests in punishment, urban inequality, poverty and marginality, and immigration. In her research, she analyzes mass incarceration from a spatial perspective to understand and explain broad patterns of social inequality. Her current book project explores the geography of mass imprisonment using […]
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 […]
Ana Villarreal
Ana Villarreal is an Assistant Professor of Sociology whose research focuses on emotions, cities, violence, and their relations to inequality. Her research looks into how fear and violence in Mexico has deepened class, racial, urban, and civic disparities. She published her first work The Two Faces of Fear: Violence and Inequality in the Mexican Metropolis (Oxford […]
Sean Waddington
Sean (he/him) is a senior at the College of Arts & Sciences, pursuing a BA in political science and sociology. He has been with the IOC as an Office Assistant since his freshman year at BU. As a burgeoning urbanist and policymaker, he enjoys working with the full-time staff to further explore urban issues, supplementing […]
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 […]
Shannon Whittaker
Urban H Interests: Housing, Health, Heat Dr. Shannon Whittaker is a postdoctoral fellow within CISS. She received her Ph.D. from Yale School of Public Health and her Master’s in Public Health from Brown University School of Public Health. Her research interests lie at the intersection of place, race, health, and history, where she examines how social, […]