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 […]
Stephanie Ettinger de Cuba
Stephanie Ettinger de Cuba, PhD, MPH, is an applied health services researcher with methodological expertise in qualitative, survey, and mixed methods. Her research focuses on children and families, health, the intersections of race/ethnicity and nativity, and the structural and policy factors underpinning these relationships. In particular, her expertise is in health inequities experienced by families […]
David Glick
David Glick joined the Political Science department and Boston University in 2011. He is an associate professor. He is also the faculty director of MetroBridge and a co-PI on the Menino Survey of Mayors with BU’s Initiative on Cities. He received his Ph.D. in the Department of Politics at Princeton University and was previously a visiting […]
Joseph Harris
Joseph Harris is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Boston University and IOC MetroBridge Faculty Director. He conducts comparative historical research that lies at the intersection of sociology, political science, and global health. He is author of Achieving Access: Professional Movements and the Politics of Health Universalism (Cornell University Press, 2017). He was recently elected […]
Lucy Hutyra
Professor Lucy Hutyra joined the Faculty of Earth & Environment at Boston University in 2009. Her areas of specialization include urban climate and biogeochemistry, remote sensing, and vegetation ecology. Trained as a physical scientist, Professor Hutyra’s research has become ever more focused on the climate and ecology of cities, working at the science-policy interface. She is […]
Jonathan S. Jay
Dr. Jonathan Jay studies urban health, with a concentration in youth exposure to gun violence, as an assistant professor at Boston University School of Public Health. He works at the intersection of data science and community health, focusing on relationships between the built environment and health and safety risks. He leads Shape-Up, a project using […]
Patrick Kinney
Dr. Kinney joined the School of Public Health faculty in January 2017 as the inaugural Beverly Brown Professor of Urban Health. He was trained as an air pollution epidemiologist at Harvard School of Public Health and came to BU after two decades at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. In his time at […]
Katherine Levine Einstein
Katherine Einstein joined the Political Science department in 2012 after receiving her Ph.D. in Government and Social Policy at Harvard University. Her research and teaching interests broadly include American public policy, racial and ethnic politics, political geography, and urban politics and policy. Her first book, Do Facts Matter? Information and Misinformation in Democratic Politics (with Jennifer Hochschild, […]
Maxwell Palmer
Maxwell Palmer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, the Director of Advanced Programs (BA/MA and Honors Programs), and a Junior Faculty Fellow at the Hariri Institute for Computing. He joined the department and Boston University in 2014, after receiving his Ph.D. in Political Science at Harvard University. His research and teaching interests include American political […]
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 […]