Pardee Center Announces 2025 Graduate Summer Fellows

The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is pleased to announce its 2025 Graduate Summer Fellows. These eight outstanding Boston University graduate students represent seven different academic departments.

Starting May 27, the Graduate Summer Fellows will spend 10 weeks writing research papers while participating in programming designed to advance interdisciplinary research and learning.

The 2025 Graduate Summer Fellows are:

Kasarachi Aluka-Omitiran, SPH, DrPH, Leadership, Management & Policy Kasarachi will explore how countries can strategically position themselves as global health leaders by strengthening health systems governance, enhancing health security systems, and engaging in intentional health diplomacy.

Martin Aucoin, GRS, PhD, Anthropology Martin will analyze the growth of American export-focused poultry production, the dietary transitions this creates in foreign nations, and the circulation of moral narratives about industrial chicken as a global dietary phenomenon.

Warren Dennis, GRS, PhD, History Warren will examine how policy debates over U.S. air quality regulations shifted from 1970 to 1990 to reflect both economic and public health concerns.

Tyler J. Fuller, GRS, PhD, Religion Tyler will analyze and write about how a progressive Catholic parish aligned with public health practitioners during the COVID-19 pandemic by adopting shared narratives about prevention and risk, offering insights into how religious communities can support and collaborate with public health efforts in future crises.

Erin Gable, Pardee, MA, International Affairs – Appleton Schneider Fellow* Erin will research a gender-responsive integration model for post-conflict reconstruction and the reintegration of forcibly displaced migrants and refugees, using comparative case studies to identify scalable, rights-based policy frameworks that promote long-term socioeconomic mobility and preserve skills acquired in displacement.

Charlotte Malmborg, GRS, PhD, Earth & Environment Charlotte will synthesize current research on ecosystem recovery after disturbance and demonstrate how iterative forecasts of ecosystem responses to disturbances can improve environmental management outcomes in a rapidly-changing world.

Kazi Mukitul, GRS, PhD, Sociology Kazi will examine the precarity of South Asian dependent immigrants within the landscape of U.S. healthcare.

Rashmi Paudel, SPH, DrPH, Leadership, Management & Policy Rashmi will develop and validate a Social Burden Score (SBS) Index to quantify the impact of social and structural factors — such as stigma, mental health, substance use, health system barriers, gender inequity, and food insecurity — on antiretroviral therapy adherence among people with HIV in South Africa.

*Each year, a master’s or first-year PhD student is designated the Appleton Schneider Fellow in honor of BU Alumnus Appleton Schneider, who provided a bequest to the Pardee Center endowment to support the Graduate Summer Fellows program.