Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future Announces 2025 Graduate Summer Fellows
On May 21, 2025, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future announced the names of eight Boston University graduate students for this year’s Graduate Summer Fellows Program. A 10-week long intensive fellowship starting from May 27, this Pardee initiative affords master’s and PhD students a unique opportunity to pursue their independent research while they partake in programs advancing interdisciplinary research and learning outcomes. At the fellowship’s conclusion, each student will submit a substantive research paper which will be reviewed by the Pardee Center for a possible publication.
From leadership to history to environment, the eight scholars in the 2025 program represent seven academic departments of the university. Meet this year’s summer fellows:
- Kasarachi Aluka-Omitiran, SPH, DrPH, Leadership, Management & Policy
With an extensive background in public health, Kasarachi’s investigation focuses on how countries can evolve into global health leaders using robust health systems governance, improved health security systems, and strategic health diplomacy. - Martin Aucoin, GRS, PhD, Anthropology
A PhD candidate for sociocultural anthropology, Martin’s summer study is dedicated to exploring America’s growth in export-focused poultry production and its subsequent effects abroad as well as the moral narratives around industrial chicken. - Warren Dennis, GRS, PhD, History
A doctoral candidate exploring American history in the context of public policy and environmental history, Warren’s research will analyze how policy debates over air quality regulations have transmuted between the 1970 and 1990, mirroring economic and public health issues. - Tyler J. Fuller, GRS, PhD, Religion
A sociologist of religion and a health educator, Tyler will examine how a progressive Catholic parish joined forces with public health practitioners during the pandemic by embracing shared narratives about prevention and risk and the future role of religious communities in public health. - Erin Gable, Pardee, MA, International Affairs — Appleton Schneider Fellow*
Erin brings a decade’s worth of expertise in migration scholarship and immigration legal services to this fellowship. Through her research, she plans to explore a gender-responsive integration model for post-conflict reconstruction and reintegration of forcibly displaced migrants and refugees. - Charlotte Malmborg, GRS, PhD, Earth & Environment
Synthesizing contemporary research about ecosystem recovery after disturbance, Charlotte’s study will exhibit how iterative forecasts of ecosystem responses to disturbances can improve environmental management outcomes. - Kazi Mukitul, GRS, PhD, Sociology
A former political and press officer for the German Embassy in Dhaka, Kazi has broad-ranging scholarly interests including policy, gender, and international development. His summer research will concentrate on the insecurity of South Asian dependent immigrants within American healthcare. - Rashmi Paudel, SPH, DrPH, Leadership, Management & Policy
Rashmi has a vast industrial experience in healthcare with an academic interest in health systems engineering. She will be focusing on developing the Social Burden Score (SBS) Index to measure social and structural impacts on antiretroviral therapy adherence among South African HIV patients.
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*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.
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is an interdisciplinary research center of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University. The center conducts interdisciplinary research on globally important issues that affect the human condition over the course of several decades. Through programs of scholarship, outreach, and education, the Pardee Center works to improve public decision-making and policy and to train future generations of interdisciplinary scholars.