Michelle Amazeen
Michelle Amazeen is the Associate Dean of Research and an Associate Professor of Mass Communication at Boston University’s College of Communication. She also directs the Communication Research Center. Dr. Amazeen’s research focuses on persuasion and misinformation, exploring effects of misinformation and efforts to correct it. For her dissertation at Temple University, Michelle wrote about the accuracy of […]
Mark Araujo
Mark Araujo is a designer, artist, educator, and community engagement specialist with a strong background in civic design, food justice, and environmentalism. He is passionate about helping others through the power of intentional and impact-oriented design. Mark is currently the Community Engagement Manager with the Boston Food Forest Coalition where he supports neighbors in organizing, designing, and […]
Jaelyn Carr
Jaelyn Carr is in a combined BA/MS program at Boston University, where she studies Environmental Analysis and Policy (BA) and Energy and Environment (MS), with an expected graduation in 2026. Her work spans youth leadership development and lobbying with Our Climate and the Massachusetts Youth Climate Coalition, grassroots organizing to defend public green space with Franklin Park Defenders, federal […]
Jodi Cranston
Jodi Cranston is a professor of renaissance art at Boston University. She is the author of two books, The Poetics of Portraiture in the Renaissance (Cambridge University Press, 2000) and The Muddied Mirror: Materiality and Facture in Titian’s Later Paintings (Penn State University Press, 2010); editor and contributor to Venetian Painting Matters, 1450-1750 (Brepols, 2014); and has contributed several articles […]
Julia Cumes
Julia Cumes is a South African-born photographer and visual storyteller based on Cape Cod. Her work explores themes of identity, belonging, cultural resilience, and environmental justice, with a strong focus on community-centered narratives. With a background in photojournalism, she has documented climate change–related disasters and their impacts on communities, from Cape Town’s water crisis to hurricanes, […]
Joanna Davidson
Joanna Davidson is an associate professor of anthropology and faculty director of BU’s Society of Fellows. She has conducted ethnographic research in rural Guinea-Bissau, West Africa since 2001 and has written a monograph (Sacred Rice, 2016) two edited volumes (Opting Out: Women Messing with Marriage around the World, 2022 and Pathos and Power: Interdisciplinary Perspective on Widowhood […]
Barbara Espinosa Barrera
Barbara Espinosa Barrera works at GreenRoots as the Environmental Justice and Health Equity Organizer. She is passionate about sharing science, health, and environmental justice information by telling stories. Barbara was a 2023 Pulitzer Center Reporting Fellow, traveling to Ecuador to report on an active volcano near her hometown. She is a graduate of the BU School of Public Health […]
Roy Grundmann
Roy Grundmann is an associate professor of film and media studies at Boston University College of Communication. Motivated by his longtime interest in maritime history, he has investigated the role of ocean liners as material objects, symbols, and mediums for transportation, with a specific interest in linking the question of the social or environmental landscape to […]
James Howard Hill Jr.
James Howard Hill Jr. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Religion at Boston University. He teaches courses and conducts research in American religions and public humanities, with particular attention to Black study, religion and politics of US popular culture, political theory, Black political thought, modernity, ecology, coloniality, and religious conceptual methodologies. His work approaches […]
Yi Grace Ji
Yi Grace Ji is an award-winning researcher and an assistant professor at BU’s College of Communication. She serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Public Relations Research and Public Relations Review and on the advisory committee of the International Public Relations Research Conference (IPRRC). Her work examines how organizations navigate sociopolitical discourse and emerging […]