PhD Advisors at Boston College 波士顿学院
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Aaron Stump
John R. and Pamela Egan Chair of Computer Science Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
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Adnan Zulfiqar
Associate Professor · Boston College Law School
His research focuses on critically examining frameworks underlying legal discourse in both domestic and global contexts, with a special interest in the concept of duty/obligation and the idea of discretion in the law. His primary fields of inquiry have been criminal law and proce…
Aeron Hunt
Associate Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Victorian Literature and Culture; Literature and Economic Life; The Novel; Victorian Popular and Mass Culture; Gender and Sexuality
Alan L. Kafka
Associate Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Geophysics, Earthquake Science, Environmental Systems, and Community Science for the Greater Good
Aleksandar (Sasha) Tomic
Associate Dean, Strategy, Innovation, & Technology; Program Director, Master of Science in Applied Economics · Woods College of Advancing Studies
Minimum Wage
Labor Market
Stock Market
European Union
Economic Policy
Economics of Immigration
Economics of Education
Alexander Saint-Widow
· Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
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Ali Kadivar
Associate Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Politics, Comparative Historical Analysis, Social Movements, Global Sociology, Middle East, Iran
Ali Kulez
Assistant Professor, Hispanic Studies · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
20th-21st Century Latin American Literatures and Cultures, Food Studies, Global South Studies, Diaspora/Border Studies, Critical Theory, Digital Humanities
Alicia H. Munnell
Professor, Peter F. Drucker Chair in Mgmt Sciences, Finance, Carroll School of Management · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Retirement, pensions, social insurance
Allison Curseen
Cooney Family Assistant Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
African American and 19th-century American Literature and Culture; Performance and Performance Studies; Child Studies; Theories of Fugitivity and Unruliness.
Alyssa Goldman
Associate Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Social inequality, health and health disparities, aging and the life course, social networks, crime and criminal justice system contact, neighborhoods and the social environment.
Amanda Labriola
· Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
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Amey Victoria Adkins-Jones
Assistant Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Mariology, Protestant systematic theologies, Black feminist and Womanist thought, theological anthropology, iconography and visual theory, human trafficking, prison industrial complex, technology and artificial intelligence, theology and the US South
Amy Boesky
Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Medical Humanities; Creative Nonfiction; Memoir; Representations of Self
Andrea Vicini, S.J.
Department Chair, Michael P. Walsh Professor of Bioethics, Professor of Theological Ethics · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Theological Bioethics, Global Public Health, Environmental Issues, Biotechnologies, Reproductive Technologies, End of Life Issues, Medical Ethics, Genetics, Fundamental Moral Theology.
Andrew A. Dwyer
Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Genomics, reproductive endocrinology, rare diseases, health disparities
Andrew Culbreth
Assistant Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Ancient Greek Philosophy
Ethics
Moral Psychology
Andrew Sofer
Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
theatre/performance studies; Shakespeare and early modern theatre and drama; modern and contemporary theatre and drama; theatre and philosophy; Beckett studies; prop studies; invisibility studies; and creative writing (poetry)
Angela Ards
Associate Professor; Director of the Journalism Program · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
African American Literature; Contemporary American Literature; Cultural Studies; Literary Journalism; Narratives of Place
Angie Johnston
Assistant Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Angie Johnston's work investigates the origins of human teaching and learning by comparing human learning to that of domesticated dogs. To address these questions, she works with children and pet dogs from the local community to pinpoint which aspects of human learning are unique…
Ann Lucas
Associate Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Ethnomusicology, the music traditions of the Persian and Arabic-speaking Near East, the history of music in Iran, the relationship between cultural upheaval and musical change.
Ann Wolbert Burgess
Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Psychiatric/mental health response patterns of crime victims; internet crimes against children
Anna Klarare
Associate Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Health Equity Minority Health, Palliative Care, Cancer, Health and well-being
Anne Trout
Bass · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
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Arissa Oh
Associate Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Twentieth-century United States; U.S. immigration, race, and gender; Asian-American history; family and kinship
Arthur Lewbel
Barbara A. and Patrick E. Roche Professor of Economics · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Econometrics, Consumer Demand
Ashley Duggan
Professor of Health Communication · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Relationship science, human communication research, interpersonal communication, health communication, primary healthcare
Aurelia Campbell
Associate Professor, East Asian Art History · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Chinese architecture
Buddhist material culture
Art of the imperial court
Mortuary arts
Materials and materiality
Craft and technology
Sino-Tibetan cultural exchange
Avner Ash
Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
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Ben Fox
Oboe · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
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Benedetta Flebus
Associate Professor of Physics · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Quantum many-body dynamics in hybrid solid-state systems; Dissipation-based approaches to quantum information science; Non-Hermitian topological phenomena; Chiral phonons in quantum materials; Spintronics.
Benjamin Braude
Associate Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Race and the construction of collective identities in the Middle East and Europe; Ottoman history; Jewish history
Benjamin Howard
Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
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Binta Zahra Diop
Assistant Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
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Boyd Taylor Coolman
Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
An historical theologian of medieval Catholicism, Coolman’s research interests lie in the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries, with a focus on the Victorine and early Franciscan traditions, on the emergence of scholastic theology, and on medieval mystical theologies.
Brian Gareau
Professor, Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Environmental Sociology, Science, Knowledge and Technology, Globalization, Rural Sociology/Agrofood Studies, Global Environmental Governance
Brian K. Smith
Honorable David S. Nelson Chair; Associate Dean for Research; Professor, Computer Science Department · Lynch School of Education and Human Development
Design of Computer-Based Learning Environments
Human-Computer Interaction
Out-of-School Learning
Computer Science Education
Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
Brian Lehmann
Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
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Brian Robinette
Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Phenomenology
Hermeneutics
Mimetic Theory
Mystical Theology
Contemplative Practice
Trinitarian Theology
Theologies of Creation
Brian Zhou
Associate Professor of Physics · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Experimental condensed matter; quantum information science; atomic-scale defect centers in diamond. Fast, noise-resistant quantum control of single and coupled spins. Quantum sensing and imaging of magnetism, transport, and light-matter interactions in quantum materials.
Brian Zimmerman
· Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
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Brittney van de Water
Associate Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Tuberculosis, TB/HIV, child health, sub-Saharan Africa, implementation science, human resources for health
Brooke Magnus
Associate Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Measurement of behavioral and health outcomes; item response theory; approaches to modeling zero inflation in survey data; categorical data analysis; psychometrics
Bryan Ranger
Assistant Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Medical devices and instrumentation, Ultrasound, Imaging, Global Health, Digital Health, AI/Machine Learning, Sensing, Human factors/usability
C-K Cheung
Associate Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
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C. Shawn McGuffey
Professor, Director of Graduate Admissions · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Childhood, Family, Race/Class/Gender, Qualitative Methods, Social Psychology, Trauma, Violence
Caleb Ashley
NSF Ascend Fellow · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
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Carlo Rotella
Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
American Studies
Urban literature and culture
American literature
Nonfiction writing
Caroline Smith
Straus Family Sesquicentennial Assistant Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Dr. Smith's research program is focused on better understanding developmental interactions between the nervous and immune systems. In particular, the lab studies the roles of microglia, the resident immune cells of the brain, and the gut microbiome, in organizing social neural ci…
Catherine Cornille
Professor; Newton College Alumnae Chair of Western Culture · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Theology of Religions, the theory of Interreligious Dialogue, questions in Hindu-Christian and Buddhist-Christian Comparative Theology, methods in Comparative Theology
Cathy Della Lucia
Assistant Professor, Studio Art · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
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Charles Derber
Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Political economy, political sociology, environmental sociology, and social change.
Charles Hefling
Associate Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Christology: the person and work of Christ
Theology and philosophy of Bernard Lonergan
The Book of Common Prayer
History and theology of Anglicanism
Charles R. Gallagher, S.J.
Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
American Catholic history; Vatican diplomacy; U.S. diplomatic history; 19th- & 20th-century American social history; American religious history; history of the Holocaust
Chelsey Grasso
· Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
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Chia-Kuang (Frank) Tsung
Associate Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
The ultimate goal of our research program is to develop high-performance catalysts to respond to the current energy crisis. Our principal strategy is to precisely control the architecture and composition of the materials at the nanoscale by the means of wet chemistry and vapor-ph…
Christina Klein
Professor; Director, Ph.D. Program · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Korea; Film, Music, & Popular Culture
Christopher F. Baum
Professor of Economics and Social Work · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Applied Econometrics, Public Health, Financial Economics
Christopher Polt
Associate Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
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Christopher Sean Lee
Barry Family/Goldman Sachs Endowed Professorship in Nursing · Connell School of Nursing
Cardiovascular disease; heart failure; chronic illness management; patient and care partner management of chronic illness; advanced statistical methods
Christy Pottroff
Assistant Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
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Clara Sandler
Voice · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
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Colleen Taylor
Assistant Professor, English & Irish Studies · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
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Conevery Bolton Valencius
Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
U.S. environmental history; history of the earth sciences; history of medicine and health; energy history; history of seismology; women’s health; history of the U.S. Civil War; travel narratives; the American West; 19th-century American history
Corrine Y. Jurgens
Department Chairperson and Professor · Connell School of Nursing
Heart failure, symptom perception, self-care, psychometrics, biobehavioral factors
Courtney Elkin Mohler
Associate Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
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Crystal Tiala
Chairperson of the Music Department; Professor, Theatre Department · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
My primary research is the creative artistry in the field of scenic design that combines visual composition, organizing architectural space and impacting an audience viscerally.
My secondary research explores the formative impact of a college education in the arts. This qualitati…
Cynthia L. Lyerly
Associate Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
American women, with a special interest in gender ideology; religion, women and race; and the history of the South
Cyril P. Opeil, S.J.
Associate Professor of Physics · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Thermo-physical properties of meteorites and asteroid formation.
Nanocomposite thermoelectric material development and characterization.
Electronic structure of martensite and shape memory alloys.
Célia Abele
Assistant Professor of French · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
18th- and 19th-century literature, thought, and history of science; material culture; environmental humanities; the novel, including Modernism (Proust, and also English and German prose Modernism).
Dana Sajdi
Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Islamic history; Arabic and Ottoman historiography; urban history; popular history; book history; topography; Geographic Information Systems
Daniel Bowles
Associate Professor, German Studies · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Postwar and contemporary literature and culture, satire and genre studies, intertextuality, gender studies, literary theory, the fantastic, madness, modernism, music and literature.
Daniel Joslyn-Siemiatkoski
Professor; Kraft Family Chair, Director, Center for Christian-Jewish Learning · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
History of Jewish-Christian Relations
Christian-Jewish Comparative Theology
Anti-Judaism and Race
Daniel M. Callahan
Associate Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
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Daniel McKaughan
Associate Professor; Convener of the M.A. program · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Philosophy of Religion (Nature, Value and Rationality of Faith)
Epistemology
History and Philosophy of Science
David Broido
Professor of Physics · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Our research is in theoretical condensed matter physics focused on materials property prediction using first principles theoretical/computational approaches. Emphasis is on the phonon and electron transport properties of novel materials. Current projects include identifying mate…
David G. Hunter
Margaret O'Brien Flatley Chair of Catholic Theology · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Hunter's research interests lie in the field of Patristic studies, with special emphasis on the writings of Augustine, Ambrosiaster, Jerome, Ambrose and other Latin writers. He has written extensively on issues pertaining to marriage, celibacy, and asceticism in ancient Christia…
David Healey
Trumpet; Director, Boston College Marching Band and Boston College Symphonic Band · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
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David Hopkins
Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
American political parties, elections, Congress, voting behavior, public opinion, political geography, research methods
David Quigley
Professor, Robert L. and Judith T. Winston Provost and Dean of Faculties · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Nineteenth-century United States; urban history; Civil War and Reconstruction; America and the world
David Treumann
Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
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David Vanderhooft
Associate Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Professor Vanderhooft's research interests revolve around the Hebrew Scriptures, especially the Former and Latter Prophets. Historical, cultural, theological, and comparative analyses of ancient Israel's literature dominate his scholarship. The relationship between Israel and the…
David W. Johnson
Associate Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Phenomenology
Comparative Philosophy
Japanese Philosophy
Intersubjectivity
Aesthetics
Dawei Chen
Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
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Demetrius Murphy
Assistant Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Race and Ethnicity; Urban Sociology; Culture; Economic Sociology
Dennis Hale
Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
American Political Thought; The Founding; Modern States; Citizenship; Law and Politics; Local Government
Dermot Moran
Professor; Joseph Chair in Catholic Philosophy · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Phenomenology
Philosophy of Mind and Consciousness
Embodiment
Neoplatonism
Medieval Philosophy
Medieval Christian Mysticism
Devin Pendas
Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
German history; modern Europe; legal history; history of mass violence and war
Diana Bowser
Professor and Associate Dean for Research and Integrated Science William F. Connell School of Nursing · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Health Economics, health policy, health financing and payment, workforce, health inequality, and maternal and child health
Diane-Jo Bart-Plange
Assistant Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Racism, attitudes, and discrimination. Social cognition and perception, intergroup relations
Dieter T. Roth
Associate Professor; Director of Graduate Studies · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Synoptic Gospels, Parables, Marcion, New Testament Textual Criticism
Donald Cox
Professor; Assistant Chair and Director of Undergraduate Studies · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Labor Economics, Economics of Intergenerational Transfers
Donald Fishman
Associate Professor and Assistant Chair · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
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Donglai Wei
Assistant Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
The interplay between biological sciences and computer vision: building computational models for biomedical image analysis (e.g., Connectomics) and examining brain mechanisms to guide machine video understanding.
Dubi Kelmer
Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
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Dylan Thurston
Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
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Eddie Bonilla
Assistant Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Latinx and Latin American history; African American history; Asian American history; global communism; comparative race studies; labor; imperialism and capitalism
Edson Severnini
Associate Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Environmental & Energy Economics, Economic History, Labor Economics, Applied Microeconomics
Ehri Ryu
Associate Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Ehri Ryu’s primary research interests are in the development and evaluation of statistical methods for analyzing multilevel multivariate data. Her research focuses on structural equation modeling and multilevel structural equation modeling as general frameworks that can be applie…