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Research-focused faculty at Boston College, listed for PhD / Master's applicants. Find professors whose research matches your interests, and check hiring signals before you reach out.
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⭐ Currently Hiring PhD Students (3)
Professors at Boston College with active hiring signals for PhD students — reach out if your research matches.
Jinhee Park
Associate Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Dr. Park is currently accepting doctoral students interested in pediatric feeding.
Prevention and management of feeding problems in infants and young children with medical complexity, Development of feeding skills during infancy and childhood, Biobehavioral methods, Measure development
Michael Glass
Assistant Professor, Director of the Honors Program · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Professor Glass welcomes inquiries from prospective graduate students interested in the history of capitalism, racial inequality, metropolitan development, and environmental disaster.
Twentieth-century United States; political history; urban history; environmental history; race and capitalism; inequality.
Seth C. Kruckenberg
Associate Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ I am always looking for new students, so for more information about current opportunities please see my personal website on the pages linked below.
Structural Geology and Tectonics, Structural Petrology, Petrofabrics, Textural and Magnetic Fabric Analyses, Geochronology
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Aaron Stump
John R. and Pamela Egan Chair of Computer Science Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Aaron Stump is the John R. and Pamela Egan Chair of Computer Science Professor in the Computer Science Department at Boston College's Morrissey College. His research interests include programming languages, with work on topics such as parametricity and systems composed of opaque …
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
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.
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
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
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
Avner Ash is a Professor of Mathematics at Boston College. His research focuses on number theory, particularly at the intersection of topology, group theory, and Galois theory, with published work on topics such as cohomology and Galois modules.
Ben Fox
Oboe · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Ben Fox is a faculty member in the Music Department at Boston College's Morrissey College of Arts & Sciences, where he serves in a performance role. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Applied Mathematics from Oberlin College and studied under principal teachers John Ferrillo a…
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
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Binta Zahra Diop
Assistant Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
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
Brian Lehmann is a Professor of Mathematics at Boston College, affiliated with the Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences. His research focuses on algebraic geometry, with particular interests in rational curves, moduli spaces, and geometric aspects of Manin's conjecture.
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.
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
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
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
Caleb Ashley is an NSF Ascend Fellow and faculty member in the Mathematics Department at Boston College's Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences. His research interests lie in mathematics, with a focus on topics at the interface of low-dimensional group actions and related areas.…
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
Cathy Della Lucia is an Assistant Professor of Sculpture at Boston College, based in Boston, Massachusetts. A Boston-based artist working predominantly in sculpture, ceramics, and installation, she received a BA in studio art from Xavier University and an MFA in sculpture from Bo…
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
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
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
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
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Clara Sandler
Voice · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Clara Sandler is a faculty member in the Music Department at Boston College’s Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences, where she is listed under the performance area. Her professional work includes performing as a mezzo-soprano, as evidenced by her participation in a recital of so…
Colleen Taylor
Assistant Professor, English & Irish Studies · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
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
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
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
Daniel M. Callahan is an Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Music at Boston College's Morrissey College of Arts & Sciences. A musicologist and dance scholar, his research examines how music has moved people—including dancers, musicians,…
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
David Healey is a trumpet instructor and the Director of the Boston College Marching Band and Boston College Symphonic Band in the Music Department of the Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences at Boston College. His work centers on directing the university's marching and symphon…
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
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
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
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
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
Donald Fishman is an Associate Professor and Assistant Chair in the Communication Department at Boston College's Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences. His teaching and research focus on communication law, crisis communication, public relations, media criticism, broadcast regula…
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
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Dylan Thurston
Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Dylan Thurston is a Professor at Boston College, affiliated with its mathematics department. His research interests lie in mathematics, with recent work focusing on topics such as expansivity, topological growth rates, and rational maps and graph energies. He has presented his re…
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…
Eileen Carroll Sweeney
Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Medieval Philosophy
Philosophy of Language
Theories of the Passions
Political Philosophy
Elisa Magrì
Assistant Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Hegel and German Idealism
Phenomenology of perception and social life
Existentialism
Elisenda Grigsby
Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Elisenda Grigsby is a Professor of Mathematics at Boston College, where she has served as a full professor since 2017. Her research focuses on geometry and topology, with early work in low-dimensional topology, including knot theory and category-theoretic knot invariants.
Elizabeth Broden Arciprete
Assistant Professor · Connell School of Nursing
Her research leverages qualitative and mixed methods to amplify the voices of seriously ill children and their families. Dr. Broden’s research mission is to address suffering among children and families navigating life threatening conditions by building and testing nurse-led appr…
Elizabeth Graver
Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Creative Writing; Fiction; Non-Fiction; Contemporary Literatures of Migration; Literary Historical Fiction; Women's Studies.
Elizabeth Kensinger
Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience: The effect of emotional content on memory; specifically, the cognitive and neural mechanisms through which emotion influences in the vividness and accuracy of memory, and how these influences change across the adult lifespan; research questio…
Elizabeth Kowaleski Wallace
Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
British eighteenth-century literature and culture, feminist and cultural theory, contemporary British culture including drama, the novel, and film, British slave trade memory and representation
Emily Prud'hommeaux
Associate Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Natural language processing, speech signal processing, applications of computing for health and accessibility, computational linguistics.
Emine Fetvacı
Norma Jean Calderwood University Professor in Islamic and Asian Art · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Islamic art & architecture
Painting & arts of the book
Ottoman, Safavid & Mughal art & architecture
Collecting
Artistic patronage & identity
Early-modern courtly societies
Formation of art historical canons
Erik Kniffin
Electric Guitar | Director, Popular Styles Ensemble · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Improvisation techniques and resources with a specialty in clinical axiomatic guitar fingerings
Ethan Baxter
Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Isotope Geochemistry and Geochronology, Tectonics and Metamorphism, Earth History
Eunji Cho
Assistant Professor · Connell School of Nursing
Promoting human flourishing and positive growth in children, adolescents, and young adults with life-threatening conditions
Eve Spangler
Associate Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Inequality and Intersectionality; Classical Sociological Theory; Health, Human Rights and Social Justice in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict; Work Organization: Health and Safety in the Global Economy.
Fabio Schiantarelli
Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Macroeconomics, Applied Econometrics
Farid Farrokhi
Associate Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
International Trade, Spatial Economics, Environmental Economics
Fazel Tafti
Associate Professor of Physics and Graduate Program Director · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Experimental condensed matter physics, topological order, superconductivity, quantum phase transitions, spin liquids, low dimensional magnets, material synthesis, single crystal growth, electrical, thermal, and thermo-electric transport measurements, high pressure and high field…
Fernando Bizzarro
Assistant Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Comparative Politics
Democracy and Political Parties
Latin American Politics
Florence Madenga
Assistant Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Global digital media, journalism, surveillance, censorship, satire, popular culture, post/decolonial methods and approaches
Frances Restuccia
Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Frances Restuccia is a Professor of English at Boston College, where she teaches contemporary literary and cultural theory, modernism, the modern and world novel, and film theory. Her research interests include psychoanalytic theory, philosophy and art, and she is the author of *…
Francis Sullivan, S.J.
Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Ecclesiology, ecumenism, Church history
Francisco Marmolejo Cossio
Assistant Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Francisco Marmolejo Cossio is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Boston College, affiliated with the Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences. His research interests lie at the intersection of Algorithmic Game Theory, Decentralised Consensus Protocols, and Computational …
Franck Salameh
Professor of Near Eastern Studies · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
<b>Middle East Cultural and Intellectual History, and History of Ideas:</b>
<p>Formation of the Modern Middle East</p>
<p>19th and 20th century literature and cultural representation in the Levant and France</p>
<p>Cultural History and Memory (Modern Syria, Lebanon, and Israel)</…
Franziska Seraphim
Associate Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Modern and contemporary Japanese history: social, political, and cultural; historical memory; social movements; relations with Asia; global and comparative history
Gail Hoffman
Associate Professor and Chair · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Gary Michael Gurtler, S.J.
Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Ancient Philosophy
Plotinus
Ethics, Friendship
Spanish Philosophy
George Mohler
Daniel J. Fitzgerald Professor and Chairperson · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Statistical and deep learning approaches to solving problems in spatial, urban and network data science. Several current projects include modeling and causal inference for overdose and social harm event data, fairness and interpretability in criminal justice forecasting, and mod…
Gerald M. Easter
Professor, Department Chairperson · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Russian Politics; Eastern Europe; Modern State; Ethnonationalism; Post-Communist Transitions
Gert Bruhn
Assistant Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Gert Bruhn is an Assistant Professor of German Studies at Boston College, affiliated with the university's Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences. His academic profile is associated with the Department of Eastern, Slavic, and German Studies.
Gi Kim
Assistant Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconomics, Real Estate Finance
Giovanni Pietro Basile
Associate Professor; Director of Graduate Studies · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
History of Modern and Contemporary Philosophy: Kant, Ricœur, Jaspers
Systematic Philosophy: Metaphysics, Hermeneutics, Philosophy of Religion
Gorica Petrovich
Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Neurobiology of motivation and feeding behavior: neural circuitry and plasticity mechanisms of cognitive control of feeding, modulation of hunger and satiety by learning and stress; learning and memory processes; sex and age differences.
Gregg Sparkman
Assistant Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Gregg Sparkman's research focuses on the psychology of social change, including research on interventions to address social problems related to the environment, health, and social inequity. He examines responses to and drivers of social change, motivations to change behavior, how…
Gregory Floyd
Assistant Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Bernard Lonergan
Critical Realism
Phenomenology and Hermeneutics
Philosophy of Religion
Gregory Fried
Professor; Convener of M.A. program in Philosophy, Law, and Policy · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Political philosophy
Ethics: history
Ethics: practical
Philosophy and Law
Ancient philosophy
Philosophy and race
Just war theory
20th century Continental
Gustavo Morello SJ
Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Religion, Global and Transnational sociology (Latin America), Political Sociology.
Guy Beiner
Professor, Sullivan Chair in Irish Studies · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Modern Europe; cultural and social history; the long nineteenth century; Irish studies; memory studies; oral history and folk traditions; pandemics
H. John McDargh
Associate Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Psychological study of religious development
The integration of spirituality and psychotherapy
Contemporary psychoanalytic theory and theological anthropology
Hanne Eisenfeld
Associate Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Mythology, Greek Poetry, Greek Religion, Wisdom Literature, Greece and the Ancient Near East.
Hannes Kerber
Assistant Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Modern Political Theory
Hanno Foerster
Assistant Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Labor Economics, Economics of the Family, Applied Microeconomics
Hanqin Tian
Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Global Change Ecology, Carbon and Nitrogen Cycles, GHG Accounting and Management, Terrestrial Biosphere Modeling, Nature-based Solutions, Sustainable Agri-Food Systems
Hartmut Austen
Associate Professor, Studio Art · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Hartmut Austen is an Associate Professor of Studio Art (Painting) at Boston College, where he is affiliated with the Art, Art History, and Film Department. His abstract paintings and drawings are rooted in the real but emphasize structure, tactility, and the visceral over represe…
Heather Cox Richardson
Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
American History, primarily politics and economics; nineteenth-century U.S.; history of the American West; history education; comics; maritime history; writing
Hideo Konishi
Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Applied Microeconomic Theory
Hilary Palevsky
Assistant Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Marine biogeochemistry, oceanography, climate science, carbon cycle
Holly Crocker
Hale Family Director of Women’s and Gender Studies; Professor of English · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Holly Crocker is the Hale Family Director of Women’s and Gender Studies and a Professor of English at Boston College. Her research focuses on late medieval and early modern literatures, with particular emphasis on ethics, humanism, politics, and feminism. She is also involved in …
Hope Bretscher
Assistant Professor of Physics · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Experimental condensed matter, correlated and low-energy physics, on-chip terahertz and ultrafast optoelectronics, sub-wavelength cavities, terahertz and electrical characterization and control of devices, 2D materials and heterostructures, quantum metamaterials
Howard Straubing
Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Theory of computation, particularly the connections among logic, automata and computational complexity. His current research projects involve algebraic and model-theoretic approaches to circuit complexity and to automata operating on unranked trees.
Hsin-Hao Su
Assistant Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
The intersection of theoretical computer science and distributed computing. Biologically-inspired algorithms and their connection with distributed computing.
Ian Biringer
Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Ilija Zeljkovic
Professor of Physics · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Experimental condensed matter physics; Scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy; Molecular beam epitaxy (MBE); Correlated electron systems; Topological materials; 2D materials.
Ilya Volkovich
Assistant Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Computational Complexity with Applications to Cryptography and Machine Learning.
In particular:
- Algebraic Complexity
- Randomness in Computation
- Computational Learning Theory
I am also interested in teaching Theory of Computation to undergraduate students
Iziah Topete
Assistant Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Philosophy of Race and Racism
Modern Philosophy
Africana Philosophy
Latin American Philosophy
Jacoby Adeshei Carter
Associate Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Philosophy of Race
Africana Philosophy
Alain Leroy Locke
Pragmatism
James E. Anderson
William B. Neenan, S.J. Millennium Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
International Economics, Economic History
James Keenan, S.J.
Vice Provost for Global Engagement; Canisius Professor; Director of The Jesuit Institute · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
university ethics, fundamental moral theology; history of theological ethics; Thomas Aquinas; virtue ethics; HIV/AIDS; Church leadership ethics
James Najarian
Associate Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Gender and sexuality in literature; poetic influence; and religion in literature.
James Smith
Professor of English & Irish Studies · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Irish literature and culture, especially contemporary narrative, and cultural studies.
James W. Morris
Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Islamic humanities (poetry and music), Islamic philosophy, Sufism, sainthood (walaya) and pilgrimage, the Qur’an, hadith, Shiite thought, and cinema in spiritual teaching.
James Weiss
Associate Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Contemporary Spirituality since 1900
Renaissance and Reformation Church History
Biography as a Literary Form
Spirituality of Work and Vocation
Jan Engelbrecht
Professor of Physics · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Theory of strongly correlated electron systems, including pairing correlations in high-temperature superconductors, Fermi Liquid vs. non-Fermi Liquid metals, local Fermi liquids and the metal-insulator transition.
Jane M. Flanagan
Professor · Connell School of Nursing
Social engagement and other healthy lifestyle interventions for caregivers and older adults with chronic health conditions
Jaromir Nosal
Associate Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
International Macroeconomics, Macroeconomics
Jason Geller
Director, Human Neuroscience Laboratory · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Jason Geller is a faculty member in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at Boston College, where he also serves as Director of the Human Neuroscience Laboratory. His research interests include language processing, learning and memory, and the philosophy of science, with…
Jason Welle
Assistant Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Christian-Muslim Relations
Islamic Mysticism
Medieval Studies
Franciscan Intellectual Tradition
Jean-Luc Solère
Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Medieval and Early Modern Metaphysics and Natural Philosophy
Medieval and Early Modern Cognition Theories
Scholasticism and its Influence on 17th Century Thought
Pierre Bayle
The Role of Pleasure in Ethics
Jeffery A. Byers
Professor of Chemistry · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Development of new transition metal based complexes for their use as catalysts for energy applications, new greener organic synthetic methodologies, and for the production of biodegradable polymers.
Jeffrey Bloechl
Albert J. Fitzgibbons Professor of Philosophy; Chair of the Department · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Philosophy of Religion
Philosophy and Christianity
Phenomenology
Jeffrey L. Cooley
Associate Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Hebrew Bible and its ancient Near Eastern context; the intellectual history of the ancient Near East
Jennifer Bill
Performance Faculty · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Dr. Jennifer Bill is a performance faculty member in the Music Department at Boston College's Morrissey College of Arts & Sciences. A saxophonist and conductor, she has performed across Asia, Europe, and the United States, and previously led the Providence College Symphonic Winds…
Jennifer L. Erickson
Associate Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
International security and arms control, conventional and nuclear weapons, sanctions and arms embargoes, the laws and norms of war, and global governance.
Jenny Baglivo
Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Jenny Baglivo is a professor of mathematics at Boston College, where she is also affiliated as a research professor following her retirement. Her research interests include statistics and computer-intensive statistical methods, with work on courses for mathematical sciences stude…
Jeremy D. Wilkins
Associate Professor; Director, Lonergan Institute · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Bernard Lonergan
Thomas Aquinas
method in theology
Trinitarian theology
Christology
grace
Jeremy Shakun
Associate Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Paleoclimate, Glaciers and Ice Sheets, Geochemistry
Jessica Finocchiaro
Assistant Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Jessica Finocchiaro is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Boston College, a position she has held since 2024. Her research interests lie in computer science, with published work in areas such as neural information processing systems and multiclass classification.
Jessica M. Black
Associate Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Educational Neuroscience, Neurodiversity, Innovation in Social Work Curricula, Dyslexia, Motivation, Positive Emotion, Spirituality, Neurotheology, Sleep, Mental Health, Translational Science, Educational Policy
Jessica Pauszek
Assistant Professor; Director, First-Year Writing Seminar · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
community literacy, working-class studies, archival methods, digital humanities
Jingyuan Qian
Assistant Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
East Asian Politics
Authoritarian Politics
Historical Political Economy
Formal Theory
Joanna Venator
Wieler Family Sesquicentennial Assistant Professor in Economics · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Joanna Venator is the Wieler Family Sesquicentennial Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Boston College. Her research focuses on domestic migration, as well as how gender and family structure interact with human capital formation and labor market outcomes.
John Baldwin
Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
John Christianson
Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
The focus of John Christianson's research is to determine how stress interacts with the neural systems that permit individuals to adapt to potentially dangerous and changing environments. The current emphasis is on the neural mechanisms that underly social decision-making. The la…
John Darr
Associate Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
New Testament, Luke-Acts, literary criticism, rhetoric, methodology, characters and characterization in New Testament narrative, parables, pneumatology, and Christology
John E. Ebel
Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Earthquake Seismology, Exploration Seismology, Theoretical Seismology, Earthquake Forecasting
John FitzGibbon
Part- Time Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Irish Politics
Populism
Euroscepticism
European Political Economy
John Lansdowne
Assistant Professor, Medieval Art · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Art and Architecture of the Middle Ages
Western Medieval | Byzantine | East Christian
European Renaissance | Ecumenical Union
Classical and Late Antique Archaeology
Maps | Spolia | Relics | Readymades
Mosaics | Conservation | Technical Art History
Rome | Florence | Istanbul | Jer…
John Makransky
Associate Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Emptiness, compassion, devotion and buddha nature in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism.
Buddhist meditation theory, practice, and adaptation in new cultures.
Buddhist bases for inter-religious learning.
John Michalczyk
Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Political Literature/Film/Arts:
Social Justice Documentaries
World War II/Germany/France
Conflict Resolution/Transformation
Holocaust and Genocide Studies
European Film/Literature
Latin American Political Film
Irish Political Film/"The Troubles"
John Yargo
Assistant Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
early modern literature, especially Shakespeare and Milton; the environmental humanities; and premodern critical race theory
Jonathan Bloom
Norma Jean Calderwood University Professor of Islamic and Asian Art · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Islamic art and architecture, the history of paper, art in the medieval Mediterranean world.
Jonathan Kirshner
Vincent Q. and Mary Ann Giffuni Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
International Relations, Political Economy, Politics and Film
Jonathan Laurence
Professor, Director of the Clough Center · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Constitutional democracy
Western European politics
North African politics
Turkish politics
Religion and politics
Jos Moons, S.J.
Assistant Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Ecclesiology
Pneumatology
Synodality
Second Vatican Council
Joseph Quinn
Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Microeconomics, Public Policy, Economics of Aging
Joseph Tecce
Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Psychophysiology of health, including body languages as indicators of emotions and stress and cognitive-behavioral methods to control stress.
Josh Seim
Associate Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Josh Seim is broadly interested in the sociologies of work, medicine, welfare, punishment, and more. He also frequently writes about pedagogy and ethnographic methods.
Joshua Byun
Assistant Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Grand Strategy, Alliance Politics, Nuclear Weapons, Preventive War, U.S. Foreign Policy
Joshua Greene
Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Joshua Greene is a Professor of Mathematics at Boston College, affiliated with the university's Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences. His research focuses on geometry and topology, with specific interests in knot theory, 4-manifolds, and symplectic geometry, as evidenced by his…
José Bento
Associate Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
José Bento's current research lies at the intersection of distributed algorithms and machine learning.
Jovonna Jones
Assistant Professor, English and African & African Diaspora Studies · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Jovonna Jones is an Assistant Professor of English and African & African Diaspora Studies at Boston College. Her research and teaching focus on 20th- and 21st-century African American cultural production, with specializations in visual studies and photography, Black feminist crit…
Julian Bourg
Associate Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Modern European intellectual and cultural history; modern French history; the 1960s; terror and political violence; French theory
Juliet Ryan-Davis
Assistant Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Field Geology, Magmatic Systems and Ore Formation, Volcanology, Geoethics
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