PhD Advisors at Boston University 波士顿大学
Research-focused faculty at Boston University, 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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Abigail Winston Batchelder
Associate Professor · School of Public Health
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Abraham (Avi) Seidmann
Professor, Information Systems · Questrom School of Business
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Adam Glick
graduate student · School of Social Work
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Alan L. Feld
Professor of Law · School of Law
Art Law, Corporate, Business & Transactional Law, Energy Law, Tax Law
Alejandro F. Botta
Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible · School of Theology
Elephantine papyri, Aramaic-Demotic Interrelationships, The Book of Chronicles, Latin-American Biblical Interpretation
Alessandra Anderson
Nutritionist, Sargent Choice Nutrition Center · Sargent College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences
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Alexa S. Beiser
Professor · School of Public Health
Alexa Beiser has been on the faculty at Boston University School of Public Health since 1985, engaged in teaching and collaborative public health research...
Alexander Jiménez
Conductor, Young Artists Orchestra, BU Tanglewood Institute · College of Fine Arts
Dr. Alexander Jiménez serves as Professor of Conducting, Director of Orchestral Activities, and String Area Coordinator at The Florida State University College of Music. Dr. Jiménez has recorded on the Naxos, Navona, Neos, Canadian Broadcasting Ovation, and Mark labels. Deeply co…
Alexis Peri
Assistant Professor of Black Studies · College of Arts & Sciences
Imperial Russia, the Soviet Union, Late Modern Europe
Alice Cronin-Golomb
· College of Arts & Sciences
Research interests: Medicine, Psychology, Cognition, Disease, Neuroscience. 2-year mean citedness: 2.8 h-index: 46
Alison Trainer
Assistant Professor of Music, Voice · College of Fine Arts
Internationally acclaimed coloratura soprano Alison Trainer is a gifted singing actress, who has garnered top prizes in major vocal competitions and performed with opera companies, symphony orchestras, and on recital stages across the United States and Europe. She continues to ga…
Allison Voth
Associate Professor, Music; Principal Coach, Opera Institute · College of Fine Arts
<strong>Allison Voth</strong> is an associate professor of music at Boston University’s School of Music, and principal coach at Boston University’s Opera Institute. She is a well-known diction coach in Boston and New York and widely concertized with Lucine Amara of the Metropolit…
Allison Yoshie Eldredge
Director, Cello Workshop, BUTI · College of Fine Arts
Allison, an international concert cellist, has been heralded as “a cellist afraid of nothing” by the Chicago Sun Times and was awarded the coveted Avery Fisher Career Grant and named “Young Artist of the Year” by Musical America.
Allyson Baughman
Senior Project Director, CISWH · School of Social Work
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Alya Guseva
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies · College of Arts & Sciences
economic sociology, money, finance, morality, market emergence, medical sociology, biomedical markets, human reproduction, human organs, tissues, gametes, clinical labor, healthcare, healthcare policy, gestational surrogacy
Alyssa Benalfew-Ramos
Online Course Facilitator · School of Social Work
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Amelia Demarco
Research Fellow, CADER · School of Social Work
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Amie Piekarz
Online Course Facilitator · School of Social Work
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Amira Aker
Assistant Professor · School of Public Health
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Amy R. Offenberg
Online Program Advisor · School of Social Work
Community Engagement, Mental Health & Substance Use, Social Policy & Research, Trauma & Violence
Ana Irazabal De Sanchez
Online Course Facilitator · School of Social Work
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Ana Villarreal
Associate Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
violence, emotions, urban dynamics, socio-spatial divides, Latin America, ethnography, social theory
Andrea Berlin
· College of Arts & Sciences
Research interests: Ancient history, Art, Archaeology, History. h-index: 17
Andrea Vedolin
Professor, Finance · Questrom School of Business
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Andreea Muţ
Cenk Cavusoglu | Biomedical Engineering | Case Western Reserve University · College of Fine Arts
Romanian pianist Dr. Andreea Muţ attended the Gheorghe Dima Academy of Music in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, before completing her Master of Music degree at Sam Houston State University, and her Doctorate in Collaborative Arts at University of Houston. Dr. Muţ has performed solo and cha…
Andrew C. Stokes
Associate Professor · School of Public Health
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Andrew Goodrich
Associate Professor of Music, Music Education; Director of Graduate Studies, School of Music · College of Fine Arts
peer mentoring in music education, diversity, access, equity, inclusion, LGBTQIA+ students, anti-racism, community music, jazz education
Andrew Robichaud
Director of Graduate Studies; Associate Professor of History · College of Arts & Sciences
American history, environmental history, urban history, animal history, and the history of Boston
Andrew Shenton
Professor, Musicology and Ethnomusicology; James R. Houghton Scholar of Sacred Music (School of Theology) · College of Fine Arts
Andrew Shenton is a musician, academic, prize-winning author, educator, consultant, cultural historian, and administrator based in Boston, Massachusetts. Born in England, his first professional music training was at The Royal College of Music in London, where he studied under a s…
Andrew W. Taylor, PhD, FARVO
PROFESSOR OF OPHTHALMOLOGY · Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Ocular System of Immune Regulation and Immune Suppression (OSIRIS)
My research program is focused on characterizing the molecular mechanisms of ocular immunosuppression and immunoregulation. The hypothesis of this research program is that ocular immune privilege suppresses immun…
André de Quadros
Professor of Music, Music Education · College of Fine Arts
<strong>André de Quadros</strong>, music educator, conductor, ethnomusicologist, writer, and human rights activist has conducted and undertaken research in over forty countries. His professional work has taken him to the most diverse settings, spanning professional ensembles, and…
Angela Onwuachi-Willig
Adj/PTVisiting Prof/PTLecturer · School of Law
Civil Rights, Critical Race Theory, Employment Law, Evidence Law, Family Law, Gender Matters, Race and Law, Torts
Angela Ursillo
Teaching Professional, Department of Occupational Therapy Online Program · Sargent College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences
Research interests: Colitis, Triazole. h-index: 1
Anita Carson
Larz Anderson Professor in Operations & Technology Management · Questrom School of Business
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Ann Aschengrau
Professor · School of Public Health
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Anna Mancuso
Online Course Facilitator · School of Social Work
Research interests: Medicine, Biology, Internal medicine, Cancer research, Genetics. 2-year mean citedness: 2.4 h-index: 29
Anthony Abraham Jack
Faculty Director, Newbury Center
Professor · Wheelock College of Education & Human Development
Educational Leadership & Policy Studies, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion, Higher Education Administration
Anuradha Vyavaharkar
Online Program Advisor · School of Social Work
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April Evans
Online Course Facilitator · School of Social Work
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Arianne J. Chernock
Associate Dean of the Faculty, Social Sciences; Professor of History · College of Arts & Sciences
Modern British history, gender, culture, politics, and the monarchy
Ashleigh Reade
Assistant Professor, Voice & Speech · College of Fine Arts
<strong>Ashleigh Reade</strong> is an interdisciplinary theater educator and performer, specializing in voice, speech, text, and accent work. Prior to joining the faculty at CFA School of Theatre, she was an Assistant Professor of Theater at the Boston Conservatory, where she tau…
Asim Z. Mian, MD
Associate Professor, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine · Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Alzheimer's, white matter diseases, and brain tumor imaging
Astraea Augsberger
Associate Professor & Associate Dean for Doctoral Education · School of Social Work
Child Welfare Policy and Programs, Youth and Family Engagement, Health Equity, Community Engaged Research
Barbara Bickart
Senior Associate Dean of Programs, Associate Professor, Marketing · Questrom School of Business
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Barbara L. Jones
Dean and Professor · School of Social Work
Oncology social work, Palliative care, Adolescent and young adult cancer survivors, Social work leadership
Barbara L. Niles, PhD
Associate Professor, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine · Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
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Bayla Keyes
Professor · College of Fine Arts
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Benjamin Fox
Miriam Novotny | Weatherhead School at Case Western Reserve University · College of Fine Arts
Oboist Benjamin Fox is in high demand as an orchestral player, chamber musician, and teacher in the Boston area. His versatility and virtuosity are showcased in a variety of venues. From Carnegie Hall to retirement homes, rural churches in Panamá to nightclubs in Honolulu, Ben’s …
Benjamin Joseph Nobile Kampler
Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Sociology · College of Arts & Sciences
Benjamin Kampler is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Sociology at Kalamazoo College. holds a BA in English from Brandeis University and an interdisciplinary MA from NYU and an MA in sociology from CUNY's Queens College. Ben's experiences working full time at the histori…
Benjamin Marx
· College of Arts & Sciences
Research interests: Economics, Business, Political science. 2-year mean citedness: 2.5 h-index: 14
Benjamin Siegel
Associate Professor of History · College of Arts & Sciences
History of economic life and development, modern South Asia, environmental history, agricultural history, history of medicine and the body
Benjamin Sovacool
Ewing Lamont Research Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
Dr. Benjamin Sovacool was appointed as director of BU's Institute for Sustainable Energy (now the Institute for Global Sustainability). Dr. Sovacool, a leading scholar on global energy and climate policy, also joined Arts & Sciences as a professor in the Department of Earth & Env…
Beth-Ann Sheff Ross
Charles River Campus Advisor · School of Social Work
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Bethlyn Vergo Houlihan, MSW, MPH
Senior Project Director, CISWH · School of Social Work
project management, knowledge translation, consumer and community partnership, and addressing gaps in care through empowering people with complex disabilities, especially underrepresented and vulnerable groups. Her interests include developing and testing community interventions …
Betty S. Anderson
Professor of History · College of Arts & Sciences
History of the Middle East, social and intellectual history of the Arab world, history of education, and modern world history
Boaz Sharon
Professor, Piano · College of Fine Arts
<span><strong>Boaz Sharon</strong>, Professor of Piano at Boston University, is an internationally known pianist, recording artist and judge at international piano competitions.</span>
Bradley Craig
Assistant Professor of History · College of Arts & Sciences
early African American and Black Atlantic politics and culture, diasporic belonging, sovereignty and belonging in the revolutionary Atlantic world, sensory history of race and slavery
Breehan James
Associate Professor of Art, Painting · College of Fine Arts
<strong>Breehan James</strong>'s paintings portray her experiences exploring the wild places of the North and the people connected to them. Rugged boreal forests, beautiful night skies reflected in lakes, deer hunters, and cottages in the woods populate her paintings and evoke a …
Brendan J. McConville
Professor of History · College of Arts & Sciences
Early American history
Brianna Tafolla Rivière
Assistant Professor of History · College of Arts & Sciences
Indigenous history, Twentieth-Century North American Indigenous history, Indigenous activism, visual sovereignty, film industry, Indigenous futurism, spectacle, urban studies, Red Power movement, Chicano movement, Indigenous Studies, Chicanx Studies, civil rights, radical social …
Brita Heimarck
Associate Professor of Music · College of Fine Arts
Ethnomusicology, world music, Music and Mysticism, Music and Ritual, Sacred Music East and West, shadow play music of Bali, Indonesia, South Asian devotional music, modernization, music and politics, theorizations of the sacred in music
Brooke Durham
Assistant Professor of History · College of Arts & Sciences
Brooke Durham is a historian of France and the French Empire. Her research approaches the end of the French Empire through local, interpersonal interactions in France and Africa after 1945. Dr. Durham examines how students, social workers, teachers, and international volunteers n…
Brooke L. Blower
History Department Chair; Professor of History · College of Arts & Sciences
Modern United States history, transnational history, urban history
Bruce J. Schulman
William E. Huntington Professor of History · College of Arts & Sciences
20th-century U.S. history
Byron C. Hepburn
Professor of Family and Community Medicine · Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Dr. Byron C. Hepburn, Maj Gen, USAF Ret, is Associate Vice President and the inaugural Director of the Military Health Institute at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. In this role, he strengthens the University’s DoD and VA collaborations with the goal …
Cara E. Stepp, PhD
Program Director, PhD in SLHS | Professor · Sargent College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences
Speech Motor Control, Speech Science, Voice Disorders, Rehabilitation Engineering, Speech Acoustics
Carmela J. DeCandia
Online Course Facilitator · School of Social Work
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Caroline Pliszka
Instrumental Core Faculty, BU Tanglewood Institute · College of Fine Arts
<strong>Caroline Pliszka</strong>, violin, has been a regular substitute player with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Boston Pops Orchestra since 2002. Ms. Pliszka has been a member of the Boston University Tanglewood Institute violin faculty since 2010. Ms. Pliszka holds a Mast…
Caroline Smith
Online Course Facilitator · School of Social Work
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Carolyn Hodges-Simeon
Associate Professor of the Practice of Social Science · College of Arts & Sciences
Research interests: Biology, Psychology, Social psychology, Developmental psychology. 2-year mean citedness: 2.2 h-index: 17
Cassandra Luna
Online Course Facilitator · School of Social Work
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Catherine Klapperich
Professor · College of Engineering
Professor Catherine Klapperich (BME, MSE) has devised a new, easy-to-use method called SNAPflex (System for Nucleic Acid Prep – Flexible) that prepares samples for NAAT without refrigeration and at much lower cost. The promise of the technology has been recognized by The Bill & M…
Cati Connell
Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies · College of Arts & Sciences
Professor Cati Connell is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Boston University and former Director of the BU Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program. Her first book, School’s Out: Gay and Lesbian Teachers in the Classroom, was published in 2015 by University of Califor…
Celeste Curington
Associate Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
African Diaspora in the United States and Europe and other communities of color; intersectional oppression and inequalities around race, gender, class and citizenship; workplace, neighborhoods and public space, and the dating market; digital-sexual racism; care work; reproductive…
Celia Llácer
Conductor, BU Tanglewood Institute Young Artists Orchestra, 2023 · College of Fine Arts
Celia Llácer started studying Orchestral Conducting with maestro Borja and next year she will be studying Master's conducting at the Zurich University of the Arts with Professor Johannes Schlaefli and Professor Christoph-Mathias Mueller. Throughout her career, she has received ma…
Chad Williams
Tomorrow Foundation Chair of American History and Professor of History and African American and Black Diaspora Studies · College of Arts & Sciences
African American and modern United States History and African American and African diasporic intellectual history
Chamin Ajjan
Online Course Facilitator · School of Social Work
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Charles Chu
Assistant Professor, Management & Organizations · Questrom School of Business
Charles Chu's research examines the psychological processes that maintain systems of inequality in organizations and society. His work focuses on spotlighting the intuitive and often unnoticed strategies people use to cloak the ways in which they contribute to maintaining inequal…
Charles Dellheim
Professor of History · College of Arts & Sciences
Modern European cultural history, Jewish culture, modern Britain, business and culture
Charlotte Hannon
Online Course Facilitator · School of Social Work
Research interests: Medicine, Health care. h-index: 1
Chelsea Cobb, LMHC
Assistant Director, College Mental Health Initiatives · Sargent College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences
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Chelsea White
Online Course Facilitator · School of Social Work
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Chen Yang
· College of Arts & Sciences
Research interests: Medicine, Biology, Internal medicine, Cancer research, Cancer. 2-year mean citedness: 4.1 h-index: 118
Chepchirchir Tirop
Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
African history, social and cultural histories of East Africa, Indian diaspora in Kenya, memory, identity, nation-building, political role of athletics in Kenya, decolonization, Cold War diplomacy, sports history
Chris Barucci
Senior Physical Therapist, Boston University Physical Therapy Center · Sargent College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences
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Chris R. Schlauch
Associate Professor, Counseling Psychology & Religion, Psychology of Religion · School of Theology
<p>Professor Chris Schlauch accepted the position of Assistant Director for Professional Services at the Danielsen Institute at Boston University, and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pastoral Psychology & Psychology of Religion in the School of Theology and in the Graduate Sch…
Christa Black
Learning Facilitator, Online MPH · School of Public Health
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Christina Brinkmann
Assistant Professor, Finance · Questrom School of Business
I am an Assistant Professor of Finance at Boston University's Questrom School of Business. I am interested in Labor and Finance, and topics in Corporate Finance, Financial Markets, and Labor Economics more broadly. In 2025, I graduated with a Ph.D. in Economics from the Universit…
Christina Lee
Professor, Faculty Director of Health Equity Research Lab at CISWH · School of Social Work
• Health inequities
• Social and structural determinants of risky health behaviors
• Addiction research and treatment
• Mechanisms of behavior change in addictions treatment
• Optimizing behavioral treatments for use in the community
• Interdisciplinary interventions and communit…
Christine Hamel
Associate Professor of Voice and Acting · College of Fine Arts
Voice, listening, and breath as ethical acts; psychophysical methods, mindfulness, and activism in teaching and practice; voice as a lived, sonorous and embodied experience marked by social structures including systemic forms of injustice such as ableism, sexism, racism, and clas…
Christine Hunter, MD
· Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Dr. Christine Hunter joined the U.S. Office of Personnel Management as Chief Medical Officer in December 2011, bringing over 30 years of experience in federal health care. In this role, Dr. Hunter serves as Medical Director for the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program and Mu…
Christopher Boyd Brown
Associate Professor of Church History · School of Theology
Dr. Christopher Boyd Brown is Associate Professor of Church History at Boston University School of Theology, where he has taught since 2003. He serves as General Editor of the American Edition of Luther’s Works, volumes 56-75 (2009-).
Christopher Chen, MD, PhD
Professor (BME, MSE) · College of Engineering
Vascular, Cardiac, and Stem Cell Biology and Engineering; Mechanobiology; Micro- and Nanotechnology; Biomaterials; Cell Adhesion and Extracellular Matrix
Christopher Edwards
Assistant Professor of Acting · College of Fine Arts
<strong>Christopher Edwards</strong> has worked as a freelance director, actor, fight choreographer, and educator for the past twenty-five years and is currently the Artistic Director of the award-winning Actors’ Shakespeare Project in Boston. With an eye towards heightened text …
Christopher Moore
Professor of Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences · Sargent College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences
Physiologic foundations of speech production, very early motor development of speech, disorders of speech motor control, customized quantitative methods for measurement and description of speech-related phenomena, orofacial motor control, respiratory physiology, speech acoustics,…
Christopher Schmitt
Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences · College of Arts & Sciences
Christopher A. Schmitt, an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Biology.
Christopher Sleboda
Associate Professor of Art, Graphic Design; Chair, BFA Graphic Design · College of Fine Arts
<strong>Christopher Sleboda</strong> is a designer, illustrator, curator, and educator. From 2005 to 2020, he served as the Director of Graphic Design at the Yale University Art Gallery. Overseeing graphic design and wayfinding for the museum—from exhibition identities, motion gr…