The Office of the Provost Announces Promotions to Full Professor on the Charles River Campus
Great faculty make great universities, translating important ideas and research discoveries into practical solutions that improve our quality of life, producing new scholarship that advances our understanding of the world around us, and helping shape the future workforce through their teaching and example.
President Kenneth W. Freeman and University Provost Kenneth Lutchen are delighted to announce the promotion of 22 Charles River Campus faculty to the rank of full professor at Boston University. The new cohort of full professors includes social scientists:. Congratulations to all of the scholars, including:
David Glick, CAS, Political Science, studies American politics and researches the US Supreme Court, local government, and public policy. A fellow with the federal government’s Office of Evaluation Sciences, he is co-PI on the Menino Survey of Mayors and has co-authored a book, Neighborhood Defenders: Participatory Politics and America’s Housing Crisis (2019) and other works chronicling the local politics of housing. He has additionally published 26 peer reviewed articles in journals including Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, American Journal of Political Science, and Perspectives on Politics.
Deeana Klepper, CAS, Religion, is a historian of religion in medieval Europe whose research focuses on religious identities, cultures, and inter-religious encounters among Christians, Jews, and Muslims. She has authored two books, including 2022’s Pastoral Care and Community in Late Medieval Germany: Albert of Diessen’s “Mirror of Priests,” along with 12 book chapters and articles in major journals. A frequent presenter at national and international conferences on medieval studies, Jewish studies, and history, she was elected this year to the Society of Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America, an honor that recognizes long-term scholarly achievement within the field.
David Lagakos, CAS, Economics, is a macroeconomist who studies the determinants of economic growth in some of the world’s least developed regions. A past lead academic for the International Growth Centre in Ghana, he has served as editor of the Review of Economic Dynamics and the Journal of Development Economics and is currently a research affiliate at NBER and the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). His papers have appeared in the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and other prominent journals.
Natalia Ramondo, CAS, Economics, is an international trade economist whose research examines the global impact of multinational corporations’ activities. Her most recent studies explore the correlation between those firms’ activities and carbon emissions worldwide. Her work has been supported by two NSF grants and published in top-tier economic journals, such as the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, and the Review of Economic Studies. She is a research associate at NBER, a research fellow at CEPR, and an associate editor for the Journal of Monetary Economics, the American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, and the Journal of International Economics.
The individuals recognized today have emerged as leaders in their respective fields of research and in their classrooms. At a time of transition and challenge in the world, they are meeting the moment by pursuing highly relevant new areas of inquiry, employing innovative new approaches, and entering boundary-pushing collaborations across dozens of disciplines. In doing so, they exemplify each day the depth and excellence of Boston University’s talented academic community.