A sampling of the 22 tenured and tenure-track faculty who joined Boston College for the 2016–17 academic year.

Hanne Eisenfeld
Position: Assistant professor of classical studies, Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Ph.D.: Ohio State University
Interests: Archaic and classical Greek poetry; Greek religion and myth
Representative publication: “Ishtar Rejected: Reading a Mesopotamian Goddess in the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite,” Archiv für Religionsgeschichte, 2015

Photograph by Lee Pellegrini

M. Bumin Yenmez
Position: Associate professor of economics, Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Ph.D.: Stanford University
Interests: Matching theory, auction theory, mechanism design, and choice theory
Representative publication: “Ranking by Manipulability” (with Peter Chen, Michael Egesdal, and Marek Pycia), American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2016

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Wan Sonya Tang
Position: Assistant professor of Romance languages and literatures, Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Ph.D.: Yale University
Interests: Modern Spanish literature and visual culture, realism and the fantastic, women in the Spanish Civil War
Representative publication: “Sacred, Sublime, and Supernatural: Religion and the Spanish Capital in Nineteenth-Century Fantastic Narratives,” in The Sacred and Modernity in Spain: Beyond the Secular City (edited by A. Córdoba and Daniel García Donoso), 2016

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Fazel Fallah Tafti
Position: Assistant professor of physics, Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Ph.D.: University of Toronto
Interests: Superconductors, exotic magnets, more efficient thermoelectric and energy related materials
Representative publication: “Temperature-field Phase Diagram of Extreme Magnetoresistance” (with Q. D. Gibson, S. K. Kushwaha, N. Haldolaarachchige, R. J. Cava), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2016

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Timothy Mangin
Position: Assistant professor of music, Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Ph.D.: Columbia University
Interests: Ethnomusicology, the intersection of popular music, race, ethnicity, religion, and cosmopolitanism in West Africa and the African Diaspora
Representative publication: “Cosmopolitan Routes: Jazz in Senegal,” in Begegnungen: The World Meets Jazz (edited by Wolfram Knauer), 2008

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Sokiente Dagogo-Jack
Position: Assistant professor of marketing, Carroll School of Management
Ph.D.: University of Washington
Interests: Nonconscious effects of brand identity elements
Representative publication: “Activating Stereotypes with Brand Imagery: The Role of Viewer Political Identity” (with Justin Angle, Mark Forehand, and Andrew Perkins), Journal of Consumer Psychology, 2016

Photograph by Tony Rinaldo

Yehua Wei
Position: Assistant professor of operations, Carroll School of Management
Ph.D.: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Interests: Flexible manufacturing, service networks, risk mitigation
Representative publication: “Analyzing Process Flexibility: A Distribution-Free Approach with Partial Expectations” (with H. Bidkhori and D. Simchi-Levi), Operations Research Letters, 2016

Photograph by Gary Wayne Gilbert

Nadia N. Abuelezam
Position: Assistant professor of nursing, Connell School of Nursing
Ph.D.: Harvard University
Interests: Epidemiology, infectious diseases, social networks
Representative publication: “Can the HIV Epidemic Be Eliminated in South Africa Using Combination Prevention? A Modelling Analysis” (with A.W. McCormick, et al.), American Journal of Epidemiology, 2016

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Deoksoon Kim
Position: Assistant professor of teacher education/special education, curriculum, and instruction, Lynch School of Education
Ph.D.: University of New Mexico
Interests: Second language and bilingual processes, integrating instructional technology in teacher education
Representative publication: “One Wiki, Two Groups: Dynamic Patterns of Interaction in ESL Collaborative Writing” (with M. Li), Journal of Second Language Writing, 2016

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Cheryl S. Bratt
Position: Assistant professor of legal reasoning, research, and writing, Law School
Ph.D.: University of Michigan
Interests: Family law and education law
Representative publication: “Doing Like the Locals Do: Using the Legal Writing Classroom to Teach Local-Rule Practice,” Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research and Writing, 2014

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Ryan Williams
Position: Assistant professor of law, Law School
Ph.D.: Columbia University
Interests: Original meanings of the Fifth, Ninth, and Fourteen Amendments, intersection of constitutional rules and civil litigation process
Representative publication: “Due Process, Class Action Opt Outs, and the Right Not to Sue,” Columbia Law Review, 2015

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Peter Dawson ’17 and his mother, Adriene, from Stamford, Connecticut, in the queue along Commonwealth Avenue, the principal staging point for moving into the building, on August 26.

Catherine Malcynsky ’17 (left) and her parents Jay and Joni, from Chester, Connecticut. The Residence Hall Association provided the red moving carts (for 30-minute intervals).

The Commonwealth Avenue entrance. Construction of the five-story, brick- and stone-clad building began in May 2014. Its completion coincided with the demolition on Lower Campus of Edmond’s Hall, a 790-bed residence dating to 1975. A new recreation complex is planned for the Edmond’s site.

Pawtucket, Rhode Island, native Emily Correia ’17 (foreground) and her sister Stephanie looked on as their father, Americo, retrieved items from the recesses of his truck.

Brittney Bentivegna ’17 (right) and her mother, Wendy, of Southport, Connecticut. The residence hall sits just across the town line from Newton, in the Brighton neighborhood of Boston. Members of the Boston Police Department were assigned to keep traffic flowing.

After a 17-hour drive from Chicago, Andrew Kelley ’17 and his father, Steve, made the final push to a waiting four-man apartment.

Fresh arrivals checked in with undergraduate resident assistants in the main lobby. The Commonwealth Avenue entrance can be seen just beyond the array of sofas and armchairs at right. St. Thomas More Drive and a courtyard facing Lower Campus are to the left.

Resident assistants signed in Christine Rotondo ’17, who was joined by Isabella Rosales ’17 (in Celtics jersey).

The Commonwealth Avenue entrance and adjacent seating areas, as seen from a second-floor lounge. High ceilings and glass walls in many of the public spaces give the building an airy feel.

As second-year law student Cusaj Thomas ’15, one of 10 resident assistants, looked on, James Hunker ’17 (left) and Alex Joyce ’17 lugged an extra sofa for their fourth-floor, four-person apartment. The common room in every apartment comes furnished with a sofa, two armchairs, a coffee table, and a dining table and chairs.

Victoria Mulkern ’18 and her mother, Diane, of Milton, Massachusetts, passed the Athletics Department’s Pom Squad practicing in a first-floor seminar room. The building also contains a 1,373-square-foot meeting room with catering and AV facilities.

Bridget Nolan ’17, of Winchester, Massachusetts, moved into her fourth-floor apartment with the help of her parents, Brendan Nolan ’85 and Susan Santonelli. The view out the window extends over the central courtyard toward Lower Campus.

Dominic Hardaway ’19, from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, unpacked in his four-person apartment. In addition to the desk provided to each student, there are two or more study rooms with floor-to-ceiling windows on every level.

Elsie Guevara ’17 (red shirt) in her six-person apartment, assisted by her cousin Natalie. All apartments have a full kitchen.

A first-floor corridor in the building’s north wing. The central courtyard is visible in the background.

The lobby as seen from the Commonwealth Avenue doorway, with a second-floor lounge visible above. This shot was taken just before 4:00 p.m., when most residents had arrived and were settling into their new rooms.

The central courtyard and north wing of the building (left), photographed from St. Thomas More Drive.

Linden Lane, 7:45 a.m.: Students in the Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences begin to assemble. Coffee and a light breakfast was offered before the procession began at 8:45.

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Biochemistry major Chuda Rijal ’16 with, from left, his brother, Yadap, mother, Devi, and father, Dilli. Born in a refugee camp in Nepal, the Bhutanese Rijal became a U.S. citizen during his freshman year, at a naturalization ceremony in Robsham Theater.

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Communication major Julia Covino ’16 (left) and Lynch School of Education student Jace Eddy ’16, one of many with a personalized mortarboard.

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Philosophy major Ellen Hedstrom ’16, with parents Tom ’77 and Jennifer.

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Students gathered on Linden Lane before assembling by school and processing by several routes to Alumni Stadium. In all, 2,175 undergraduate and 1,330 graduate degrees were conferred.

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From left, John Fish, chair of the Board of Trustees; Ernest Moniz ’66, U.S. Secretary of Energy and the day’s Commencement speaker; and University President William P. Leahy, SJ, walk toward the platform in Alumni Stadium.

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Some 20,000 family and friends attended. The temperature was 68 degrees as the ceremony began at 10:00 under a clear blue sky.

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Moniz called on the Class of 2016 to reverse the trends of climate change and “lowest common denominator social and political discourse.” “Every skill set that you have acquired,” he said, “must be brought to bear to address these issues.”

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Fr. Leahy and Fish award Marissa Marandola ’16 her degree as the representative of the Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences Class of 2016. A 2015 Truman Scholar and editor of the undergraduate research journal Elements, the political science major also received the 2016 Edward J. Finnegan, SJ, Award, the University’s highest undergraduate honor. Marandola will attend Harvard Law School in the fall.

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Accounting major Jose Alvarez ’16 and fellow graduates of the Carroll School of Management.

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Graduates of the Lynch School of Education celebrate as their class’s representative, Patricia Garibaldi ’16, receives her degree.

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The ceremony concluded with “Hail! Alma Mater!” and “For Boston,” performed by the University Wind Ensemble and Chorale and accompanied by graduates’ and visitors’ voices. Then came a sing-along to Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline,” which played over the public address system.

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Between the full University Commencement and the individual schools’ diploma ceremonies, families met up beneath the statue of Doug Flutie ’85 on the plaza outside Alumni Stadium.

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Kadiatu Tejan ’16 with her family and friends on O’Neill Plaza after the Connell School of Nursing’s diploma ceremony.

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Connell School of Nursing graduate Alicia Vautour ’16 became the fifth child of Fred (right), a night-shift custodian at Robsham Theater, and Debbie Vautour to earn a degree from Boston College. Behind them, from left, are Alicia’s sister-in-law Lily Vautour, nephew Adam, and brothers Michael ’09 and John ’04.

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Big Data Symposium
March 16
Newton and Brighton Rooms, Corcoran Commons

Computer science major Ning Lu ’16 showed the outcomes of hypothetical computerized stock trades that relied on an algorithm he designed to yield improved results with repeated use (so-called machine learning). At left is Ginger Saariaho, executive director of school development for the Office of University Advancement.

Computer science major Ayako Mikami ’16 shared a piece of music produced with an algorithm she adapted. The algorithm enabled her computer to “learn” the patterns of some 2,500 traditional Chinese compositions.

Kaitlin Chaung ’17, a biology major who employed machine learning techniques to tag elements within cells using color or other visual cues, spoke with, from left, Rita Klapes ’86 (mother of another student researcher in the room, classical studies major Peter Klapes ’19) and Jill Edgar, licensing associate in the University’s Office of Technology Transfer and Licensing.

Peter Salvitti, chief technologist of information technology services at Boston College, tried out a virtual reality headset at a presentation by computer science majors Cameron Lunt ’17 (blue shirt) and Ryan Reede ’16 (not pictured). Beyond the poster, associate professor of the practice of English Joseph Nugent (left) talked with Neal H. Patel, head of human/social dynamics at Google Inc. Patel took part in an afternoon panel on the ethical implications of big data. Nugent spoke in the morning on how the resources of big data have changed literature studies.

Information systems and finance major Yuqi Wang ’16 (left) and physics major Ziyin Liu ’18 (right) described their collaborative research on stock prices and the influence of factors such as social media postings and New York City weather to Peter Salvitti, chief technologist of information technology services, and associate University librarian Kimberly Kowal.

Senior Thesis Poster Session
April 8
Reading Room, O’Neill Library

Political science major Marissa Marandola ’16 (right) wrote her thesis on “The Dollar Debates: Comparing the Implications of Judicial versus Political Intervention for School Finance Reform.” At left is fellow senior Brittany Keroack.

Political science major Michael Crupi ’16 described his study, “An Inquiry into the Intellectual Foundations of Modern American Conservatism,” to assistant professor of political science Lindsey O’Rourke.

Doyle Calhoun ’16, a linguistics major, talked with University Libraries staff members—from left, Carli Spina, Barbara Adams Hebard, Benjamin Florin, Christine Mayo, and Anna Kijas—about his work on “Language, Mission, and Africa: Digitizing and Contextualizing French Missionary Analyses of African Languages, c. 1850–1920.”

Philosophy major Eleni Callas ’16, whose thesis is titled “How Free Am I? Where Neuroscientific Experiments Can Lead,” talked with assistant professor of philosophy Richard Atkins.

Ejona Bakalli ’16 described her Islamic civilization and societies thesis—“The Ottoman Imperial Harem”—to fellow seniors (from left) Beylul Negassi, Chethanna Raphael, Yolanda Bustillo, and Olivia Guyon.

Philosophy major Walter Yu ’16 and theology professor M. Shawn Copeland discussed Yu’s work on “The Phenomenology of Empathy.”

International studies major Tate Krasner ’16 (center), with economics professor Joseph Quinn and Akua Sarr, vice provost for academic affairs. Krasner’s thesis was titled “Identity (in) Crisis: Examining Interorganizational Cooperation within the Peacekeeping Regime Complex.”

International studies major Garrett Lau ’16 researched “Roma Education in Post-Communist Eastern Europe: Pathways for Intervention to Reduce Levels of Social Exclusion.” At right is Lindsay Schrier ’18.

Richard Balagtas ’16, a philosophy major whose subject was “The Human Marketplace: The Ethical and Medical Challenges of Illicit Organ Trafficking,” talked with, from left, Allicen Dichiara ’16, Lauren Lin ’18, and Kejs Aliko ’18.

Alexander Hawley ’16 wrote about “The Muslim Brotherhood’s Gamble with the Arab Spring: The Re-Radicalization of Islamist Parties in Democratizing Governments” for his international studies thesis. At right is J. J. Mao ’16.

The McMullen Museum will be located on land previously owned by the Boston archdiocese, in the former Cardinal’s residence, a 23,000-square-foot Roman Renaissance Revival structure built in 1927. Beginning in 2014, the architecture firm DiMella Shaffer Associates reconfigured the existing space and designed a three-story, 7,000-square-foot glass addition. The addition’s third story is obscured by a rooftop terrace in this image of the front, which faces away from Commonwealth Avenue toward the campus.

The exhibition space, situated on the second and third floors of the original building, will be nearly double that of the museum’s current Devlin Hall location. The first floor will serve as a conference center, reached via the doorway at right. The triptych will be inserted in the wall at center.

The crew from Artex rolls in the first of the roughly one-inch-thick panels, boxed and bundled in blankets and shrink wrap to prevent buckling. The triptych was a gift of William Vareika ’74, P’09, ’15, and his wife, Alison, P’09, ’15.

Through the atrium’s glass can be seen a portion of the University’s 43-acre Brighton property.

Assistant museum director Diana Larsen (background, at right) looks on as the crew prepares to remove the first 99 x 31-inch La Farge panel from its box.

The triptych, which La Farge created for Roxbury’s All Saints Unitarian Church, features a preaching Christ (center), St. John the Evangelist (alongside), and St. Paul (under wraps). The nuggets of glass—more than a hundred embedded in each window—are called cabochons. The artist called them his “broken jewels.”

The view from the second-floor balcony. The three panels underwent 15 months of restoration in 2013–15.

Readying the frame for the first panel. The white verticle bars contain LED lights that will illuminate the windows from behind.

View from outside, with the main entrance at right.

The crew will position the St. John panel using a lift truck. The saint’s face, hands, and feet are oil paintings on glass. The clothing and background are opalescent glass, a mixture of opaque and translucent glass with a milky, striated effect that La Farge pioneered.

The back lights will illuminate the triptych 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, once the museum opens.

The crew assembles the frame for the middle panel.

The installation was completed in just under four hours.

The museum, which will remain free to all visitors, will open in September with Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts from Boston Area Collections, an exhibition that will have concurrent venues at Harvard’s Houghton Library and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.

Ram Arivudainambi ’16 (foreground), at the start of a late November practice in the Brighton Dance Studio. Masti has nine members in all.

Rehearsing “Get Low” (a 2014 electronica song with a North African folk melody). Front row, from left: Pavel Gorelov ’16 and Arivudainambi. Back row: Ashruti Patel ’17, Geeta Shanbhag ’18, and Soumya Parashar ’19.

Practicing “partner snaps,” a set of moves created by the group, to “Marjaani,” a song from the 2009 Bollywood film Billu. From left: Patel (obscured), Aash Shrivastav ’16, Arivudainambi, Parashar, Gorelov, and Maddy Chin ’16.

Rehearsing “India Waale” from the 2014 Bollywood action film Happy New Year in the larger, main room of the Brighton Dance Studio. From left: Parashar, Arivudainambi. Craparotta, and Shrivastav. Membership in Masti is open to any undergraduate with a “willingness to have fun,” according to a captain.

Shrivastav (arms outstretched), one of four captains, critiques a run-through.

Rehearsing “Mashallah,” from the 2012 Hindi-English romantic thriller Ek Tha Tiger (“And There Was a Tiger”). From left: Shanbhag (also a captain), Shrivastav, Craparotta, and Ari Ratnaseelan ’16 (another captain).

Most practices end with “circle time,” in which dancers share their highs and lows since the group last met. Clockwise from left: Arivudainambi, Craparotta, Shrivastav, Patel, Shanbhag, Ratnaseelan, and Parashar.

In the Robsham Theater green room on December 2, before the dress rehearsal for a showcase of 11 Boston College dance troupes, organized by the University’s Arts Council.

Foreground, from left: Parashar, Shrivastav, and Arivudainambi. The women wear kamarband belts that will jingle when they dance.

Parashar (left) and Patel en route to the Robsham main stage for rehearsal.

The group confers with Robsham technicians Margaux Villeneuve ’18 (left) and Maggie Snell ’16 about lighting.

Performing thumkas (hip-checks) to “Worth It,” by the American girl group Fifth Harmony.

Rehearsing “Mashallah.” From left: Craparotta, Arivudainambi, and Ratnaseelan. Arivudainambi’s shirt, made of silk, is called a sherwani.

Patel, another captain, adjusts the dancers’ spacing on the Robsham main stage.

Between run-throughs, Shrivastav (left) proposes a choreography change.

Rehearsing “Wiggle Bhangra Remix” in Robsham. From left: Craparotta, Shanbhag, Ratnaseelan, Parashar, and Arivudainambi.

Shanbhag out front during “Wiggle Bhangra Remix.”

Arivudainambi at the center of the final formation of “India Waale.”

Shrivastav rests after a second run-through in Robsham.

Late January downtime in Corcoran Commons. Clockwise from left: Chin, Arivudainambi, Shrivastav, Ratnaseelan, and Gorelov.

Clockwise from lower left: Ratnaseelan, Gorelov, Chin, Arivudainambi, and Shrivastav.

On Friday morning of Parents’ Weekend (September 25–27), director of University photography Gary Wayne Gilbert and his team invited families to pose for a picture outside Devlin Hall.

Some 2,027 families registered for Parents’ Weekend—60 percent came to visit a freshman. Three families traveled from China, 167 from California, 374 from within Massachusetts. Freshman Emily Uus was visited by the largest contingent of kin, 14 family members.

Watch a video of the making of this slideshow.

Amanda Brown ’16, with her parents, Lynn and Chris.

Major: Economics and finance

Hometown: Paget, Bermuda

Alison Jess ’18, with her parents, Steve and Stacey.

Major: Biochemistry

Hometown: San Diego, California

Victoria Brown ’19, with her mother, Rose ’86.

Major: Nursing

Hometown: Ipswich, Massachusetts

Andrew Mayleben ’19, with his parents, Dan and Elizabeth.

Major: Finance

Hometown: Minneapolis, Minnesota

Angela Arzu ’19, with her parents, Avery and Linda.

Major: Communication

Hometown: Wappingers Falls, New York

Gabby Perlewitz ’17 (right), with her parents, Thomas and Peggy, and sister Hannah.

Major: Biology and philosophy

Hometown: Mequon, Wisconsin

Jiahe Li ’19, with her father, Jinsong Li, and mother, Hong Xu.

Major: Art history

Hometown: Shanghai, China

Sageene Francis ’19, with her parents, Sandra and Georges.

Major: Undeclared

Hometown: Miami, Florida

Jack Lonergan ’19 (second from left), with his parents, John and Ita, and dormmate Nick McElroy ’19.

Major: Economics

Hometown: Los Gatos, California

Sydney Sarantos ’17 (second from left), with her parents, Peter and Kathy, and sister, Christina.

Major: Biology

Hometown: Gainesville, Florida

Kate Carsky ’16, with her parents, Madeline and Joe, and golden retriever Lucy.

Major: Biology

Hometown: Yonkers, New York

Katie Oksen ’19 (second from left), with her parents, Chris and Mary, sister Emily, and grandmother Frances Frederic.

Major: Undeclared

Hometown: Toms River, New Jersey

Alyssa Rogowski ’17, with her parents, Putul and Michael.

Major: International studies

Hometown: Williamsburg, Virginia

Will Dwyer IV ’19, with his parents, Bill III ’80, P’15, and Christine ’82, P’15.

Major: Undeclared

Hometown: Boxford, Massachusetts

M ore of the 44 tenured and tenure-track faculty who joined Boston College for the 2015–16 academic year.

View last month’s freshman faculty slideshow, part 1.

Photographs by Lee Pellegrini

Nicole Eaton
Assistant professor of history, Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Ph.D.: University of California, Berkeley
Interests: Modern European social and cultural history; the Second World War and the Eastern Front
Representative publication: “Soviet Citizens Under German Occupation, 1941–1944,” Dissertation Reviews, 2015

Ilija Zeljkovic
Assistant professor of physics, Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Ph.D.: Harvard University
Interests: Atomic-scale spectroscopic characterization of quantum materials; layer-by-layer material synthesis utilizing molecular beam epitaxy; manipulation of electronic properties via strain, electrostatic gating, and magnetic field
Representative publication: “Strain Engineering Dirac Surface States in Heteroepitaxial Topological Crystalline Insulator Thin Films” (with Daniel Walkup, et al.), Nature Nanotechnology, 2015

Yaguang Zheng
Assistant professor of nursing, Connell School of Nursing
Ph.D.: University of Pittsburgh
Interests: Adherence to lifestyle changes; behavioral treatment for weight loss; technology-based intervention; longitudinal and trajectory analysis
Representative publication: “Impact of Perceived Barriers to Healthy Eating on Diet and Weight in a 24-Month Behavioral Weight Loss Trial” (with Jing Wang, et al.), Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 2015

Christopher Polt
Assistant professor of classical studies, Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Ph.D.: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Interests: Latin poetry; ancient and modern comedy; nature and the environment in the ancient world; translation theory and practice
Representative publication: “Polity Across the Pond: Democracy, Republic, and Empire in Phaedrus Fables 1.2,” Classical Journal, 2014/15

Angela Kim Harkins
Associate professor of New Testament, School of Theology and Ministry
Ph.D.: University of Notre Dame
Interests: Second Temple and early Christian periods; the instrumental role of emotion in reading and ritual experiences; the history of Scripture interpretation by Jewish and Christian communities
Representative publication: “The Emotional Re-Experiencing of the Hortatory Narratives found in the Admonition Section of the Damascus Document,” Dead Sea Discoveries, 2015

Andrew Jorgenson
Professor of sociology, Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Ph.D.: University of California, Riverside
Interests: Environmental sociology; political economy; sustainability science
Representative publication: “The (De-) Carbonization of Urbanization, 1960–2010” (with Daniel Auerbach and Brett Clark), Climatic Change, 2014

Emily Thorson
Assistant professor of political science, Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Ph.D.: University of Pennsylvania
Interests: How political information and misinformation reaches citizens—and the conditions under which this affects their attitudes and behavior
Representative publication: “Beyond Opinion Leaders: How Attempts to Persuade Foster Political Awareness and Campaign Learning,” Communication Research, 2014

Oliver Rafferty, SJ
Professor of history, Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences, and director of Irish Studies programs
Ph.D.: University of Oxford
Interests: 19th- and 20th-century British and Irish history; the history of Irish Christianity
Representative publication: Irish Catholic Identities (editor), Manchester University Press, 2013

Mengyao Cheng
Assistant professor of accounting, Carroll School of Management
Ph.D.: Emory University
Interests: Financial reporting issues, disclosure, and the effects of regulation and governmental policies
Representative publication: Working paper “Going Public Privately: The Role of the Cost of Premature Disclosure in the IPO Process”

Martin Scanlan
Associate professor of educational leadership and higher education, Lynch School of Education
Ph.D.: University of Wisconsin, Madison
Interests: Effective educational structures for culturally and linguistically diverse students; inclusive service delivery systems to meet students’ special needs
Representative publication: Leadership for Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Schools (with Francesca López), Routledge, 2014

Isil Alev
Assistant professor of operations management, Carroll School of Management
Ph.D.: Georgia Institute of Technology
Interests: Sustainable operations management, with a particular emphasis on business practices subject to environmental policy
Representative publication: “Rail Yard Operations Planning” (with Bahar Çavdar, et al.), Journal of Industrial Engineering, 2009

X. Peter Zhang
Professor of chemistry, Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Ph.D.: University of Pennsylvania
Interests: Catalytic systems for stereoselective chemical transformations and their applications for practical synthesis of organic molecules
Representative publication: “Stereoselective Radical C–H Alkylation with Acceptor/Acceptor-Substituted Diazo Reagents via Co(II)-Based Metalloradical Catalysis” (with Xin Cui, et al.), Chemical Science, 2015

A sampling of the 44 tenured and tenure-track faculty who joined Boston College for the 2015–16 academic year.

Photographs by Lee Pellegrini

Babak Momeni
Assistant professor of biology, Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Ph.D.: Georgia Institute of Technology
Interests: Quantitative and systems-biology approaches to the ecology and evolution of microbial communities
Representative publication: “Simulating Microbial Community Patterning Using Biocellion” (with Seunghwa Kang and Simon Kahan), Methods in Molecular Biology, 2014

Kristin Heyer
Professor of theology, Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Ph.D.: Boston College
Interests: Social ethics, migration ethics, Catholic social thought, religion and politics, moral agency
Representative publication: “The Politics of Immigration and a Catholic Counternarrative: A Perspective from the United States,” Asian Horizons, 2014

Zhuoxin (Allen) Li
Assistant professor of information systems, Carroll School of Management
Ph.D.: University of Texas at Austin
Interests: The interaction of information technology and operations/marketing, including consumer behaviors and firm strategies in platform ecosystems and IT-enabled value chains (e.g., mobile app ecosystems, online crowdfunding, and dual-channel supply chains)
Representative publication: “Supplier Encroachment as an Enhancement or a Hindrance to Nonlinear Pricing” (with Stephen Gilbert and Guoming Lai), Production and Operations Management, 2015

Aeron Hunt
Assistant professor of English, Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Ph.D.: University of Chicago
Interests: Victorian literature and culture, including popular culture, with a particular focus on gender and sexuality, associations between literature and economic life, and the figure of the veteran in literature
Representative publication: Personal Business: Character and Commerce in Victorian Literature and Culture, University of Virginia Press, 2014

Ethan Baxter
Associate professor of earth and environmental sciences, Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Ph.D.: University of California, Berkeley
Interests: Studying the chemistry of diverse Earth materials (rocks, minerals, sediments, and more) to elucidate the timescales, rates, and mechanisms of broad and interdependent geological processes such as tectonics, metamorphism, subduction, global geochemical cycles, and lithosphere-hydrosphere-atmosphere interactions
Representative publication: “Evaluating chemical equilibrium in metamorphic rocks using major element and Sm–Nd isotopic age zoning in garnet, Townshend Dam, Vermont, USA” (with Matthew Gatewood, et al.), Chemical Geology, 2015

Claudia Olivetti
Professor of economics, Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Ph.D.: University of Pennsylvania
Interests: Labor economics, family economics
Representative publication: “In the Name of the Son (and the Daughter): Intergenerational Mobility in the United States, 1850–1940” (with M. Daniele Paserman), American Economic Review, 2015

Franklin Harkins
Associate professor of Church history, School of Theology and Ministry
Ph.D.: University of Notre Dame
Interests: Medieval scholastic theology, ancient and medieval scriptural interpretation, Augustine and his reception in the Middle Ages, and the history of Jewish-Christian relations
Representative publication: “The Early Aquinas on the Question of Universal Salvation, or How a Knight May Choose Not to Ride His Horse,” New Blackfriars, 2014

Jinhee Park
Assistant professor, Connell School of Nursing
Ph.D.: University of North Carolina
Interests: Feeding difficulties of high-risk, preterm infants; biobehavioral methods for studying physiologic and behavioral parameters of infant feeding; influence of infant sleep on feeding outcomes
Representative publication: “Milk flow rates from bottle nipples used for feeding fragile infants after hospital discharge” (with Britt Pados, et al.) Advances in Neonatal Care, 2015

Carlo Maria Gallimberti
Assistant professor of accounting, Carroll School of Management
Ph.D.: Bocconi University
Interests: Debt contracts, borrower-lender information asymmetries, firms’ financing and investment decisions
Representative publication: Consolidation: Preparing and Understanding Consolidated Financial Statements under IFRS [International Financial Reporting Standards] (with Antonio Marra and Annalisa Prencipe), McGraw Hill Higher Education, 2013

Samantha Teixeira
Assistant professor, School of Social Work
Ph.D.: University of Pittsburgh
Interests: How environmental hazards in the built environment of neighborhoods impact the well-being of youth, and how youth can be engaged in creating solutions to neighborhood problems
Representative publication: “’It Seems Like No One Cares’: Participatory Photo Mapping to Understand Youth Perspectives on Property Vacancy,” Journal of Adolescent Research, 2015

North across Commonwealth Avenue sits the Brighton Campus, with the white cupola of the School of Theology and Ministry visible above the evergreens. The crane to the right is positioned at the former Cardinal’s Residence, which is being repurposed and will open in 2016 as the new home of the McMullen Museum.

To the west is St. Ignatius Church (center) and the main entrance to Lower Campus (left). Gasson Hall’s tower can be seen in the distance at left.

Facing southwest, with Stayer Hall in the foreground and St. Ignatius at right: Newly renovated St. Mary’s Hall is visible to the right of the Gasson Tower, which itself was fully refurbished in 2011.

Across St. Thomas More Road from the construction site, the view (to the south) shows the residence halls Stayer (center) and Walsh (left).

The new residence hall will have two wings—north (left) and south (right)—on either side of a main entrance courtyard.

The view from above the main entrance: The courtyard faces the primary entrance to Lower Campus.

Looking toward Lower Campus across the roofline of the north wing.

Overlooking St. Thomas More Road and Walsh Hall, with the Mods and egg carton roof of the Flynn Recreation Complex beyond.

East across the City of Boston’s Evergreen Cemetery is 2000 Commonwealth Avenue, a 16-story building owned by the University that will come online as another student residence in fall 2016.