Members
David D. Barron
B.A./M.A., Boston University
David Barron received his B.A. and M.A. from the University Professors Program in 2007, under the guidance of Professor Greenfeld. His work with the Institute included his thesis, “Toward a Mathematical Model for the Social Sciences”, which combined mathematics and social science with the Interrogative Method as taught by Professor Jaakko Hintikka of the Department of Philosophy at BU. After graduating, Barron worked as an information technology consultant for EMC corporation. He currently owns and operates an educational software company.
Oyeshiku Carr
M.A., Boston University, Ph.D., Boston University
Oye Carr holds an MA in History and a PhD in Comparative Modern African Politics from Boston University. He is currently working as a Social Cultural Research Advisior for US AFRICOM’s Combined Joint Task Force in Djibouti. When not overseas, he operates his bicycle store, MODSquad Cycles in Harlem, New York. He also blogs on contemporary African politics and issues of US national security, race, and politics. His writing and reporting can be read on WordPress, Insight Africa, Cyclingnews.com and ZSpace.
Eric Malczewski
B.S., New York University , M.P.P., The University of Chicago
Eric Malczewski teaches social and political theory in The Committee on Degrees in Social Studies at Harvard University, and he serves on the Board of Advisors for Social Studies. Malczewski is a Ph.D. candidate in the University Professors’ Program at BU working on a transdisciplinary degree in Sociology and Political Philosophy. He has been a member of The Institute for the Advancement of the Social Sciences since 2004. His areas of interest include classical sociological theory and political philosophy, with an emphasis on the thought of Emile Durkheim and Max Weber. He is currently working on a project in the sociology of science concerning the advent and history of sociology. With Liah Greenfeld, he has coauthored two articles, “Politics as a Cultural Phenomenon” in Handbook of Politics: State and Society in Global Perspective (Springer, 2010), and “Nationalism as the Cultural Foundation of Modern Experience” in The Handbook of Cultural Sociology (Routledge, 2010). Malczewski earned his Bachelor of Science from NYU, and he was awarded a Master of Public Policy degree with Honors from The University of Chicago.
Wayne Snyder
Associate Professor, Computer Science, Boston University
B.A. Dickinson College, M.A. Tufts University, Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania
Jim Stergios
Executive Director, Pioneer Institute
B.A. Boston University, Ph.D., Boston University
Jim Stergios is Executive Director of the Pioneer Institute. Prior to joining Pioneer, he was Chief of Staff and Undersecretary for Policy in the Commonwealth’s Executive Office of Environmental Affairs, where he drove efforts on water policy, regulatory and permit reform, and urban revitalization. His prior experience includes founding and managing a business, teaching at the university level and in public and private secondary schools, serving as headmaster at a preparatory school, and writing for newspapers.
Chandler Rosenberger
Assistant Professor of International and Global Studies and Sociology, Brandeis University
B.A., Dartmouth College, M.St., University of Oxford, Ph.D., Boston University
A historical sociologist specializing in the cultural foundations of politics, Rosenberger is especially interested in the intellectual roots of political revolutions. He studied History and Philosophy at Dartmouth College and Philosophy of Religion at the University of Oxford. From 1992 to 1994, he covered the collapse of Czechoslovakia and the war in Yugoslavia as a journalist and as a fellow of the Institute of Current World Affairs. After seven years in Europe, Rosenberger returned to the United States to write a dissertation at Boston University (under the supervision of Professor Liah Greenfeld) on the dissident intellectuals who led Czechoslovakia’s “Velvet Revolution.” He then taught international relations at Boston University for nine years.
Rosenberger has written about post-Communist Central Europe for scholarly journals and for such publications as Critical Review, Human Rights Watch, National Review, World Policy Journal, and The Wall Street Journal. He is now writing a biography of former Czech dissident and president, Václav Havel. Rosenberger serves on the Board of Advisors of the Apollinaire Theatre Company in Chelsea, MA.
Hongying Hu
Lecturer on Political Science, Hebei University of Science & Technology
Hongying Hu is currently a lecturer at Hebei University of Science and Technology where she teaches courses such as the History of Sociology, Cultural Anthropology, and Political Science Education. Her research interests include political philosophy, classical sociology, nationalism, and modernity. She has directed several research programs and published a number of articles in Chinese journals. Hongying is a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Politics and Administration at Tianjing Normal University. In her coursework, she is focusing on problems in nation-building, and in particular, the study of the identity politics. Since September of 2010, she has been a visiting scholar working with Liah Greenfeld on the study of nationalism.
