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David Luberoff is a lecturer on sociology and a senior project advisor to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study’s Boston Area Research Initiative. From 2004 until 2012, he was Executive Director of Harvard’s Rappaport Institute for Greater…

Justin D. Stern is a third-year PhD Student whose research focuses on the history and theory of urban form in rapidly urbanizing regions. His dissertation project studies the interplay of industrialization, institutional development and spatial…

Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) is ranked as one of the “most comprehensive art museums in the world,” boasting a collection of nearly 450,000 works—ranging from Ancient Egyptian artifacts to pieces of Contemporary Art. Access to such an…

I use Emelie Durkheim’s book, The
Elementary Forms of Religious Life, as a
mechanism with which to analyze how sports,
specifically the Red Sox, function in the city
of Boston. Rooting my discussion in the
theme of the book, that religion…

Although college students make up 9.98% of the average United States metro area population, college students comprise over 40% of the Boston metro area population. With over 50 colleges and universities located in the greater Boston area, and since…

This project is a set of poems about my most treasured places and memories in Boston. It explores how I understand Boston geographically and emotionally as a city and the powerful way that place can take on memory. I wrote about the Common, Quincy…

The Boston Marathon has been a definitive cultural and social event in Boston since 1897. Each year schools across Boston close for Marathon Monday and thousands of people flock to the Finish Line to cheer on friends, family, and even strangers. But…

My paper focused on the roles that institutions like the aquarium and zoo play in a city like Boston. Both institutions offer people a unique experience to see and sometimes interact with animals that are usually only seen on television or films…