James Aloisi

James Aloisi is a Boston-based writer, commentator and consultant with a specialty in transportation planning and policy, and law.

Jim Aloisi
Massachusetts Secretary of Transportation
In office
2009–2009
Preceded byBernard Cohen
Succeeded byJeff Mullan
Personal details
ResidenceBoston, Massachusetts
Alma materHarvard Extension School (ALM)[1]
OccupationAuthor
State cabinet secretary

Aloisi is the founding partner of the Pemberton Square Group, a consulting firm providing clients with advice in areas such as real estate, transportation, and communications.[2] He served as Massachusetts Secretary of Transportation from 2008-09,[3] was member of the Board of the Massachusetts Port Authority and Massachusetts Turnpike Authority,[2] and served on the City Protocol Society’s Technical Steering Committee.[4] Aloisi is a former partner at Hill & Barlow and Goulston & Storrs.[5]

Aloisi is a regular contributor to Commonwealth Magazine, published by MassINC, "an independent think tank uniting non-partisan research, civic journalism and independent polling".[6] He is the author of three well-regarded books on significant political and social figures and moments in the history of Massachusetts and the United States of America.

Aloisi is also a member on the board of Boston-based transit policy advocacy group TransitMatters.[7]

Books
  • The Big Dig (2004) was a brief history of Boston's Big Dig, the largest public works project in American history.[8]
  • Magic in the Air: The Times & Life of Boston's Honey Fitz (2007) recounts the ascendancy of John Francis Fitzgerald, grandfather of John F Kennedy. Fitzgerald's political career played out during a critical crossroads in Boston politics.[9]
  • The Vidal Lecture: Sex and Politics in Massachusetts and the Persecution of Chief Justice Robert Bonin (2011) documents the turbulence and discord that marked a struggle between reformers and the established political leadership, and a larger struggle between two generations of political leaders.[10]
  • "Massport at 60" (2018) commemorates the 60th anniversary of the Massachusetts Port Authority and documents its history across local and state politics.[11]

References
  1. https://archives.lib.state.ma.us/bitstream/handle/2452/125121/ocn795183245-2008-12-19b.PDF?sequence=1
  2. "Who we are". Pscgroup.org. Retrieved June 4, 2023.
  3. "Aloisi named secretary of transportation | Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation". www.masstaxpayers.org. Archived from the original on February 16, 2017.
  4. "DUSP MIT Jim Aloisi". dusp.mit.edu. Retrieved July 19, 2023.
  5. Goulston & Storrs
  6. "About Us". Massinc.
  7. "People-Old". transitmatters.org.
  8. Aloisi, James A.; Allison, Robert J. (2004). The Big Dig. ISBN 1889833827.
  9. James a. Aloisi, Jr (March 2007). Magic in the Air: The Times and Life of Boston's Honey Fitz. ISBN 978-0978825904.
  10. Aloisi, James A. (2012). The Vidal Lecture: Sex and Politics in Massachusetts and the Persecution of Chief Justice Robert Bonin. ISBN 978-0978825911.
  11. "Book review: Massport at 60". April 10, 2018.


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