ALUMNI FORUM
Alumni Forum
We cordinally invite former students, undergraduate or graduate, to share their recollections, latest news, or photos on this page. Please send them to socinfo@bu.edu or to the departmental mailing address below. We look forward to hearing from all of you.
ALUMNI NEWS
Masayo Nishida will continue her research on integration of highly skilled migrants as a post-doc fellow at the European University Institute, in Florence, Italy.
Xiaoshuo Hou (PhD 2008) is Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology at UMass, Amherst.
Polly Rizova (PhD 2003) is an Associate Professor of
Management and Sociology at the Atkinson Graduate School of Management,
Willamette University, Portland, Oregon. Her book, The Secret of
Success: The Double Helix of Formal and Informal Structures in an R & D
Laboratory was published by Stanford University Press in October 2007.
Timothy J. Berard (PhD 2002), Kent State University, presented a paper “Commonsense and Interpretive Versions of Deviance in the Classroom,” at the meetings of the Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences, Boston, November 6-8, 2003.
Peter Conrad (PhD 1973), Professor of Sociology, Brandeis University received the prestigious Leo G. Reeder Award in Medical Sociology at the ASA Meetings in San Francisco, CA in August, 2004
Jennifer Drew (PhD 1988), is now teaching at Lasell College in Newton.
Elaine C. Hagopian (PhD 1962) is an editor of a new book, Civil Rights in Peril—The Targeting of Arabs and Muslims with Haymarket Books.
Doris Hamner (PhD 1997), is a Research Associate at the Institute for Community Inclusion at UMass Boston where she continues to do qualitative research as well as grant writing. She has published Building
Bridges: A Student Guide to Service-Learning, with Allyn and Bacon in 2002.
David Helm (PhD 1981), is Research Director at the Institute for Community Inclusion at UMass Boston. The Institute focuses on problems of disability and holds research grants from various sources including the Department of Labor and the Department of Education.
Kathleen Jordan (PhD 1992) will be an Adjunct Faculty member in the Department of Behavioral and Political Science, Bentley College, Waltham, MA beginning in September 2004.
Kwang-ki Kim (PhD 1999), Sung Kyun Kwan University, South Korea, presented a paper “The Ubiquity of Typification: A Phennomenological Study of Alfred Schutz’s Concept of Typification,” at the meetings of the Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences, Boston, November 6-8, 2003.
Susan Lee (PhD 2002) is now teaching at the College of General Studies, Boston University.
SUPPORT SOCIOLOGY: CONSIDER A BEQUEST
Support Sociology: Consider a Bequest
A bequest by will, revocable living trust, or other similar plan offers alumni one of the more flexible ways of supporting the Sociology department while preserving the donor’s financial security.
Assets from an estate can pass under will or trust to legatees in the following ways:
- The donor directs that a specific amount come to the department. With this option donors know exactly what sun will be applied to the department.
- Similarly, a donor can designate a specific item or asset to be given to the department.
- A donor can also specify that a percentage of the value of the estate go to the department. Provisions for family members should, of course, come first in a donor’s estate plans.
Prior consultation with a University representative will ensure that the assets will be put to its best use and fit in with long-term goals of the department. For additional information, please write or call Mary H Tambiah, Director of the Office of Gift and Estate Planning. One Sherborn Street, 7th Floor, Boston, MA 02215. Telephone numbers (617) 353-2254; (800) 645-2347; www.bu.edu/alnmni/gep; email: gep@bu.edu
