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RECENT NEWS

May 1, 2007
Katie McNamara, our department administrator, has won the prestigious John S. Perkins Distinguished Service Award this year. (See the Headline Story of BU Today).

May 19, 2007
Professor Julian Go has won the 2007 Frank and Lynne Wisneski Award for Excellence in Teaching.

September 7, 2005
Nancy Ammerman's book, "Pillars of Faith", has won the Distinguished Book Award from the sociology of religion section of the American Sociological Association. Congratulations! (Read Press Release).


August 11, 2005
We regret to learn that Irwin Sanders, influential sociologist, Balkans expert and former faculty in our department, has recently passed. (Download obituary from the Boston Globe).


July 24, 2005
More progress to report:

 Dr. Jessica Casiro successfully defended her dissertation last Tuesday. Congratulations to Jessica on a wonderful piece of work! [Angels in Hell: A Study of Argentine Rescuers during the Political Killings of 1976-1983"] She is our seventh PhD to finish in 2005.

 Dr. Michael Borer, who defended his in June, was featured in the Boston Globe last Sunday in a special article, Pray Ball, by Joshua Glenn.

 This Sunday's Globe includes an article about economic sociology, Market Share, by Virginia Postrel in which Laurel, and her mentor Woody Powell, are cited on several occasions.

Professor John Stone
Chairman

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July 10, 2005

The 37th Congress of the International Institute of Sociology was held in Stockholm, Sweden, July 5-10. Our faculty were well represented: Stephen Kalberg, Emily Barman, Alya Guseva, Julian Go and Pat Rieker all presented papers. Shown above: Professors Julian Go, Emily Barman, Alya Guseva, and Pat Rieker at the reception, held in Stockholm's famous city hall where the Nobel Prizes are awarded.

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June 15, 2005

I am very pleased to announce that Michael successfully defended his dissertation on Friday and now is Dr. Borer. He becomes 2005-No.6 on the PhD scoreboard. Well done Michael! Professor John Stone Chairman

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May 23, 2005
CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR 2005 GRADUATES!
The sociology commencement ceremony was held on May 22, 2005. Congratulations to all of our B.A. and Ph.D. students. We are especially proud to honor inductees to the Alpha Kappa Delta Honors sociology society and Phi Beta Kappa. To download a list and the commencement program, click here.
 

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April 12, 2005
It gives me great pleasure to announce the following excellent recent achievements by our students and faculty.


1. Zhao Feng successfully defended her dissertation. Congratulations to Zhao and to all her mentors (Liz, Nazli, Pat and Peter) for this fifth addition to the 2005 PhDs.

2. Congratulations to Michelle Poulin for winning an NSF Dissertation Fellowship (and, once again, to Pat Rieker for her encouragement and advice).
Well done to Dr Susan Lee (PhD 2003, and currently teaching in CGS) for getting a contract from Routledge to publish a revised version of her dissertation.

3. Congratulations to Erica Blom, a sophomore sociology major, for winning both the University's Student Employee of the Year, as well as the Massachusetts' Student Employee of the Year Awards. Her fascinating work encouraging literacy among inner city students is featured in the BU Bridge.

4. Congratulations to the Undergraduate Sociology Association (Tanvi & Co.) for winning the 2004/5 Undergraduate Student Association Award. As the Award Committee noted: "The Undergraduate Sociology Association is to be applauded for its recent reformation, and especially for its outreach to Boston University students, faculty and alumni, as well as to other schools and colleges both inside and outside the University."
      

Professor John Stone
Chairman

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SOCIOLOGY COLLOQUIA 2006-2007

Fall 2007 Schedule Coming Soon!

 

Spring 2007

Theme: Applying the Sociological Imagination - Part 2

1.) January 24th                     Prof. Charalambos Demetriou
                        “Political Violence & Legitimation: The Episode of Colonial Cyprus”
 
2.) January 31st                                Andrea Ryan 
                        “Ethnic Individualism: Dominicans in Lawrence, Massachusetts”
    
3.) February 14th                             Margaret Boyd
                       “American Apartheid Revisited: Homeownership in Mattapan”       

4.) February 21st                    Prof. Zine Magubane (Boston College)
                    “From the Mommy Wars to the Wars on Terror: Women as Boundary Markers of Empire in the Twenty First Century”                 

5.) February 28th                              Ines Fritz
                       “Brazilians in Boston: Dancing Around the One-Drop Rule”

6.) March 7th                 Prof. Stephen Mennell (University College, Dublin)
                     “Elias in the Land of Liberty: The American Civilising Process”

7.) March 21st                              Masayo Nishida
                   “Invisible Intruders? German and Japanese Elite Migrants in Boston”

8.) March 28th                             Rogerio Medeiros
                   “ Between Conflict and Cooperation: The Dilemma of NGO-State Relations in Brazil

9.) April 4th                               Xiaoshuo Hou
                  “Capitalist Communism: A Tale of Three (Chinese) Villages”

10.) April 11th             Profs. Catherine Krull & Susan Eckstein
                   “ Cuba after Castro: Two Sociological Perspectives

11.) April 18th        Prof. Don Tomascovic-Devey (U.Mass - Amherst)
                    “Documenting Desegregation: Who Benefited in Private Sector Employment Since the Civil Rights Act of 1964? ”

12.) April 26th [*Thursday]         Prof. Viviana Zelizer (Princeton University)
                   “Who's got the Ethics? ”


Fall 2006: Seminar Series
Wed. 12-1:30 (unless otherwise noted) Rm. 241, Soc. Department, 96 Cummington St.

October 4th            Dr. Dorren McMahon (University College, Dublin)

                                   “The Impact of Immigration on Ireland” 
         

October 11th     Dr. Theresa Montini (Boston University and SUNY Medical Center)

                                      “Content Analysis of Patient Complaints”


November 1st           Professor Jeff Coulter (Boston University)
                          
                                           “Reflections on Lebanon, 2006”


November  29th     Professor  Karen Lutfey (New England Research Institute)
                        
           “Should Medical Sociology Worry About the Epistemology of Epidemiology?”


December  6th    Professor Scott Davies (McMaster & Harvard Universities)
                                  
                    “Providing for the Priceless Student: Ideologies of Choice in
                                               Contemporary Education”
                                  
                 

         [ Everyone Welcome. As these lectures are over lunchtime, feel free to bring your lunch
                                             with you. Coffee and drinks will be available. ]        



SOCIOLOGY COLLOQUIA 2005-2006
Fall 2005: Seminar Series
Wed. 10:00-12:00 (unless otherwise noted) Rm. 241, Soc. Department, 96 Cummington St.


Theresa Montini (Boston University)
“Health Policy and Community Activists”
September 28th

Emily Barman (Boston University)
“An Institutional Approach to Donor Control:
from Dyadic Ties to a Field-Level Analysis”
October 12th

Jasmine Waddell (Wellesley College)
“Social Policy, South African Style:
Implementing Ubuntu”
November 30th


Neil Gross (Harvard University)
“Pragmatism and the American Sociological Tradition”
December 8th*
[*note change of day: Thursday]



SOCIOLOGY COLLOQUIA 2004-2005

Spring 2005: Graduate Research Series
Wed. 12:30-2:00, Rm. 275, Soc. Department, 96 Cummington St.

9 February
Silvia Dominguez
"Southie and Eastie Latinas: navigating resources in public housing"

23 February
Zhao Feng
"Medicalizing Menopause"

9 March
Tba

23 March
Jessica Casiro
"Altruism in Argentina: myths and reality"

6 April
Michelle Poulin
"Transactional Sex: Malawi Youth in the Context of AIDS"

20 April
Alex Curley
"Hope and Housing: economics, health and networks"