Guest Speaker Paul Bauer (CAS SO '02)
2012 College Prize Winner Elisa Gill
Faculty at the 2012 Commencement
PHD Recipient Wei Wei Zhang and Professor John Stone
PHD Recipient Itai Vardi and Professor Laurel Smith-Doerr
When Pres. Obama endorsed gay marriage, he noted that his faith tells him that the Golden Rule is a key value. In a Huffington Post column yesterday, writer David Gibson explores the importance of the Golden Rule in American culture, quoting research by Prof. Nancy Ammerman. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/11/obama-gay-marriage-golden-rule_n_1507912.html.
In following with the tradition set forth by the sociology department of having past graduates speak at commencement, we are proud to have Paul Bauer (BA, ’02) return to Boston to address the 2012 graduating class of seniors. Paul graduated double major in SO and PS, magna cum laude. He will pass on his wisdom as a BU grad to the students, as well as relate his experience in the real world to what he learned within our department.
A brief bio on our guest speaker:
After graduation he moved to Washington where he served on the staff of U.S. Representative Robert Andrews (NJ), advising the Congressman on policy issues ranging from education and foreign affairs to labor and trade. Thereafter he went on to law school at the University of Chicago, and currently he is on staff at a major law firm in Manhattan (Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler) where he specializes in commercial litigation matters ranging from securities litigation to intellectual property to white collar defense. He also does important pro bono work on problems of human trafficking and juveniles seeking special immigrant status.
Arlie Hochschild, our 2012 guest lecturer of the 4th Annual Morris Lecture, recently published a major feature Sunday edition of the New York Times (5/5/2012). Her piece, “The Outsourced Life” highlighted many of the key points of her featured talk here at BU. Click here to read her article, and here to view event pictures.
Sociology Ph.D Candidate Elyas Bakhtiari was awarded one of three graduate student fellowships under the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellows Program. These prestigious national fellowships provide generous support for three years of study, available for fellows to use at any point in the next five years. Elyas works closely with Sigrun Olafsdottir, Assistant Professor of Sociology. The other new fellows from BU are graduate students Allison Gill (Biology) and Alissa Rickborn (Biology).
Troy Duster is a Professor of Sociology at New York University. His research focuses on the sociology of science and knowledge, deviance, control and law, and race and ethnicity. He has published numerous books, including Backdoor to Eugenics (Routledge, 2003) and Whitewashing Race: The Myth of Colorblind Society (with M. Brown et al., University of California Press, 2003). Professor Duster will be presenting his talk, “ Personalized Genomics, Racialized Genomics: The Tangled Web of Big Pharma and Big Science in the Pursuit of Genetic Explanations of Health Disparities” at 12PM in room 241 of the Sociology department. The event is free and all are welcome to join. Click here for more details
Photos from the 4th Annual Morris Lecture in Sociology featuring Arlie Hochschild of the University of California Berkeley are now posted here.
We want to extend a warm thank you to all who attended. We look forward to having you at future Sociology events. Please take a look at our next two seminar series in Sociology, happening April 27th and May 11th, here in the Soicology Department.
Courtney Feldscher is the recipient of a 2012 SAGE Teaching Innovations & Professional Development Award. This honor is awarded by the ASA Section on Teaching and Learning in Sociology to support promising graduate students and pre-tenure faculty. As a recipient, Courtney will participate in the ASA pre-conference workshop, The Art at the Heart of Learner-Centered Teaching, this August in Denver
Please join us at 5PM this Friday, April 13th at the Photonics Center Colloquium room (9th floor) for the 4th Annual Morris Lecture in Sociology. The event is free and open to all who wish to join. There will be a reception after the event as well, to meet with the speaker and Sociology faculty and graduate students.
Sociology's 4th Annual Morris lecture with Arlie Hochschild
Professor Nazli Kibria will receive full professorship on September 1st,2012. You can read more about Professor Kibria and the 11 other professor’s who received this honor at the March 21st issue of BU today
Professor Kibria (bottom middle) Photo Courtesty of BU Today 3-21-2012
”Professor Kibria teaches international migation, families, childhood, and modern South Asia. She is the author most recently of Muslims in Motion: Islam and National Identity in the Bangladeshi Diaspora. Her doctorate is from the University of Pennsylvania.”-BU Today.
