CISS and CAS Celebrate 2024 Social Science Faculty Authors at Book Party

  • By: Shannon Landis

CAS social science faculty authors, and CISS faculty affiliates and staff staff gathered on February 20, 2025 in the CISS conference room to celebrate the books published by BU social scientists over the past year. Over wine and snacks, served by Catering on the Charles, the authors and faculty colleagues raised a glass in recognition of the books published in 2024. CAS Dean Stan Sclaroff, associate dean of the faculty for social sciences Arianne Chernock, and CISS director Deborah Carr greeted the authors and celebrants, and underscored that social science research is more important than ever for understanding social problems and working towards evidence-based solutions.  They raised their glasses to toast the authors, whose books and photos are featured here. 

 Celebrants included:

  •   Michel Anteby (Questrom and CAS/Sociology).  The Interloper: Lessons from Resistance in the Field (Princeton University Press)
  •   David Carballo (CAS/Archaeology).  Collective Action and the Reframing of Early Mesoamerica (Cambridge University Press)
  •   Celeste Curington (CAS/Sociology).  Laboring in the Shadow of Empire, Race, Gender, and Care Work in Portugal (Rutgers University Press)
  •   Robert Hefner (CAS/Anthropology).  Islam and Citizenship in Indonesia: Democracy and the Quest for an Inclusive Public Ethics (Routledge)
  •   Anthony Abraham Jack (Newbury Center and Wheelock).  Class Dismissed: When Colleges Ignore Inequality and Students Pay the Price Field (Princeton University Press)
  •   James H. Johnson (CAS/History).  Paris Concealed: Masks in the City of Light (The University of Chicago Press)
  •   Timothy Longman (CAS/Political Science and Pardee).  I Lived to Tell the World: Stories from Survivors of Holocaust, Genocide, and the Atrocities of War (Oregon State University Press)
  •   Alexis Peri (CAS/History).  Dear Unknown Friend: The Remarkable Correspondence between American and Soviet Women (Harvard University Press)
  •   Ronald Richardson (CAS/History).  Being-in-America: White Supremacy and the American Self (Peter Lang)
  •   Parker Shipton (CAS/Anthropology).   Family Beyond Family: The Varieties of Kinship Experience, eds. Parker Shipton and James P. Ito-Adler (Berghahn Books)
  •   Margarita Simon Guillory (CAS/Religion).  Africana Religion in the Digital Age (Routledge)
  •   David Swartz (CAS/Sociology). The Academic Trumpists: Radicals Against Liberal Diversity (Routledge)
  •   Ana Villareal (CAS/Sociology).  The Two Faces of Fear: Violence and Inequality in the Mexican (Oxford University Press)

Enjoy the party through the photos taken by CAS staff and CISS interns Katya Ravie and Anne Joseph.

CAS Dean Stan Scarloff welcomed guests and congratulated the authors.

Dr. David Carballo is the author of Collective Action and the Reframing of Early Mesoamerica
Dr. James Johnson wrote Paris Concealed: Masks in the City of Light

 

Dr. Parker Shipton is co-editor of Family Beyond Family: The Varieties of Kinship Experience.
Dr. David Swartz is author of The Academic Trumpists: Radicals Against Liberal Diversity
Dr. Ana Villerreal celebrates the publication of her first book The Two Faces of Fear: Violence and Inequality in the Mexican.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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