CISS and CAS Celebrate 2025 Faculty Authors at Book Party
CAS social science faculty authors, and CISS faculty affiliates and staff staff gathered this past week on February 26, 2026 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 2025. 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. Enjoy the party through the photos below…
Celebrants included:
Michelle Amazeen (COM/Mass Communication). Content Confusion (MIT Press)
Joanna Davidson (CAS/Anthropology). Pathos and Power (Ohio University Press)
Megan Elias (MET/Food Studies & Gastronomy). Queers at the Table (Arsenal Pulp Press)
Eric Peinert (CAS/Political Science). Monopoly Politics (Oxford University Press)
Celebrants not pictured:
Michael Birenbaum-Quinteto ( CAS/AA&BDS) “La cultura es una lucha política” Biografía testimonial de Alicia Camacho Garcés una lunchadora antirracista (Universidad del Valle)
Rosella Cappella Zielinski (CAS/Political Science) and Paul Poast Wheat at War: Allied Economic Cooperation in the Great War (Oxford University Press)
Lida Maxwell (CAS/Political Science). Rachel Carson and the Power of Queer Love (Stanford University Press)
David Mayers (CAS/History). Seekers and Partisans: Americans Abroad in the Crisis Years, 1935-1941 (Cambridge University Press)
Fallou Ngom (CAS/Anthropology & African Studies Center). Beyond African Orality: The ‘Ajami Poetry of Sëriñ Mbay Jaxate (Oxford University Press)
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