Max A. Greenberg
Max A. Greenberg researches and teaches in the areas of political sociology, youth and families, and gender. His most recent book, Twelve Weeks to Change a Life: At Risk Youth in a Fractured State, examines the reorganization of state power around short-term grants and fleeting programs. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and historical research, the book […]
Japonica Brown-Saracino
Japonica Brown-Saracino is an ethnographer who specializes in urban and community sociology, cultural sociology, and the study of sexualities. Her most recent book, How Places Make Us: Novel LBQ Identities in Four Small Cities, was published in 2018 by the University of Chicago Press. The book draws on her comparative ethnography of four small cities […]
Deborah Carr
Deborah Carr is Professor and Chair of the Boston University sociology department. She is a life course sociologist who has written extensively on health and aging among older adults, late-life family relationships, and death and dying. Dr. Carr has authored several books including the undergraduate textbooks Introduction to Sociology, Essentials of Sociology, and The Art […]
Joseph Harris
Joseph Harris is an Assistant Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Department of Sociology at Boston University. He is a two-time recipient of the Fulbright Scholarship and a Henry Luce Scholar. In 2017, he was awarded the Gitner Award for Distinguished Teaching. He has been very excited about the contributions of the WID […]
Natalie Russo
Natalie Russo is the department administrator for the Department of Sociology. She handles all financial matters–including hiring and compensating the writing tutors–and works closely with the department chair and senior program coordinator to make sure academic operations happen as they should. A BU alumna, Natalie majored in classical civilizations (CAS’15) and mass communication (COM’15) with […]