IOC-affiliated Faculty honored at 2022 Community and Urban Sociology Awards

The Boston University Initiative on Cities is proud to report that two of our affiliated faculty have been honored at the 2022 Community and Urban Sociology Awards. Community and Urban Sociology is a section of the American Sociological Association.

Assistant Professor Jessica Simes won the Robert E. Park Book Award for Punishing Places: The Geography of Mass Imprisonment. The award “goes to the author(s) of the best book published in the past 2 years.” Simes received an IOC Early Stage Urban Research Award for research contributing to the book, and presented the book and its findings at a book talk at the IOC in November, 2021.

IOC Faculty Fellow Professor Japonica Brown-Saracino received honorable mention for the Jane Addams Article Award, which “goes to authors of the best scholarly article in community and urban sociology published in the past 2 years.” Brown-Saracino was honored for “The Afterlife of Identity Politics: Gentrification, Critical Nostalgia, and the Commemoration of Lost Dyke Bars,” which was published in the American Journal of Sociology.