TWO BU ALUMS WIN MAJOR ASA AWARDS
Philip Kasinitz (B.A., 1979) will be awarded the 2010 ASA Award for the Distinguished Scholarly Book. A long-time student of international migration and a widely sought expert on New York immigrants, he is being honored for Inheriting the City: The Children of Immigrants Come of Age (written with Mary Waters, John Mollenkopf, and Jennifer Holdaway; Harvard University Press, 2008). Kasinitz is Professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center and Hunter College of the City University of New York and a former President of the Eastern Sociological Society. His previous work has won numerous other awards, as well. Congratulations Phil!
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Keith A. Roberts (Ph.D., 1976) will be awarded the 2010 ASA Award for Distinguished Contributions to Teaching. Roberts, who teaches at Hanover College, in Indiana, is only the third teaching honoree who has made a career in a small liberal arts college. The award recognizes contributions that have made a significant impact on the manner in which sociology is taught. Each year since 1991, Roberts has conducted a workshop for high school teachers of sociology in various cities in the Midwest. He frequently leads teaching workshops for college professors at professional meetings, and is a member of the ASA’s Departmental Resources Group. He has published textbooks in the sociology of religion and introductory sociology. His religion book, Religion in Sociological Perspective, is the best selling textbook in that field in the U.S. and is used extensively beyond the U.S., as well. Congratulations Keith!