Ph.D. Candidate Megan O’Leary wins ESS Award
The Eastern Sociological Society is honoring PhD candidate Megan O’Leary with this year’s Rose Laub Coser Award. The Coser award is given annually to a graduate student for an outstanding doctoral dissertation proposal in the area of the family or gender and society. It will be presented to Megan during the Awards ceremony, Saturday March […]
Professor Japonica Brown-Saracino speaks at Brandeis University
Professor Japonica Brown-Saracino gave the colloquium talk at Brandeis University’s Department of Sociology on February 28th, 2013 at 3:30 PM. Her talk is titled “Pride of Place:Queer Female Identities and Communities in Four Small U.S. Cities.” February 28th, 2013, Pearlman Lounge – 3:30-4:50 PM Brandeis University Pearlman Building, MS 071, Waltham, Massachusetts 02453 For more information, please […]
Professor Ashley Mears Comments on Fashion Week
National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered” took note of this year’s New York Fashion Week with a story noting the dominance of white models on the runways. In the February 15 story, they included note of Ashley Mears’s book Pricing Beauty and incorporated a comment from Professor Mears. Listen to the full story on their […]
Professor Ruha Benjamin discusses significance of Mount Rushmore in video for BU Professor Voices
In a video for BU’s Professor Voices, Professor Ruha Benjamin discusses “the history of Mount Rushmore, her interpretation of what it represents, and whose face she would put on it.” See the full video at the BU Professor Voices website.
Professor Nazli Kibria Elected Vice-President of Eastern Sociological Society
Professor Nazli Kibria has been elected Vice-President of the Eastern Sociological Society, for a one-year term beginning in 2014. Nazli has been active in a number of leadership roles in the Society, which will hold its annual meeting in Boston March 21-24. Congratulations, Nazli!
New Grant funds Prof. Olafsdottir’s research
A $150,000 grant from the Icelandic Centre of Research will fund the continuing inclusion of Iceland in the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP). This cross-national collaboration across 49 countries allows researchers around the world to compare attitudes and social conditions, and Iceland is an important case for such comparisons. Professor Sigrun Olafsdottir will be the […]
People’s Science on the web and on the move
Professor Ruha Benjamin has been travelling extensively in anticipation of the upcoming release of People’s Science:Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier. She recently reported on her visit to BIOPOLIS–a research center in Singapore focusing on biomedical research, “where you’ll find buildings called Nanos, Genome, Helios, Chromos, Proteos, Centros, and Neuros. But what […]
Joseph A. Harris will join the Sociology Faculty
It is increasingly clear that understanding health also means understanding economic and political policies, and beginning in Fall 2013, the Sociology Department will be joined by Prof. Joseph Harris as Assistant Professor, with a specialization in Global Health and Development. Prof. Harris is a 2012 graduate of the University of Wisconsin, with a 2005 […]
Patterns of Empire named to Choice’s 2012 “Outstanding Academic Titles” list
The American Library Association’s publication Choice publishes hundreds of reviews of academic publications, but only a few make their annual list of “outstanding” titles. Professor Julian Go’s latest book, Patterns of Empire, has been included in this year’s list, recognizing its overall excellence and originality. The New Left Project recently interviewed Professor Go about his book. […]
Emeritus Professor George Psathas honored by Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences
At its annual meeting, November 1-3, 2012, in Rochester, N.Y., the Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences (SPHS) honored George Psathas, Emeritus Professor of Sociology (Boston University) for his contributions to phenomenological sociology and ethnomethodology with a special session and a Festschrift, Interaction and Everyday Life, edited by Frances Chaput Waksler and Hisashi Nasu, published by Lexington […]