Meghann Lucy receives ASA 2023 Student Paper Award
PhD candidate Meghann Lucy received the 2023 Student Paper Award from the American Sociological Association’s Consumers & Consumption section for her paper “Divestment as Investment: ‘Kondo-ing’ Selves in the Context of Overaccumulation.” Read her prize-winning paper in the Journal of Consumer Culture.
New publications by Jonathan Mijs
Professor Jonathan Mijs, with co-author Selcan Mutgan (Linköping University), published a new article in Sociological Science, titled “Income Inequality and Residential Segregation in “Egalitarian” Sweden: Lessons from a Least Likely Case”. Please click here to read and find the abstract below: “Drawing on individual-level full-population data from Sweden, spanning four decades, we investigate the joint […]
Japonica Brown-Saracino interviewed on WBUR’s Radio Boston
BU Sociology chair Japonica Brown-Saracino appeared on WBUR’s Radio Boston to talk about lesbian bars in Boston. There are fewer than 30 such bars in the country and Professor Brown-Saracino helps explain why that’s the case and also how local LGBTQ groups have been filling the void. Listen to the segment on WBUR here.
Elinore Avni named 2023 Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellow
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future announced Sociology PhD candidate Elinore Avni as one of its 2023 Graduate Summer Fellows. Elinore is one of eight outstanding Boston University graduate students representing four different schools or colleges and eight different academic departments. Starting May 30, the Graduate Summer Fellows will […]
Cati Connell awarded 2023 SSSP Outstanding Book Award
Professor Cati Connell’s new book, A Few Good Gays: The Gendered Compromises behind Military Inclusion, was just awarded the Outstanding Book Award for 2023 by the SSSP Division of Sexual Behavior, Politics, and Communities. The award is intended to recognize published work of exceptional quality in the areas of global studies and social problems and […]
Leping Wang named 2022-2023 Outstanding Teaching Fellow
Congratulations to 3rd year PhD student Leping Wang who has been named as the Sociology Department’s Outstanding Teaching Fellow for the 2022-2023 academic year, an award given by the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. Leping has demonstrated the greatest skill, enthusiasm and dedication in her role as a Teaching Fellow this academic year, and […]
CAS Writing Award to Nikki Huang’s Honors Thesis
Our graduating senior Nikki Huang has won a CAS Alumni Award for Writing Excellence for her Sociology Honors thesis, “Going Global: The Filipino Elite and US Higher Education.” The Michael A. Sassano III Award for Writing Excellence in the Social Sciences recognizes her achievement with a $500 prize and will be spotlighted at the CAS […]
Neha Gondal to receive 2023 CAS Dean’s Award for Excellence in Graduate Education
Congratulations to Neha Gondal on receiving the 2023 College of Arts & Sciences Dean’s Award for Excellence in Graduate Education! Each year, CAS honors some of our best educators with a range of teaching awards. These prizes are awarded annually to members of the CAS faculty who exemplify deep and broad commitment, skill, effectiveness, impact, […]
Nazli Kibria published in the Boston Globe
“In a society where so many of our relationships are fleeting and easily cut off,” Nazli Kibria writes in a new piece in the Boston Globe, “sibling ties stand out for their permanence. These are durable, flexible relationships that can withstand bumps along the road.” Kibria’s article, “‘Love you brother, but despise your politics’: How […]
Jonathan Mijs receives major grant for research project
Congratulations to Jonathan Mijs on receiving a major grant from the Volkswagen Foundation for a 4-year international research project, WealthTalks: The (re-)production of wealth inequality in everyday talk. Jonathan will conduct the study with colleagues at the Freie Universitat Berlin, the London School of Economics, the University of Rio de Janeiro and the University of […]