ASHOK KAMAL (CLASS OF 2001), SPEAKER AT 2011 SOCIOLOGY COMMENCEMENT
Graduate Ashok Kamal (BA 2001) took stage Sunday, May 22nd as the guest speaker for the 2011 commencement ceremony. Ashok is a social entrepreneur and Co-Founder & CEO of Bennu, which is a socially responsible product development and marketing company that completes the recycling loop (www.bennuworld.com). His career spans the for-profit and nonprofit sectors, including […]
Alumnus Roman Williams Joins Institute for International and Intercultural Studies at Union University
Roman R. Williams (PhD 2010) is an Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Institute for International and Intercultural Studies at Union University in Jackson, Tennessee.
Alumna Katie Watts in Paris, France
Katie Watts (B.A., 09) has been in the process of slowly degrading into a Parisian since she moved to France in 2010. After sints teaching English, studying at the Sorbonne and working for the fashion department at Parsons Paris, she is currently working towards her MBA in Cultural Management. She lives in an apartment the size […]
UNDERGRADUATE ALUM JENNIFER MACY SUMNER WINS NSF FUNDING
Jennifer Macy Sumner (SO’99), has won National Science Foundation funding for her comparative research on the incarceration of transgender inmates in the U.S. and in Italy. Sumner is currently an assistant professor of criminal justice at Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg, and is continuing her research in Italy this spring.
Alumnus Keith Roberts awarded 2010 ASA Award
Keith A. Roberts (Ph.D., 1976) has been awarded the 2010 ASA Award for Distinguished Contributions to Teaching. A professor of sociology at Hanover College, in Indiana, Roberts is only the third teaching honoree who has made a career in a small liberal arts college. He has published textbooks in the sociology of religion and introductory sociology. […]
NEW BOOK BY ALUMNI SILVIA DOMINGUEZ
Silvia Dominguez (Sociology/SSW PhD ’05) recently had her book Getting Ahead: Social Mobility, Public Housing and Immigrant Networks (2011 NYU Press) published. The book is based on three years of ethnographic research in two public housing developments in Boston. It describes the way in which Latin American immigrant women achieve social mobility in today’s world.
NEW BOOK BY ALUMNI FRANCES CHAPUT WAKSLER
Frances Chaput Waksler (PhD, Sociology, 1973) announces her forthcoming book The New Orleans Sniper: A Phenomenological Case Study of Constituting the Other (University Press of America, 2010) which traces the events of a 1973 attack in New Orleans. Many believed the attack be the work of multiple snipers when it was really only one. […]
Alum Sonali Jain Joins Duke University as Post-Doctoral Fellow
Sonali Jain (PhD 2010) is a post-doctoral fellow at Duke University’s Social Sciences Research Institute.
RENOWNED PHOTOGRAPHER AND SOCIOLOGY ALUM RANDY H. GOODMAN TO OPEN EXHIBIT NOVEMBER 9TH
On Thursday November 9th, famed photographer and political sociology alum Randy H. Goodman will be featured at the Boston University Women’s Resource Center Artists opening. His exhibit, titled: IRAN: Images from Beneath A Chador The Hostage Crisis to the Iran-Iraq War, is open from Nov 9th-30th, 2010. The event as well as the exhibit are […]
Alumna Ewa Morawska is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex, UK
Ewa Morawska (PhD 1976) is Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex, UK. Her scholarly research focuses on comparative-historical sociology of international migration, ethnicity, and citizenship (past and present, North America and Europe). Select books include A Sociology of Immigration. (Re)Making Multifaceted America, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009; and International Migration Research: Constructions, Omissions, and Promises of Interdisciplinarity co-editor (with […]