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; […]
Alumna Jennifer Drew is an Associate Professor at Lasell College
Jennifer Drew (PhD 1988), teaches Sociology at Lasell College in Newton.
Alumna Thanh-Nghi Nguyen Presents Paper at Harvard Migration and Immigration Workshop
Thanh-Nghi Nguyen (PhD 2009) is now living in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly known as Saigon) and serves as the Chair of the Sociology Department at the Open University. Tani co-authored with Prof. Eckstein on a paper, “The Making and Transnationalization of an Ethnic Niche: Vietnamese Manicurists,” presented at Harvard Migration and Immigration Workshop, February 2010.
Alumna Frances Chaput Waksler to Announces Forthcoming Book
Frances Chaput Waksler (PhD, 1973) announces her forthcoming book, The New Orleans Sniper: A Phenomenological Case Study of Constituting the Other (University Press of America, 2010). Frances is phenomenological sociologist and Professor Emerita from Wheelock College. She dedicates the book to Sociology Department Professors Emeriti George Psathas, Julius Roth, and John Mogey, as well as Erazim Kohak of the philosophy […]
BU ALUMNUS LEONARD BROOM (1911-2009)
Leonard Broom, (BS, Phi Beta Kappa, 1933; AM 1934), passed away November 19, 2009, in Santa Barbara, California, at the age of 98. One of the first sociologists to join the faculty at UCLA, he served there from 1941 through 1959. During that period, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship, served as editor of the American […]
SYLVIA DOMINGUEZ RECEIVES FORD FELLOWSHIP
Sylvia Dominguez (Sociology/SSW PhD 05) has received the Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Diversity Fellowship for Achieving Excellence in College and University Teaching. The Fellowships are given to individuals who have shown superior academic achievement, are committed to a career in teaching and research at the college or university level, show promise of future achievement as scholars […]
Alum Xiaoshuo Hou Accepts Position as Assistant Professor at St. Lawrence
Xiaoshuo Hou (PhD 2008) accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in St. Lawrence’s Sociology department in Fall 2009.
Alumnus Matt Grace to Study at Indiana University
Matt Grace (BA, 2009) was offered five years of funding in a Sociology Graduate Program at Indiana University.
Alumnus Steve Offutt to Begin as Assistant Professor of Development Studies at Asbury Theological Seminary
Steve Offutt (PhD 2008) is currently working with the Human Needs and Global Resources program at Wheaton College (in Illinois) and in January will begin a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of Development Studies at Asbury Theological Seminary.
Alumnus Michael Borer Publishes “Faithful to Fenway”
Michael Borer (PhD, 2006) Has gone on to make a name for himself in cultural sociology. His book,”Faithful to Fenway”, was published by NYU Press in 2008 and he is currently an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas.