Faculty

Nazli Kibria publishes op-ed in The Daily Star (Bangladesh)

On Monday, our interim department chair Nazli Kibria published an op-ed in The Daily Star, the leading English language daily paper in Bangladesh. In “The politics of betrayal and trauma,” she writes on the country’s recent upheaval: “Bangladesh is now at a political crossroads. The country, I believe, can only heal from the trauma of […]

BU Sociology at ASA 2024

119th Annual Meeting: Intersectional Solidarities August 9-13, 2024 | Montreal, Quebec | #ASA2024 The 119th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA) starts this week! This year’s ASA will be in Montreal from August 9th to the 13th. It provides the opportunity for professionals involved in the scientific study of society to share knowledge […]

Loretta Lees wins International Planning History Society book prize

Loretta Lees has won the International Planning History Society’s (IPHS) First Book Prize for her publication, with Elanor Warwick, Defensible Space on the Move (Wiley, 2022). The prize is awarded to “the most innovative book in planning history, written in English and based on original new research.” Lees and Warwick accepted the prize, via Zoom, […]

Pamela Zabala Ortiz wins Aristide Zolberg Distinguished Student Scholar Award

Incoming assistant professor, and recent Duke University PhD graduate, Pamela Zabala Ortiz has won the 2024 Aristide Zolberg Distinguished Student Scholar Award. Through the ASA’s International Migration section, the award is given annually to an outstanding paper written by a graduate student member of the section published during the preceding two years. Pamela’s winning paper, […]

Saida Grundy wins ASA Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities article award

Saida Grundy has won the ASA SREM (Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities) Oliver Cromwell Cox Article Award for her 2021 article, “Lifting the Veil on Campus Sexual Assault: Morehouse College, Hegemonic Masculinity, and Revealing Racialized Rape Culture through the Du Boisian Lens”, in Social Problems. The award “recognizes research that critically addresses the issues […]

Saida Grundy receives honorable mention for Race, Gender, and Class article award

Saida Grundy has received an honorable mention in the American Sociological Association’s Section on Race, Gender, and Class Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Article Award for 2024. The article “Lifting the Veil on Campus Sexual Assault: Morehouse College, Hegemonic Masculinity, and Revealing Racialized Rape Culture through the Du Boisian Lens” was published in Social Problems 68:226-249.

Saida Grundy wins 2024 Race, Gender, and Class Book Award

Saida Grundy’s book Respectable: Politics and Paradox in Making the Morehouse Man (University of California Press, 2022) recently won the ASA’s 2024 Race, Gender, and Class Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award. The award recognizes a scholar who “has made a significant contribution to the development of the integrative field of race, gender, and class through […]