Pamela Zabala Ortiz publishes new article in Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
Assistant Professor Pamela Zabala Ortiz has published a new article in the journal Sociology of Race and Ethnicity. In “We’re Expected to Be Homogenous”: Contesting Latinidad and the Myth of Panethnic Inclusion, Zabala Ortiz explores “the kinds of ethnoracial contestations that occur among Latines as they negotiate what it means to take on that panethnic […]
Laboring in the Shadow of Empire: Undergraduate student Lenny Adonteng on Professor Celeste Curington’s new book
By Lenny Adonteng (Sociology, Class of 2025) Professor Celeste Curington’s new book, Laboring in the Shadow of Empire, offers an exploration of the intersections of race, gender, and labor in Portugal. This new work builds on themes she examined in her earlier publication, The Dating Divide, which focused on race and relationship formation within the […]
Celeste Curington publishes new article in the Fall 2024 issue of Contexts
Assistant Professor Celeste Curington has an article in the Fall 2024 issue of Contexts. In “Daring to Feel Joy,” Curington writes “The policing of community space attempts to thwart possibilities for Black joy, yet it endures. Black joy resists and persists.” The full article is available here.
Loretta Lees helps develop new tool to fight gentrification in Louisville, Kentucky
On November 21st, a new tool aimed at preventing public dollars from funding developments that could displace residents passed with unanimous support from the Louisville, Kentucky Metro Council. The first of its kind in the United States, the tool was developed with the help of Loretta Lees, Sociology professor and director of the Initiative on […]
Japonica Brown-Saracino & Landon Lauder quoted in new Boston.com article
An article published today on Boston.com explores the question “When can you say you’re ‘from Boston’?” It goes on to examine why the question, “So, where are you from?” can surprisingly be difficult to answer even for people called Boston home for many years. Japonica Brown-Saracino is quoted in the article, explaining: “As neighborhoods gentrify, […]
Ana Villarreal’s book reviewed in ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America
Ana Villarreal’s book, The Two Faces of Fear: Violence and Inequality in the Mexican Metropolis (Oxford, 2024), was recently reviewed in ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America. In the review, sociologist and historian Gema Kloppe-Santamaría calls The Two Faces of Fear, “A powerful, perceptive, and conceptually persuasive account on the impact of fear in people’s everyday […]
Alya Guseva and Ya-Ching Huang publish article in Journal of Cultural Economy
Alya Guseva and Ya-Ching Huang have published a new article in the Journal of Cultural Economy. “The Moral Economy of Severe Scarcity: How Considerations of Deservingness Shape Cloth Mask Distribution Practices in the Midst of a Global Health Crisis” is available to read in full here.
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, […]