Faculty

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 […]

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.