Saida Grundy elected committee chair for ASA distinguished career award
Saida Grundy has been elected chair of the selection committee for the ASA Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology. Grundy will serve a three-year term, starting August 31st, and will replace the current chair, Tasleem Padamsee.
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 […]
Jyoti Puri and Ana Villarreal elected to 2024 ASA positions
Congratulations to Jyoti Puri and Ana Villarreal for being elected to the ASA Culture Council, and to Ana Villarreal for her election the Community and Urban Sociology Section Publications Committee.
Spring 2024 department news updates
It’s been another busy semester! Here are some of the highlights of recent good news from our amazing faculty, graduate and undergraduate students, and recent alums: FACULTY Congratulations to Neha Gondal and Jessica Simes who both received tenure and were promoted to associate professor this month! This is a richly deserved accomplishment and we are […]
PhD student Andrew Ward publishes gentrification op-ed in Cambridge Day
In a new Cambridge Day op-ed, PhD student Andrew Ward utilizes his research from Professor Loretta Lees’ Gentrification Studies class last semester. In the article “Gentrification study of Central Square finds independent spirit that’s being sorely tested,” Ward presents findings from Cambridge Local First’s inaugural State of Small Business report to demonstrate the rapid pace […]
John Stone remembered in the British Sociological Association’s newsletter
A moving tribute to John Stone has been published in the Spring issue of Network, the newsletter of the British Sociological Association. The obituary is written by friend and colleague Stephen Mennell, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at University College Dublin, who remembers John as “Quite a character!” The issue is available to read here on […]
Welcome Jane Pryma!
We are delighted to announce that Dr. Jane Pryma has joined our department. Professor Pryma is a sociologist of health and medicine who received her PhD from Northwestern and comes to us from the University of Connecticut. She is teaching a special topics course (SO 208) on Gender & Health this semester. Welcome to BU […]