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 […]
Loretta Lees’ Gentrification Studies seminar featured in BU Today
“Housing and businesses are correlated…the hyper-gentrification that Boston has been experiencing overall, plus the housing crisis off the back of it—that has an impact on small businesses, too and both have to be seen as part of the pressures of a big city.” -Loretta Lees A new seminar on the topic of gentrification taught by […]
Meet Visiting Assistant Professor Saleena Saleem
Welcome Saleena Saleem! Our new visiting assistant professor joined our faculty at the beginning of the Fall semester. Saleena’s research interests lie at the intersection of the sociology and politics of race and ethnicity, religion, and gender, with a regional emphasis on Asia. She was just featured on the College of Arts and Sciences website. […]
BU Sociology at ASA 2023
118th Annual Meeting: The Educative Power of Sociology August 17-21, 2023 | Philadelphia, PA | #ASA2023 The 118th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA) starts this week! This year’s ASA will be in Philadelphia from August 17th to the 21st. It provides the opportunity for professionals involved in the scientific study of society to share […]
Ana Villarreal’s article wins ASA 2023 Outstanding Contribution Award
Ana Villarreal’s article “The Logistics of Fear: Violence and the Stratifying Power of Emotion” published in Emotions & Society last year won the ASA 2023 Outstanding Contribution Award from the Sociology of Emotions Section. The award is given for distinguished scholarship in the form of an article that makes a significant empirical or theoretical contribution […]