Leping Wang named 2022-2023 Outstanding Teaching Fellow
Congratulations to 3rd year PhD student Leping Wang who has been named as the Sociology Department’s Outstanding Teaching Fellow for the 2022-2023 academic year, an award given by the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. Leping has demonstrated the greatest skill, enthusiasm and dedication in her role as a Teaching Fellow this academic year, and […]
Alum Jon Shaffer to join University of Vermont as Assistant Professor
2022 graduate Jon Shaffer will be joining the University of Vermont’s department of Sociology this Fall as an assistant professor. Congratulations to Jon on on this wonderful accomplishment! We would also like to extend congratulations and thanks to Joe Harris, who supervised Jon’s dissertation, as well as to the rest of his committee: Alya Guseva, […]
Kazi Md Mukitul Islam publishes op-ed in in Bangladesh’s leading English newspaper
Phd candidate Kazi Md Mukitul Islam’s published an op-ed this week entitled “Antimicrobial resistance: The overlooked pandemic” in The Daily Star. It examines a recent global study that shows a 46 percent increase in antibiotic consumption between 2000 and 2018 and how South Asia is among the regions where antibiotic resistance continues unabated for all […]
Ben Kampler accepts tenure track position at Kalamazoo College
PhD candidate Ben Kampler has accepted an offer to become a tenure track assistant professor of sociology at Kalamazoo College in Fall 2023. His dissertation examines negative reactions to PrEP (a once-a-day HIV prevention pill regimen) among some gay men. Congrats Ben!
PhD candidate Bahar Aldanmaz announced as Pardee Center 2022 Graduate Summer Fellow
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future has announced its 2022 Graduate Summer Fellows. These eight outstanding Boston University graduate students represent five different schools or colleges and eight different academic departments. This includes BU Sociology’s Bahar Aldanmaz. With a transnational feminist lens, Bahar will explore how distinct menstruation actors’ […]
PhD Candidate Heather Mooney receives the 2022 Susan K. Jackson Award
PhD candidate Heather Mooney is the 2022 graduate student recipient of the Susan K. Jackson Award, which honors those people who create and nurture community in the BU College of Arts & Sciences. Congratulations Heather!
Graduate Students members of editorial team for ASA Economic Sociology Section’s newsletter
Congratulations to BU Sociology graduate students Gökhan Mülayim, Ladin Bayurgil, Meghann Lucy, Ya-Ching Huang, and Elif Birced, who are editors of the ASA Economic Sociology Section’s newsletter ‘Accounts’ editorial team. Kudos to the team for continuing BU Sociology’s long history of leading the Economic Sociology section and its activities!
Erick Berrelleza accepts Assistant Professor position
Congratulations to Erick Berrelleza, a PhD candidate, who has accepted a tenure-track assistant professor position in sociology at Santa Clara University beginning September 2021. Erick’s primary teaching will be in Urban Sociology, with possibilities for collaboration with their School of Theology located in Berkeley. Good luck, Erick!
Bahar Aldanmaz published in Think Global Health
Graduate student Bahar Aldanmaz published an essay on ‘period poverty’ in Think Global Health. https://www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/overlooked-need-global-emergencies?fbclid=IwAR0ACDlL1rb1IUQWrpipl3KWzvlrJR-4KotKAOK7bNFOxKXcgvIuEHAQMDc.
Graduate Student Meghann Lucy featured in BU Today
Meghann Lucy (GRS’24), a PhD student in sociology, worked remotely as a fellow for the City of Boston Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics, a civic research and design team tasked with thinking up and testing potential policies designed to address some of the city’s unique challenges.