Graduate Student Connor Fitzmaurice Publishes Book
Connor Fitzmaurice, a Sociology graduate student has published a book with Brian Gareau, Associate Professor of Sociology at Boston College, entitled Organic Futures. Organic Futures—published through Yale University Press–is an exploration of the lived experience of small-scale organic farmers in New England that unpacks how they balance their ideals with economic realities. Taking an ethnographic […]
Graduate Student Opportunity: Join the Fall 2016 Urban Inequalities Workshop
The workshop will approach the topic of urban inequalities from different disciplinary, methodological and theoretical angles and is open to doctoral students from across the university. During the 2016-2017 academic year the Urban Inequalities Workshop will meet two Fridays per month at the Initiative on Cities. Faculty members from different institutions will join twice over […]
Graduate Students Jake Watson and Sarah Hosman Receive Funding from the Initiative on Cities
Graduate Student Jake Watson and Sarah Hosman have each received funding from BU’s Initiative on Cities for their sociological research. Under the guidance of Professor Julian Go, Watson will examine refugee resettlement and urban development. Under the guidance of Professor Japonica Brown-Saracino, Hosman will examine the Allston neighborhood and urban change.
Professor Stone and Graduate Alumni Polly Rizova and Xiaoshuo Hou Publish Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism
The Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism is a five volume, 1.5 million word reference work to be published in December 2015 by Wiley-Blackwell. Consisting of hundreds of entries written by leading experts on the topics from all over the world, it also has many contributions from scholars drawn from both the faculty and advanced […]
Ph.D. Candidate Alexandre White Wins ‘Best Graduate Student Paper Award’ from ASA’s Global & Transnational Section
Congratulations to Ph.D. Candidate Alexandre (“Sasha”) White for co-winning the Best Graduate Student Paper Award from the Global & Transnational Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association. The award-winning paper, ““Global Risks, Divergent Pandemics: Contrasting Responses to Bubonic Plague and Smallpox in 1901 Cape Town”, based upon his Qualifying Essay for the PhD, and traces […]
Ph.D. Candidate Daryl Carr Remembered on WBUR
On June 21st, Ph.D. Candidate Daryl Carr was remembered in WBUR’s Remembrance Project, a series on Boston’s NPR News Station which focuses on memorializing “[o]rdinary people who have lived extraordinary lives.” WBUR’s Elissa Ely sat down with Daryl’s loved ones to speak about his life, including an early love of marine biology, his affinities towards languages and […]
Ph.D. Candidate Christina Jarymowycz Awarded Fulbright Fellowship to Study in Ukraine
Christina Jarymowycz, a third year Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, was awarded a Fulbright U.S. Student Program Fellowship to study in the Ukraine. Sponsored by the United States Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, the Fulbright Program provides funding for students, scholars, teachers, and professionals to undertake graduate study, advanced research, university teaching, […]
Ph.D. Candidate Emily Bryant Chosen as one of the 2015 Pardee Graduate Summer Fellows
Emily Bryant, a second year Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, was chosen as one of the 2015 Pardee Graduate Summer Fellows. Selected by the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, nine outstanding BU graduate students representing six departments across the university will spend ten weeks this summer at the Pardee House. […]
Ph.D. Candidate Taylor Cain Awarded Whitney M. Young, Jr. Fellowship
Taylor Cain, a third year Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, was awarded the Boston University Whitney M. Young, Jr. Fellowship in recognition of the outstanding contributions made by Whitney M. Young, Jr., particularly in the fields of social work, urban studies, and Afro-American Studies. Chosen on the basis of having displayed academic proficiency in a field […]
Ph.D. Candidate Rebecca Farber Awarded Two Fellowships
Ph.D. Candidate Rebecca Farber is the recent recipient of two exciting awards in support of her dissertation work! She has been awarded a Foreign Language and Area Studies fellowship from the University of Wisconsin Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute. Funded by the U.S. Department of Education and administered by the University of Wiconsin’s National Resource Centers, […]