PHD CANDIDATE BAKHTIARI AWARDED NSF FELLOWSHIP
Sociology Ph.D Candidate Elyas Bakhtiari was awarded one of three graduate student fellowships under the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellows Program. These prestigious national fellowships provide generous support for three years of study, available for fellows to use at any point in the next five years. Elyas works closely with Sigrun Olafsdottir, Assistant […]
PHD CANDIDATE FELDSCHER TO RECIEVE 2012 SAGE TEACHING INNOVATION & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AWARD
Courtney Feldscher is the recipient of a 2012 SAGE Teaching Innovations & Professional Development Award. This honor is awarded by the ASA Section on Teaching and Learning in Sociology to support promising graduate students and pre-tenure faculty. As a recipient, Courtney will participate in the ASA pre-conference workshop, The Art at the Heart of Learner-Centered […]
PHD CANDIDATE DIAZ-EDELMAN TO PRESENT RESEARCH AT HARVARD WORKSHOP
PHD Candidate Mia Diaz-Edelman will be presenting her research, ” Tales from the Table: Activist Etiquette in the Multicultural Immigrant Rights Movement” At the Harvard Sociology Migration and Immigrant Incorporation Workshop on February 28th, 2012. The workshop occurs bi-weekly and examines international migration and the incorporation of migrants into host societies.
PHD CANDIDATE MIA DIAZ-EDELMAN AWARDED 2012 ESS TRAVEL GRANT
Ph.D Candidate Mia Diaz-Edelman was recently awarded the Eastern Sociological Society’s Travel Grant to attend their 2012 Annual Meeting. She will be presenting her paper titled, ” Anchoring Narratives: Multicultural Collaboration in the Immigrant Rights Movement”.
PHD CANDIDATE COURTNEY FELDSCHER PUBLISHED IN 2012 EDITION OF CONDO MEDIA MAGAZINE
Ph.D. Candidate Courtney L. Feldscher’s dissertation research concerning intra-organizational conflict in homeowners’ associations was featured as a two-part series of articles in the January 2012 and February 2012 editions of Condo Media magazine. Condo Media magazine is the official publication of the New England Chapter of the Community Associations Institute.
PH.D CANDIDATE COURTNEY FELDSCHER TO GIVE KEY NOTE SPEECH AT CAI-NE
Ph.D. Candidate Courtney L. Feldscher will serve as the keynote speaker at the annual meeting of the New England Chapter of the Community Associations Institute (CAI-NE) this weekend in Boston, MA. Courtney is the 2010/2011 recipient of the Foundation for Community Association Research’s Byron Hanke Fellowship.
SOCIOLOGY PH.D. STUDENT DON GILLIS FEATURED IN ‘BU TODAY’
Sociology PhD Candidate Don Gillis is featured in today’s BU Today article, ‘One Class, One Day: Lessons from The Wire”. Gillis, who is currently an adjunct teacher at the MET City Planning and Urban Affairs program, takes his MET UA510: The City in the Media: The Sociology of HBO’s The Wire class to exciting levels […]
PH.D. CANDIDATE COURTNEY FELDSCHER TO PRESENT AT COMMUNITY ASSOC. INSTITUTE IN FLORIDA
Ph.D. Candidate Courtney L. Feldscher is presenting her paper, “Managing Conflict: The Who, What, Where, When, and Why”, at the annual meeting of the Community Associations Institute in Boca Raton, Florida. Courtney is the 2010/2011 recipient of the Foundation for Community Association Research’s Byron Hanke Fellowship.
PH.D. CANDIDATE MEAGHAN STIMAN AWARDED 2010-2011 OUTSTANDING TEACHING FELLOW
Graduate student Meghan Stiman has been selected as the Outstanding Teaching Fellow in Sociology for 2010-2011. Faculty chose Meaghan for her strong teaching values and performance. Meaghan will be awarded on May 6th at a reception held at the College of Arts and Sciences, along with other CAS departmental award recipients.
Alumnus Roman Williams Joins Institute for International and Intercultural Studies at Union University
Roman R. Williams (PhD 2010) is an Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Institute for International and Intercultural Studies at Union University in Jackson, Tennessee.