AMY MOFF HUDEC AT THINKING GENDER CONFERENCE
On February 11, 2011, graduate student Amy Moff Hudec, along with colleague Courtney Irby of Loyal University Chicago, presented their paper, “Practicing Purity Under Pressure: Chastity Maintenance Among Unmarried Latter-day Saint and Evangelical Women” at the Thinking Gender conference at UCLA. Hudec is currently in Utah working on her dissertation research.
Alum Sonali Jain Joins Duke University as Post-Doctoral Fellow
Sonali Jain (PhD 2010) is a post-doctoral fellow at Duke University’s Social Sciences Research Institute.
COURTNEY FELDSCHER WINS GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP
Ph.D. candidate Courtney Feldscher is this year’s recipient of the Byron Hanke Fellowship from the Foundation for Community Association Research. The fellowship was awarded to support her dissertation research on conflict in homeowners’ associations. Congratulations, Courtney!
SIX NEW GRADUATE STUDENTS TO ARRIVE IN FALL
The Department looks forward to welcoming six up and coming sociologists in September. Elyas Bakhtiari, Atanas Grozdev, Sarah Hosman, Meaghan Stiman and Justin Stoll will begin the Ph.D. Program in fall 2010. Oskar Milik will join the M.A. program. More on the interests, background and scholarship of these additions to follow on the graduate student […]
VARDI TO PUBLISH IN THE JOURNAL OF SOCIAL HISTORY
Ph.D. Candidate Itai Vardi’s paper “Auto Thrill Shows and Destruction Derbies, 1922-1965: Establishing the Cultural Logic of the Deliberate Car Crash in America” was accepted for publication in The Journal of Social History. Congratulations Itai!
GRAD STUDENT ST. HILAIRE LEADS BUPD TO STATE CERTIFICATION
When Jack St. Hilaire isn’t working on his critical essays for his PhD program in Sociology, his ‘day job’ calls on him to help keep the BU campus safe. As a Sergeant in the BU Police Department, St. Hilaire often gets to use his sociological ‘eyes.’ Most recently, his interest in organizational sociology has paid […]
FACULTY AND GRADUATE STUDENT PRESENTATIONS: A TRAVEL LOG
With the academic year coming to a close, the time has come to look back on the places to which BU sociologists have taken their knowledge about the social world. From Annandale-on-Hudson, NY to Cairo, Egypt, faculty and graduate student have given talks in fifteen states, including our nation’s capital, and twelve countries internationally. Speaking […]
GRADUATE STUDENT KIRI GURD WINS PARDEE SUMMER FELLOWSHIP
Congratulations to Kiri Gurd on this opportunity for intensive interdisciplinary research and writing along with others who are exploring topics related to the work of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University. Returning to Boston from her year of work with the International Center for Transitional Justice, […]
Alumna Thanh-Nghi Nguyen Presents Paper at Harvard Migration and Immigration Workshop
Thanh-Nghi Nguyen (PhD 2009) is now living in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly known as Saigon) and serves as the Chair of the Sociology Department at the Open University. Tani co-authored with Prof. Eckstein on a paper, “The Making and Transnationalization of an Ethnic Niche: Vietnamese Manicurists,” presented at Harvard Migration and Immigration Workshop, February 2010.
Alumna Frances Chaput Waksler to Announces Forthcoming Book
Frances Chaput Waksler (PhD, 1973) announces her forthcoming book, The New Orleans Sniper: A Phenomenological Case Study of Constituting the Other (University Press of America, 2010). Frances is phenomenological sociologist and Professor Emerita from Wheelock College. She dedicates the book to Sociology Department Professors Emeriti George Psathas, Julius Roth, and John Mogey, as well as Erazim Kohak of the philosophy […]