Professor Emerita Adelaide Cromwell Passes Away at 99 years old

Adelaide Cromwell, Professor Emerita of Sociology who founded both the African Studies Center and the African American Studies program, passed away on June 8th, 2019. Professor Cromwell was 99 years old, just 5 months shy of her 100th birthday. More can be read of Professor Cromwell’s inspiring life and scholarship in BU Today, as well […]

Associate Dean, Professor Nazli Kibria named recipient of 2019 Founder’s Award for Scholarship & Service

Congratulations to Nazli Kibria, who was named recipient of the  2019 Founder’s Award for Scholarship & Service, by the American Sociological Association’s section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities (SREM)! The award was established in 2007 with a donation from Professor Charles Smith (one of the original founders of the SREM section) to recognize career excellence […]

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Sociology Alumna Finishes PhD and Joins Rutgers Faculty

Sarah Tosh (BA, 2009, Sociology and Political Science) completed her doctorate in sociology this spring at CUNY Graduate Center and will begin her professional career as a tenure-track assistant professor in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice at Rutgers University-Camden in the fall of 2019.  Her dissertation concerns the processes of demonization of […]

Associate Professor Heather Schoenfeld wins Book Award

Heather Schoenfeld, Associate Professor of Sociology, was selected as a 2019 Award of Excellence winner by the Leadership in History awards committee for her book Building the Prison State: Race and the Politics of Mass Incarceration (2018, University of Chicago Press). The AASLH Leadership in History Awards is the nation’s most prestigious competition for recognition […]