Professor Jessica Simes wins NSF Grant
Sociology Professor Jessica Simes has won a major grant from the National Science Foundation’s Sociology program! The grant will fund her project “Collaborative Research: The Pennsylvania Solitary Confinement Study.” This path-breaking and timely project will examine conditions of penal confinement in the United States, and its effects on health and well-being, labor force participation after […]
Jake Watson wins ASA Best Graduate Student Paper Award
Graduate student Jake Watson has won the award for Best Graduate Student Paper from the Global and Transnational Sociology Section of the ASA. The paper, “Family Ideation, Immigration, and the Racial State” is based upon Jake’s Qualifying paper that he wrote here at BU and was subsequently published in Ethnic and Racial Studies. Congratulations Jake!
Graduate Student Sasha White Defends PhD Thesis
Graduate student Alexandre (“Sasha”) White has successfully defended his doctoral dissertation, titled: Epidemic Orientalism: Social Construction And The Global Management Of Infectious Disease. Sasha will soon begin a Provost’s Postdoctoral fellowship in the Johns Hopkins University sociology department. Congratulations, Sasha!
Professor Emily Barman elected ASA Economics Section Chair
Sociology Professor and Associate Dean Emily Barman has been elected chair of the Economic Sociology section of the ASA for 2018-2019. Congratulations, Emily!
Graduate Student David Levy Defends Thesis
This spring 2018, graduate student David Levy successfully defended his doctoral thesis: “The Impulse to Orthodoxy: Why Illberal Democracies Treat Religious Pluralism as a Threat.” Congratulations, David!
Mustapha Hashim Kurfi Defends Dissertation
In spring 2018, graduate student Mustapha Hashim Kurfi successfully defended his doctoral thesis: “Religion, Gender and Civil Society: The Role of Muslim Women’s Association in the Evolution of Nigerian Society.” Mustapha will return to Bayero University, Kano-Nigeria to continue teaching and research. Congratulations, Mustapha!
Graduate Student Meghan Tinsley Offered Prestigious Fellowship
Meghan Tinsley, who completed her PhD this spring, was offered the position of Presidential Fellow in Inequalities and Ethnicity at the University of Manchester, UK. Dr. Tinsley’s dissertation is titled We Will Re-Member Them: Muslims in the British and French World War I Centenary. The position is housed in the Department of Sociology, and is a […]
Sociology Alumnus to become Assistant Professor at Purdue
David McElhattan (BA, 2010, Sociology and Philosophy) will join the Department of Sociology at Purdue University as an assistant professor in the fall of 2018. David completed his doctoral studies at Northwestern University. He was co-winner of the College Prize for Excellence in Sociology at his 2010 graduation. Congratulations, David!
Max Robidoux will speak at 2018 Sociology Commencement
Keeping with tradition, the Department of Sociology has invited an alumna/us to speak at the department convocation. In 2018, the alumna/us guest speaker will be Maxwell Robidoux (CAS ’17). Maxwell Robidoux graduated magna cum laude from Boston University in May of 2017 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology and Psychology. He subsequently became a candidate for […]
Graduate Student Brittany Frederick named Pardee Center Summer Fellow
Brittany Frederick, a second year PhD student in Sociology, has won a Pardee Center Summer Fellowship. She will compare international race discourse surrounding Black Lives Matter and analyze the diffusion of narratives and experiences that have motivated the global response to the movement. The Graduate Summer Fellows will spend 10 weeks at the Pardee House […]