Alumna Cynthia Feliciano (CAS 1995) Appointed a Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholar
Cynthia Feliciano (BA Sociology and Political Science, 1995), Associate Professor of Sociology and Chicano/Latino Studies at the University of California, Irvine, has been appointed a Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholar for 2016-17. With her UCI colleague Rubén Rumbaut, Cynthia will work on a book project that investigates the socioeconomic, cultural, and political incorporation of the […]
Dr. Joanna Ng (CAS ’06, MED’10) to Speak at 2016 Commencement Ceremony
Keeping with recent tradition, the Department of Sociology is pleased to announce that it will once again welcome an alumna from ten years’ past as our commencement speaker. Dr. Joanna Ng (CAS ’06, MED ’10) will return to Boston University to address the 2016 graduating seniors and their families. Joanna Ng graduated magna cum laude […]
Sociology Seminar Series – Feb 19 – Adia Harvey Wingfield
Please join us on Friday, February 19th, as we welcome Professor Adia Harvey Wingfield of the Washington University in St. Louis as our first Spring 2016 Seminar Series speaker. Professor Wingfield will present: “Professional Work in a Postracial Era: Black Americans’ Everyday Racial Realities in the Health Care Industry.” Friday, February 19th at 12PM in SOC Room 241 100 Cummington Mall, Boston MA 02215 […]
Professor Emerita Brigitte Berger (1928 – 2015)
On May 28th 2015 Professor Emerita Brigitte Berger passed away. In a career that spanned almost half a century, Brigitte Berger wrote many influential books on the sociology of family, knowledge and social change. She was on the faculties of the Hunter College of the City of New York, Long Island University, Wellesley College and […]
Seminar Series – Susan Bell of Drexel University
Please join us on December 4th, 2015, as we welcome Professor Susan Bell of Drexel University as our final Fall 2015 Seminar Series speaker. Professor Bell will present “Interpreting for Immigrants in Hospital Clinics: An Ethnography of Outpatient Care in Maine.” December 4th, 2015 SOC Room 241 – 12PM 100 Cummington Mall, Boston MA 02215 Free and Open […]
Emeritus Professor Mark G. Field (1923 – 2015)
It is with great sadness that we mourn the passing of Emeritus Professor Mark G. Field, on Wednesday, October 21, 2015. He was 92 years old. Born in 1923 in Switzerland to stateless Russian immigrants who had fled their home city of Odessa, Mark Field arrived with his family in the United States in 1940. […]
Professor Joseph Harris named a 2015-16 Pardee Faculty Research Fellow
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future has named Professor Joseph Harris a 2015-16 Faculty Research Fellow. “With seed funding from the Pardee Center, the 10 Faculty Research Fellows will launch two- or three-year interdisciplinary research projects on topics ranging from the implications of China’s investments in other developing countries to […]
Seminar Series – Ann Morning of New York University
Please join us on October 30th, 2015, as we welcome Professor Ann Morning of New York University to our Fall 2015 Seminar Series. Professor Morning will present “Through the Lens of Race: Concepts of Difference in Italy and the U.S.” October 30th, 2015 SOC Room 241 – 12:30PM 100 Cummington Mall, Boston MA 02215 Free and Open to the Public! […]
Seminar Series – Rashawn Ray of the University of Maryland
Please join us on October 23rd, 2015, as we welcome Professor Rashawn Ray of the University of Maryland to our Fall 2015 Seminar Series. Professor Ray will present “#BlackLivesMatter: The Evolution of a Social Media Identity” October 23rd, 2015 SOC Room 241 – 12PM 100 Cummington Mall, Boston MA 02215 Free and Open to the Public! Biography: Rashawn Ray […]
Prof. Neha Gondal Named 2015 Hariri Institute Junior Faculty Fellow
Professor Neha Gondal has been named a 2015 Hariri Instiute Junior Faculty Fellow. Recognizing “outstanding junior faculty at Boston University working in diverse areas of computing and the computational sciences,” the Hariri Institute Fellows Program “helps connect like-minded researchers at BU and beyond, […] providing a focal point for supporting broader collaborative research.” In an […]