Prof. Julian Go on Puerto Rico Debt Crisis in BU Today
Following a June announcement by governor of Puerto Rico that the commonwealth could not pay its $72 billion debts, the island’s Public Finance Corporation defaulted on most of its debt in August. With a 12.4% unemployment rate, a housing bust, drought, and a mass exodus tens of thousands of middle-class workers to the United States […]
Dr. Patricia Rieker Interviewed on Childhood Poverty
Professor Patricia Rieker was interviewed as an expert to chime in on the effects of poverty on young people as a part of WalletHub.com’s recent study, “2015’s Best and Worst States for Underprivileged Children.” Described as a comparison of “the welfare of young people within the 50 states and the District of Columbia to underscore the […]
Ph.D. Candidate Alexandre White Wins ‘Best Graduate Student Paper Award’ from ASA’s Global & Transnational Section
Congratulations to Ph.D. Candidate Alexandre (“Sasha”) White for co-winning the Best Graduate Student Paper Award from the Global & Transnational Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association. The award-winning paper, ““Global Risks, Divergent Pandemics: Contrasting Responses to Bubonic Plague and Smallpox in 1901 Cape Town”, based upon his Qualifying Essay for the PhD, and traces […]
Ph.D. Candidate Daryl Carr Remembered on WBUR
On June 21st, Ph.D. Candidate Daryl Carr was remembered in WBUR’s Remembrance Project, a series on Boston’s NPR News Station which focuses on memorializing “[o]rdinary people who have lived extraordinary lives.” WBUR’s Elissa Ely sat down with Daryl’s loved ones to speak about his life, including an early love of marine biology, his affinities towards languages and […]
Prof. Catherine Connell on Protecting LGBT Americans from Employment Discrimination
In a post on the University of California Press Blog, Professor Catherine Connell writes about the “legal rights lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Americans are still struggling to secure, including the right to employment.” Citing four decades of failed attempts at passing federal protections, Connell discusses the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), a bill expected to be […]
Ph.D. Candidate Christina Jarymowycz Awarded Fulbright Fellowship to Study in Ukraine
Christina Jarymowycz, a third year Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, was awarded a Fulbright U.S. Student Program Fellowship to study in the Ukraine. Sponsored by the United States Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, the Fulbright Program provides funding for students, scholars, teachers, and professionals to undertake graduate study, advanced research, university teaching, […]
Ph.D. Candidate Emily Bryant Chosen as one of the 2015 Pardee Graduate Summer Fellows
Emily Bryant, a second year Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, was chosen as one of the 2015 Pardee Graduate Summer Fellows. Selected by the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, nine outstanding BU graduate students representing six departments across the university will spend ten weeks this summer at the Pardee House. […]
Ph.D. Candidate Taylor Cain Awarded Whitney M. Young, Jr. Fellowship
Taylor Cain, a third year Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, was awarded the Boston University Whitney M. Young, Jr. Fellowship in recognition of the outstanding contributions made by Whitney M. Young, Jr., particularly in the fields of social work, urban studies, and Afro-American Studies. Chosen on the basis of having displayed academic proficiency in a field […]
Sociology Welcomes New Faculty Neha Gondal and Saida Grundy
The Department of Sociology is committed to understanding and challenging institutionalized inequalities. We welcome critical reflection and conversations on race. It is in this spirit that we welcome our new colleagues Neha Gondal and Saida Grundy, who join the faculty this Fall. Dr. Neha Gondal received her PhD from Rutgers University in 2013 following which […]
Ph.D. Candidate Rebecca Farber Awarded Two Fellowships
Ph.D. Candidate Rebecca Farber is the recent recipient of two exciting awards in support of her dissertation work! She has been awarded a Foreign Language and Area Studies fellowship from the University of Wisconsin Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute. Funded by the U.S. Department of Education and administered by the University of Wiconsin’s National Resource Centers, […]