PHD CANDIDATE FELDSCHER TO RECIEVE 2012 SAGE TEACHING INNOVATION & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AWARD
Courtney Feldscher is the recipient of a 2012 SAGE Teaching Innovations & Professional Development Award. This honor is awarded by the ASA Section on Teaching and Learning in Sociology to support promising graduate students and pre-tenure faculty. As a recipient, Courtney will participate in the ASA pre-conference workshop, The Art at the Heart of Learner-Centered […]
4TH ANNUAL MORRIS LECTURE THIS FRIDAY APRIL 13TH AT 5PM WITH ARLIE HOCHSCHILD
Please join us at 5PM this Friday, April 13th at the Photonics Center Colloquium room (9th floor) for the 4th Annual Morris Lecture in Sociology. The event is free and open to all who wish to join. There will be a reception after the event as well, to meet with the speaker and Sociology faculty […]
PROF NAZLI KIBRIA TO RECIEVE FULL PROFESSORSHIP SEPT 1ST
Professor Nazli Kibria will receive full professorship on September 1st,2012. You can read more about Professor Kibria and the 11 other professor’s who received this honor at the March 21st issue of BU today ”Professor Kibria teaches international migation, families, childhood, and modern South Asia. She is the author most recently of Muslims in Motion: […]
PROF BENJAMIN ADDS INSIGHT ON THE TRAGEDY OF SLAIN TEENAGER AT GOOD MAGAZINE ONLINE
Professor Ruha Benjamin comments on an article on the tragedy of the death of Florida teen Trayvon Martin. Follow a link to the article here: http://www.good.is/post/trayvon-martin-could-have-been-one-of-my-kids/
PROF. RUHA BENJAMIN WINS ACLS FELLOWSHIP
The American Council of Learned Societies awards a small number of highly-sought-after sabbatical fellowships each year. Congratulations to Professor Ruha Benjamin on this recognition of her important work. She will spend the 2012-13 academic year completing work on her book, People’s Science: Reconstituting Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier.
PHD CANDIDATE DIAZ-EDELMAN TO PRESENT RESEARCH AT HARVARD WORKSHOP
PHD Candidate Mia Diaz-Edelman will be presenting her research, ” Tales from the Table: Activist Etiquette in the Multicultural Immigrant Rights Movement” At the Harvard Sociology Migration and Immigrant Incorporation Workshop on February 28th, 2012. The workshop occurs bi-weekly and examines international migration and the incorporation of migrants into host societies.
PHD CANDIDATE MIA DIAZ-EDELMAN AWARDED 2012 ESS TRAVEL GRANT
Ph.D Candidate Mia Diaz-Edelman was recently awarded the Eastern Sociological Society’s Travel Grant to attend their 2012 Annual Meeting. She will be presenting her paper titled, ” Anchoring Narratives: Multicultural Collaboration in the Immigrant Rights Movement”.
PROF BROWN-SARACINO HIGHLIGHTED IN NETWORX.COM ARTICLE
Professor Japonica Brown-Saracino was recently hightlighted in the article, “10 Neighborhoods That Were Redefined by Gentrification” at Networx.com. Professor Brown-Saracino published a book in 2009 that dealt with the topic of the article. Her book is titled A Neighborhood That Never Changes: Gentrification, Social Preservation, and the Search for Authenticity (The Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries […]
PHD CANDIDATE COURTNEY FELDSCHER PUBLISHED IN 2012 EDITION OF CONDO MEDIA MAGAZINE
Ph.D. Candidate Courtney L. Feldscher’s dissertation research concerning intra-organizational conflict in homeowners’ associations was featured as a two-part series of articles in the January 2012 and February 2012 editions of Condo Media magazine. Condo Media magazine is the official publication of the New England Chapter of the Community Associations Institute.
BU AT THE EASTERN SOCIOLOGICAL SOCIETY
Boston University Sociology will be very visible at this year’s Eastern Sociological Society meetings, coming up Feb 23-26 in New York City. At least eight faculty members, 16 grad students, visiting scholars and post-docs, and two undergraduate sociology majors will be presenting their work in a total of 28 different sessions! For a complete […]