Japonica Brown-Saracino & Landon Lauder quoted in new Boston.com article
An article published today on Boston.com explores the question “When can you say you’re ‘from Boston’?” It goes on to examine why the question, “So, where are you from?” can surprisingly be difficult to answer even for people called Boston home for many years. Japonica Brown-Saracino is quoted in the article, explaining: “As neighborhoods gentrify, […]
Sociology department hike in the Blue Hills
On Sunday November 10th, we revived the Sociology department hike at Blue Hills, a beautiful reservation just outside the city. A fun time was had by all!
Ana Villarreal’s book reviewed in ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America
Ana Villarreal’s book, The Two Faces of Fear: Violence and Inequality in the Mexican Metropolis (Oxford, 2024), was recently reviewed in ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America. In the review, sociologist and historian Gema Kloppe-Santamaría calls The Two Faces of Fear, “A powerful, perceptive, and conceptually persuasive account on the impact of fear in people’s everyday […]
David Swartz publishes new book and articles on “The Academic Trumpists”
Visiting researcher, and former Sociology professor, David Swartz has published a new book on the impact of Trumpism on the conservative faculty in the American academy. We will be hosting a book launch and panel discussion of The Academic Trumpists: Radicals Against Liberal Diversity (Routledge, 2024) on Wednesday October 30th from 4:00 to 6:00 pm at […]
Alya Guseva and Ya-Ching Huang publish article in Journal of Cultural Economy
Alya Guseva and Ya-Ching Huang have published a new article in the Journal of Cultural Economy. “The Moral Economy of Severe Scarcity: How Considerations of Deservingness Shape Cloth Mask Distribution Practices in the Midst of a Global Health Crisis” is available to read in full here.
Leping Wang co-authors paper in Social Science Research
Sociology PhD candidate Leping Wang recently co-authored a paper titled “Selection into higher education and subsequent religious decline in a United States cohort” in Social Science Research. In this paper, they used longitudinal data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97) to investigate: 1) the relationship between childhood religious environment and the likelihood […]
Selma Hedlund publishes new op-ed in The Conversation
Sociology PhD alum, and current Postdoctoral Associate at Center of Forced Displacement, Selma Hedlund has published an op-ed this week for The Conversation. In “America is increasingly dependent on foreign doctors − but their path to immigration is getting harder”, Hedlund describes how “for immigrant doctors, the path to permanent residency is fleeting and far […]
Nazli Kibria publishes op-ed in The Daily Star (Bangladesh)
On Monday, our interim department chair Nazli Kibria published an op-ed in The Daily Star, the leading English language daily paper in Bangladesh. In “The politics of betrayal and trauma,” she writes on the country’s recent upheaval: “Bangladesh is now at a political crossroads. The country, I believe, can only heal from the trauma of […]
BU Sociology at ASA 2024
119th Annual Meeting: Intersectional Solidarities August 9-13, 2024 | Montreal, Quebec | #ASA2024 The 119th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA) starts this week! This year’s ASA will be in Montreal from August 9th to the 13th. It provides the opportunity for professionals involved in the scientific study of society to share knowledge […]
Andrew Ward & Carlos Campos Jr. publish gentrification research in Cambridge Day
In a recent follow up to their April op-ed about Central Square gentrification in Cambridge Day, BU Sociology graduate students Andrew Ward and Carlos Campos Jr. argue “In studying business gentrification, of course size matters.” Their research was done in partnership with Cambridge Local First through the MetroBridge program at the Initiative on Cities.