PROF. RUHA BENJAMIN FEATURED AT UNIVERSITY MLK CELEBRATION
Speaking in Metcalf Hall, with more than a thousand people in attendance on Monday, Prof. Benjamin brought the audience to its feet as she asked what “barking dogs and fire hoses” need to be silenced in our own brains to make it possible to pursue the kind of society Dr. King imagined. The University’s annual […]
CONTINUED MEDIA COVERAGE OF PROF. ASHLEY MEARS’ WORK
The Boston Globe Sunday magazine featured a multi-page account of Professor Ashley Mears’ study of the modeling industry. Also, don’t miss BU Today’s feature article: “High Heeled Scholarship”, January 24th 2012.
PROF. BENJAMIN CO-HOSTS ‘EDUCATION UNDER FIRE’ FILM SCREENING AND DISCUSSION ON BU’S HISTORY OF HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISM
On Nov.15th Prof. Ruha Benjamin addressed over 450 students about BU’s history of human rights activism as part of the “Education Under Fire” film screening and panel discussion with human rights activist and actor Rainn Wilson, Amnesty International’s Northeast Regional Director, Josh Rubenstein, film director Jeff Kaufman, and adjunct professor of social work, Mojdeh Rohani. […]
PROF. RUHA BENJAMIN INVITED SPEAKER AT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN AMSTERDAM
Professor Ruha Benjamin has been invited to speak at the International Conference on Contemporary Constructions of Race/Whiteness in a Comparative Perspective on Dec.19th, 2011 at the University of Amsterdam. Registration for this event is now closed.
PH.D CANDIDATE COURTNEY FELDSCHER TO GIVE KEY NOTE SPEECH AT CAI-NE
Ph.D. Candidate Courtney L. Feldscher will serve as the keynote speaker at the annual meeting of the New England Chapter of the Community Associations Institute (CAI-NE) this weekend in Boston, MA. Courtney is the 2010/2011 recipient of the Foundation for Community Association Research’s Byron Hanke Fellowship.
SLATE.COM DUBS PROF. MEARS ‘NEXT TOP SOCIOLOGIST’
Responding to the release of Prof. Ashley Mears’ new book, “Pricing Beauty: The Making of a Fashion Model”, Slate.com (http://www.slate.com/id/2303242/) places her work in the long line of important sociological work based on researchers “embedding” themselves in an industry. Her participant observation and interviewing in the modeling industry provides dozens of important insights.
“PRICING BEAUTY: THE MAKING OF A FASHION MODEL.” BY PROFESSOR ASHLEY MEARS
Prof. Mears’ pathbreaking study of the fashion modeling industry has just been published by University of California Press. The book builds on Mears’ ethnographic observations and interviews to examine the economics and politics, as well as the racial and gender boundaries of the glamour industry.
Alumna Sarah Tosh Awarded Fellowship to Study at CUNY Graduate Center
Sarah Tosh (BA, 09) will begin her doctoral studies in sociology this fall (2011) at the CUNY Graduate Center, which has awarded her a fellowship to support her studies
PETER BERGER ON THE MAKING OF A SOCIOLOGIST
BU Today’s interview with Emeritus Professor Peter Berger features highlights from his career in Sociology and forthcoming memoir Adventures of an Accidental Sociologist: How to Explain the World Without Becoming a Bore (Prometheus, 2011).
BU SOCIOLOGISTS WIN ASA ELECTION
Prof. Laurel Smith-Doerr has been elected as a Member-at-Large on the national council of the American Sociological Association (ASA), and Prof. Cati Connell will serve on the Sex and Gender Section’s Sally Hacker Award Committee. Already announced is Prof. Julian Go’s election to chair the Comparative and Historical Sociology Section of ASA. Congratulations to all […]