PROFESSOR JULIAN GO ELECTED TO ASA SECTION POST
Professor Go has been elected to chair the Comparative and Historical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association for 2011-12. ASA Sections are the mechanisms through which people in Sociology’s many areas of interest can promote communication, relationships, and intellectual progress. Professor Go’s leadership in this section is a significant honor granted by his closest […]
Alumnus Keith Roberts awarded 2010 ASA Award
Keith A. Roberts (Ph.D., 1976) has been awarded the 2010 ASA Award for Distinguished Contributions to Teaching. A professor of sociology at Hanover College, in Indiana, Roberts is only the third teaching honoree who has made a career in a small liberal arts college. He has published textbooks in the sociology of religion and introductory sociology. […]
NEW FACULTY APPOINTMENTS
We are proud to highlight several recent achievements: Professor Alya Guseva will serve on the American Sociological Association’s Council of Economic Sociology Section for the 2010-2013 term. Professor Nazli Kibria has been elected to the Executive Committee of the Eastern Sociological Society as well as the ASA’s Council on Nominations and Council of the Section […]
B.A. Alum Philip Kasinitz wins 2010 ASA Distinguished Scholarly Book Award
Philip Kasinitz (B.A., 1979) received the 2010 ASA Distinguished Scholarly Book Award for Inheriting the City: The Children of Immigrants Come of Age (written with Mary Waters, John Mollenkopf, and Jennifer Holdaway; Harvard University Press, 2008). Kasinitz is a professor of sociology at the Graduate Center and Hunter College of the CUNY and a former President of the […]
PROF. GUSEVA TO SERVE AS A COUNCIL MEMBER OF THE ASA’s ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY SECTION
Congratulations to Alya Guseva on her election to a three-year term on the Council of Economic Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association.
TWO BU ALUMS WIN MAJOR ASA AWARDS
Philip Kasinitz (B.A., 1979) will be awarded the 2010 ASA Award for the Distinguished Scholarly Book. A long-time student of international migration and a widely sought expert on New York immigrants, he is being honored for Inheriting the City: The Children of Immigrants Come of Age (written with Mary Waters, John Mollenkopf, and Jennifer Holdaway; […]
BU ALUMNUS LEONARD BROOM (1911-2009)
Leonard Broom, (BS, Phi Beta Kappa, 1933; AM 1934), passed away November 19, 2009, in Santa Barbara, California, at the age of 98. One of the first sociologists to join the faculty at UCLA, he served there from 1941 through 1959. During that period, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship, served as editor of the American […]
GRADUATE STUDENTS TO PUBLISH THEIR WORK
A paper by PhD student Itai Vardi has been accepted for publication in the peer-reviewed journal Food, Culture, and Society. The article is titled “Feeding Race: Eating Contests, The Black Body, and the Social Production of Group Boundaries Through Amusement in Turn of the Twentieth Century America” and will be published in the journal’s volume […]