PROF.GO AWARDED GRANT FROM THE BU-WARWICK STRATEGIC FUND INITIATIVE
Professor Julian Go has been awarded a grant from the BU-Warwick Strategic Fund Initiative for an interdisciplinary project “Postcolonial Cosmopolitanism” that will include participants from BU and Warwick UK in Sociology, History, Literature, and Classical studies.
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. […]
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ASHLEY MEARS AWARDED JUNIOR FELLOWSHIP
Assistant Professor Ashley Mears has been awarded the distinguished Junior Fellowship from the Humanities Foundation for the academic year 2011/2012. She will receive leave for one semester to devote herself to her research.
PROF. SMITH-DOERR ELECTED TO ADVISORY BOARD FOR THE NEW NATIONAL CENTER FOR ETHICS IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
Congratulations to Professor Laurel Smith-Doerr who recently agreed to serve on the agreed to serve on the Advisory Board for the new National Center for Ethics in Science and Engineering funded by NSF. It will be housed at the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, with a PI of the $5million grant. Further information can be found […]
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 […]
COURTNEY FELDSCHER WINS GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP
Ph.D. candidate Courtney Feldscher is this year’s recipient of the Byron Hanke Fellowship from the Foundation for Community Association Research. The fellowship was awarded to support her dissertation research on conflict in homeowners’ associations. Congratulations, Courtney!
ECKSTEIN WINS AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION AWARD
Professor Susan Eckstein’s book The Immigrant Divide: How Cuban Americans Changed the U.S. and their Homeland (New York: Routledge) is winner of the 2010 American Political Science Association Section on Race, Ethnicity, and Politics (REP) award for Best 2009 Book on Race, Ethnicity, Political Participation and Public Opinion.
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; […]
KATELYNN BISHOP WINS CAS AWARD FOR WRITING EXCELLENCE IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
Senior Katelynn Bishop has won this year’s Michael A. Sassano III and Christopher M. Sassano Award for Writing Excellence in the Social Sciences. The announcement of the award by Professor Joseph Bizup, Director of the CAS Writing Program, noted that ‘Judges of the competition were unanimous in their praise of your writing and research.’ Katelynn […]
GRADUATE STUDENT KIRI GURD WINS PARDEE SUMMER FELLOWSHIP
Congratulations to Kiri Gurd on this opportunity for intensive interdisciplinary research and writing along with others who are exploring topics related to the work of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University. Returning to Boston from her year of work with the International Center for Transitional Justice, […]