Seminar Series – Julian Go of Boston University
Please join us on October 9th, 2015, as we welcome our own Professor Julian Go to kick off our Fall 2015 Seminar Series. Professor Go will present “Postcolonial Thought and Social Theory.” October 9th, 2015 SOC Room 241 – 12PM 100 Cummington Mall, Boston MA 02215 Free and Open to the Public! Biography: Julian Go is […]
Professor Stone and Graduate Alumni Polly Rizova and Xiaoshuo Hou Publish Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism
The Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism is a five volume, 1.5 million word reference work to be published in December 2015 by Wiley-Blackwell. Consisting of hundreds of entries written by leading experts on the topics from all over the world, it also has many contributions from scholars drawn from both the faculty and advanced […]
Prof. Julian Go on Puerto Rico Debt Crisis in BU Today
Following a June announcement by governor of Puerto Rico that the commonwealth could not pay its $72 billion debts, the island’s Public Finance Corporation defaulted on most of its debt in August. With a 12.4% unemployment rate, a housing bust, drought, and a mass exodus tens of thousands of middle-class workers to the United States […]
Dr. Patricia Rieker Interviewed on Childhood Poverty
Professor Patricia Rieker was interviewed as an expert to chime in on the effects of poverty on young people as a part of WalletHub.com’s recent study, “2015’s Best and Worst States for Underprivileged Children.” Described as a comparison of “the welfare of young people within the 50 states and the District of Columbia to underscore the […]
Prof. Catherine Connell on Protecting LGBT Americans from Employment Discrimination
In a post on the University of California Press Blog, Professor Catherine Connell writes about the “legal rights lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Americans are still struggling to secure, including the right to employment.” Citing four decades of failed attempts at passing federal protections, Connell discusses the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), a bill expected to be […]
Sociology Welcomes New Faculty Neha Gondal and Saida Grundy
The Department of Sociology is committed to understanding and challenging institutionalized inequalities. We welcome critical reflection and conversations on race. It is in this spirit that we welcome our new colleagues Neha Gondal and Saida Grundy, who join the faculty this Fall. Dr. Neha Gondal received her PhD from Rutgers University in 2013 following which […]
Nicole Aschoff Publishes “The New Prophets of Capital”
“Mythmaking is as central to sustaining our economy as proft-making, particularly as severe environmental degradation, breathtaking inequality, and increasing alienation among youth push capitalism against its own contradictions.” In her newly published book, The New Prophets of Capital, Adjunct Professor Nicole Aschoff discusses the “new generation of wealthy mythmakers, masquerading as progressive thinkers,” who have emerged […]
Professor Catherine Connell Receives Award for Excellence in Teaching
Professor Catherine Connell has been selected the recipient of the Frank and Lynne Wisneski Award for Excellence in Teaching. According to the College of Arts and Sciences website, this honor is “[A]warded annually to CAS faculty who exemplify deep and broad commitment, skill, effectiveness, impact, and leadership in teaching,” and recognizes not just excellence inside scheduled classes, but “the […]
Professor Susan Eckstein Awarded 2015 Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
Susan Eckstein, a Professor of Sociology and International Relations in the Pardee School of Global Studies, has been awarded a 2015 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship for her research on Cuban immigration exceptionalism. In its ninety-first competition, the Guggenheim Fellowship awarded 173 Fellowships to 175 scholars, chosen from over 3,100 applicants “on the basis of […]
Professor Connell and “School’s Out” Featured in Interview
Professor Catherine Connell’s “School’s Out: Gay and Lesbian Teachers in the Classroom” was featured in an article on DatingAdvice.com on February 24th. In an interview with Hayley Matthews, Professor Connell describes her research on the pressures that gay and lesbian public school teachers face inside and outside of the classroom. “On the one hand, gay and […]