Associate Dean, Professor Nazli Kibria named recipient of 2019 Founder’s Award for Scholarship & Service
Congratulations to Nazli Kibria, who was named recipient of the 2019 Founder’s Award for Scholarship & Service, by the American Sociological Association’s section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities (SREM)! The award was established in 2007 with a donation from Professor Charles Smith (one of the original founders of the SREM section) to recognize career excellence […]
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 […]
Book Launch Held for Kibria, Bowman, and O’Leary’s Race and Immigration
To celebrate the publishing of Race and Immigration (2013, U.K.: Polity Press) Authors Professor Nazli Kibria and Ph.D. Candidates Cara Bowman and Megan O’Leary celebrated with friends and family at the BU Bookstore at Barnes and Noble in Kenmore Square on Wednesday, April 16th. Congratulations Nazli, Cara, and Megan!
Professor Nazli Kibria Elected Vice-President of Eastern Sociological Society
Professor Nazli Kibria has been elected Vice-President of the Eastern Sociological Society, for a one-year term beginning in 2014. Nazli has been active in a number of leadership roles in the Society, which will hold its annual meeting in Boston March 21-24. Congratulations, Nazli!
PROF NAZLI KIBRIA TO RECIEVE FULL PROFESSORSHIP SEPT 1ST
Professor Nazli Kibria will receive full professorship on September 1st,2012. You can read more about Professor Kibria and the 11 other professor’s who received this honor at the March 21st issue of BU today ”Professor Kibria teaches international migation, families, childhood, and modern South Asia. She is the author most recently of Muslims in Motion: […]
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 […]
PROFESSOR KIBRIA HEADLINES BU TODAY WITH INSIGHTFUL ARTICLE ON HER NEW BOOK
Associate Professor Nazli Kibria headlines BU Today with a story about her recently published book, “Muslims In Motion”. Her Book examines the Bangladeshi diaspora, telling the stories of challenges faced by Bangladeshis in the United States and around the world.
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 […]
PROF. KIBRIA TO SERVE ON ESS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Congratulations to Nazli Kibria on her election to a three-year term on the Executive Committee of the Eastern Sociological Society.
PROF. KIBRIA SPEAKING IN INDIA IN DECEMBER
Prof. Nazli Kibria will be travelling to Delhi to present an address on “The Good Society, Women and Purdah: The Social Remittances of Bangladeshi Labor Migrants to Malaysia.” This will be part of the conference on “Asian Connections” of the China-South Asia International Cultural Forum, Delhi, India, Dec 4-5.