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- Pamela Zabala Ortiz<\/a> was awarded The Mauricio Gast\u00f3n Institute’s 2025 Andr\u00e9s Torres Paper Series Award<\/a> for her book project,\u00a0Situating the \u201cAfro\u201d in \u201cAfro-Latinx\u201d: Toward a Sociological Understanding of Ethnoracial Authenticity.<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
- CISS<\/a> postdoctoral fellow and Sociology instructor Tatiana Padilla<\/a> received the Society for Research in Child Development’s “Small Grants Program for Early Career Scholars<\/a> for her project Forced Separation: The Impact of Immigration Raids on Foster Care Admissions and Child Wellbeing.<\/li>\n
- Two of Dr. Padilla’s undergraduate Research Assistants on the RAIDS Team<\/a>, Zoe Solberg (Sociology) and Nayeli Quiles (Political Science) were accepted to a competitive fully-funded summer research\u00a0program\u2014the Next Gen Pop<\/a>.<\/li>\n
- Saida Grundy<\/a> published an op-ed in The Guardian<\/em> entitled, “Trump is terrified of Black culture. But not for the reasons you think”<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
“In his efforts to demolish and disappear Black culture and the institutions that support it, Trump has made a loud admission: if he truly believed that Black culture were inferior, he would be leaving it on display and intact. Its mere existence would prove white supremacy.” <\/span>-Saida Grundy,\u00a0The Guardian<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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- Recent PhD graduate Leping Wang<\/a> is starting a new position as Postdoctoral Researcher at Vanderbilt University’s<\/a> Sociology department.<\/li>\n
- Kazi Mukitul Islam<\/a> has been part of the 2025 Graduate Summer Fellows Arrive at the Pardee Center<\/a>.<\/li>\n
- Undergraduate Sociology major Xiaowei Yang has been awarded the 2025 Provost\u2019s Scholars Award for Academic Exploration.<\/a> And undergraduate student Chenjie Xu has been awarded the 2025 Provost\u2019s Scholars Award for Academic Exploration.<\/a> Congratulations!<\/li>\n
- CISS postdoc Molly Richard<\/a> will be starting as an Assistant Professor in Community-Engaged Research in the Department of Public Health at the University of Rhode Island in the Fall.<\/li>\n
- Cati Connell<\/a>, Sarah Miller<\/a>, and Landon Lauder<\/a> were all featured in the article “As Pride Month Ends, Learn More about BU Social Scientists\u2019 LGBTQ-Focused Research and Book Recommendations”<\/a><\/li>\n
- And Debby Carr<\/a> was featured in BU Today\u00a0<\/em>article “Why Do We Keep Watching Reality Dating Shows?”<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Stay tuned next week for updates about BU Sociology students and faculty at the upcoming ASA conference in Chicago<\/a>!<\/p>\n
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- Kazi Mukitul Islam<\/a> has been part of the 2025 Graduate Summer Fellows Arrive at the Pardee Center<\/a>.<\/li>\n
- CISS<\/a> postdoctoral fellow and Sociology instructor Tatiana Padilla<\/a> received the Society for Research in Child Development’s “Small Grants Program for Early Career Scholars<\/a> for her project Forced Separation: The Impact of Immigration Raids on Foster Care Admissions and Child Wellbeing.<\/li>\n