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. BARMAN’S BOOK DISCUSSED IN BUSINESS JOURNAL
Prof Emily Barman was interviewed and her book Contesting Communities was discussed for an article in the newspaper Indianapolis Business Journal. For the full story, visit: http://www.ibj.com/local-united-way-eyes-broader-donor-base/PARAMS/article/22341
PROF. OLAFSDOTTIR RECEIVES NIH GRANT TO STUDY HEALTH INEQUALITIES
Assistant Professor Sigrun Olafsdottir (along with Jason Beckfield, Harvard University) has received an R03 grant from the National Institutes of Health for a project titled: A Comparative Approach to Social Inequalities in Health. Building on their previous research, they will explore the role of cross-national institutional differences in accounting for variation in health disparities across […]
PROF. MEARS ON SUPERMODELS AS TOXIC ASSETS
Prof. Ashley Mears’ article ” How Supermodels Are like Toxic Assets”, as featured on the blog 3 Quarks Daily, has been nominated Recommended Reading by The Economist and NY Times Economix. Her article was also reviewed on the websites Jezebel and The Atlantic Wire.
INTERVIEW WITH PROF. GUSEVA NOW ONLINE
Professor Alya Guseva, author of Into the Red: The Birth of the Credit Card Market in Postcommunist Russia, has recently been interviewed by David Evans and Pymnts.com on the Russian credit card market. The interview is available online at http://www.pymnts.com/from-russia-with-love-and-payment-cards/?nl
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.
GREENFELD WILL BE DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER AT LINGNAN UNIVERSITY, HONG KONG
Professor of Political Science, Sociology, and Anthropology and Director of the Institute for the Advancement of the Social Sciences Liah Greenfeld was recently appointed Distinguished Adjunct Professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at Lingnan University, Hong Kong for a term of five years, starting May 2011. During yearly month-long stays, she will […]
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.
FACULTY AND GRADUATE STUDENT PRESENTATIONS: A TRAVEL LOG
With the academic year coming to a close, the time has come to look back on the places to which BU sociologists have taken their knowledge about the social world. From Annandale-on-Hudson, NY to Cairo, Egypt, faculty and graduate student have given talks in fifteen states, including our nation’s capital, and twelve countries internationally. Speaking […]
FORMER FACULTY MEMBER JOHN MCKINLAY CONTINUES TO PIONEER HEALTH CARE RESEARCH
McKinlay, founder of the New England Research Institutes, recently announced a new Institute for Health Services and Disparities, co-directed by Lisa Marceau, which will explore the root causes of health care disparities. The Institute’s approach will expand upon previous research by focusing on the health care inequalities generated or amplified by patient interactions with the […]