NEW FACULTY MEMBERS TO JOIN DEPARTMENT
The Department is thrilled to announce the impending appointments of three new faculty members. Joining us from University of Texas-Austin will be Catherine Connell, whose research and teaching focus on the Sociology of Sexualities. Ruha Benjamin will join both the Sociology department and the African American Studies program. She is currently completing a post-doc at […]
FACULTY AND GRAD STUDENTS AT ESS CONFERENCE
From presiding at sessions to presenting results of research to convening conversations, Boston University sociologists will be busy nearly every hour at the upcoming Eastern Sociological Society meetings. Starting on Thursday March 18th at the Park Plaza Hotel the meetings will run through Sunday. Two of the many highlights will be a mini-conference on “Gender, […]
LIAH GREENFELD’S BOOK RECEIVES INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION
In December 2009, the Russian translation of Prof. Greenfeld’s book Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity (Moscow: Per Se, 2008) was included in the list of Glavnye Knigi 2009 goda (Main Books of 2009) among the 21 titles under the rubric of “foreign non-fiction”. This same book was translated into Chinese and joins Capitalism: Nationalism and […]
PROF. ECKSTEIN LECTURES IN CAIRO
Susan Eckstein traveled to Egypt in mid-January to give a plenary lecture on Social Movements in Developing Countries at a conference at American University in Cairo.
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.
NEW FACULTY MEMBERS TO JOIN DEPARTMENT
The Department is thrilled to announce the impending appointments of three new faculty members. Joining us from University of Texas-Austin will be Catherine Connell, whose research and teaching focus on the Sociology of Sexualities. Ruha Benjamin will join both the Sociology department and the African American Studies program. She is currently completing a post-doc at […]
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.
PROF. ECKSTEIN CO-HEADS CONFERENCE ON US-CUBA POLICY
On Friday November 6th 2009, Boston University hosted Whither US-Cuba Policy?, a conference engaging a range of scholars, policy makers and experts on US-Cuba policy. Professor Susan Eckstein and ambassador Paul Hare headed the event, which focused on current developments in the relationship as well as commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution.
SOCIOLOGISTS AT THE SOCIETY FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF RELIGION ANNUAL MEETING
This year’s meeting of the SSSR, in Denver, featured a dozen BU contributors. Presenters included students and faculty from the Psychology and Religion departments, as well as Sociology. Sociology graduate student Roman Williams presented “Lived Religion Beyond Borders: Evangelical Christianity in the Everyday Lives of International Students in the USA.” Mia Diaz-Edelman presented “A Burning […]
PROF. YEAGER WEIGHS IN ON DEFENDANTS’ RIGHTS
Writing in the October 26 Boston Globe, Prof. Peter Yeager argues for the rights of defendants to challenge crime lab evidence against them. Read his letter to the editor in the Boston Globe:.