NEW BOOK BY ALUMNI FRANCES CHAPUT WAKSLER
Frances Chaput Waksler (PhD, Sociology, 1973) announces her forthcoming book The New Orleans Sniper: A Phenomenological Case Study of Constituting the Other (University Press of America, 2010) which traces the events of a 1973 attack in New Orleans. Many believed the attack be the work of multiple snipers when it was really only one. […]
Alum Sonali Jain Joins Duke University as Post-Doctoral Fellow
Sonali Jain (PhD 2010) is a post-doctoral fellow at Duke University’s Social Sciences Research Institute.
RENOWNED PHOTOGRAPHER AND SOCIOLOGY ALUM RANDY H. GOODMAN TO OPEN EXHIBIT NOVEMBER 9TH
On Thursday November 9th, famed photographer and political sociology alum Randy H. Goodman will be featured at the Boston University Women’s Resource Center Artists opening. His exhibit, titled: IRAN: Images from Beneath A Chador The Hostage Crisis to the Iran-Iraq War, is open from Nov 9th-30th, 2010. The event as well as the exhibit are […]
Alumna Ewa Morawska is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex, UK
Ewa Morawska (PhD 1976) is Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex, UK. Her scholarly research focuses on comparative-historical sociology of international migration, ethnicity, and citizenship (past and present, North America and Europe). Select books include A Sociology of Immigration. (Re)Making Multifaceted America, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009; and International Migration Research: Constructions, Omissions, and Promises of Interdisciplinarity co-editor (with […]
Alumnus David McElhattan to Begin Ph.D Candidacy at Northwestern University
David McElhattan (BA, 2010) has accepted a fully-funded offer to pursue his doctoral studies in sociology at Northwestern University. David, who graduated with distinction in sociology and a double major with philosophy, will continue his work in the area of the sociology of law, a field of particular strength at Northwestern
B.A. Alum Philip Kasinitz wins 2010 ASA Distinguished Scholarly Book Award
Philip Kasinitz (B.A., 1979) received the 2010 ASA Distinguished Scholarly Book Award for Inheriting the City: The Children of Immigrants Come of Age (written with Mary Waters, John Mollenkopf, and Jennifer Holdaway; Harvard University Press, 2008). Kasinitz is a professor of sociology at the Graduate Center and Hunter College of the CUNY and a former President of the […]
CHIH-PENG CHENG TO TEACH AT TSING HUA UNIVERSITY
Congratulations to Chih-peng Cheng (PhD, 2006) on being hired as an assistant professor at National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan. Chih-peng has accepted a tenure track position in the Center for Education and the Institute of Sociology.
COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER MELISSA WEINER FOUNDS BRIGHTER WORLD BOOKS
Melissa Weiner (BU, Class of 2000), Assistant Professor of Sociology at Quinnipiac University, spoke at Department of Sociology Commencement, May 2010. After receiving her Bachelor’s degree in Sociology at BU, Melissa went on to obtain her PhD in 2006 from the University of Minnesota. She is the author of Power, Protest and the Public Schools […]
BU ALUM WORNIE REED BEGINS NEW POSITION AT VIRGINIA TECH
Wornie Reed (PhD, 1976) has just completed his first year as Director of the Center for Race and Social Policy at Virginia Tech University, where he is also a full professor in the Department of Sociology. Earlier in his career he chaired the Department of Black Studies and developed and directed the William Monroe Trotter […]
TWO BU ALUMS WIN MAJOR ASA AWARDS
Philip Kasinitz (B.A., 1979) will be awarded the 2010 ASA Award for the Distinguished Scholarly Book. A long-time student of international migration and a widely sought expert on New York immigrants, he is being honored for Inheriting the City: The Children of Immigrants Come of Age (written with Mary Waters, John Mollenkopf, and Jennifer Holdaway; […]