BU Sociology students and faculty present at 2025 Eastern Sociological Society conference

Last week a number of our students and faculty presented at the 2025 ESS conference in Boston. Here are some highlights:

BU Sociology undergraduate students presenting their posters at ESS: (Left to right) Angelina Silva-Perez, Matt Lutkins, Tia Perkins, Lingxin (Louise) Lu, Wenhui Chen
Undergraduate student Tia Perkins presenting their poster on how young adults navigate LGBTQ+ community care. Tia won a Best Poster Award for their presentation. Congrats!
Japonica Brown-Saracino (second from right) on the ESS presidential panel The Complexities of Gentrification: Slow Violence or Uplift?
Loretta Lees (second from left) on the ESS presidential panel Acting on Anti-Displacement Strategies
Celeste Curington (left) at the author meets critics panel for her book Laboring in the Shadow of Empire: Race, Gender, and Care Work in Portugal
Celeste Curington presenting recipients at the ESS awards ceremony
Jonathan Mijs (left), along with Japonica Brown Saracino (right), participating at an author meets critics panel for the author of the book The Politics of the Elite: Ideological Orientations, Mothering, and Social Mobilities in Neoliberal Chile
Saida Grundy’s book Respectable on display at the University of California Press table at ESS