We are delighted to share with you the latest accomplishments of our students, faculty, and alumni. We could not achieve all that we do without your generosity!
Thanks to your generous support, we have continued our departmental seminar series, offered expanded support for graduate and undergraduate research, and showcased our honors students’ independent research. A few highlights of the 2024-2025 academic year include:
- Our faculty-led workshops continue to flourish. In AY 24- 25, they include: Urban Inequalities Workshop, Migration Studies Workshop, and the Global Health Politics Workshop.
- Dr. Alondra Nelson presents at the 17th annual Albert Morris Lecture
- BU Sociology students and faculty present at 2025 Eastern Sociological Society conference
- Loretta Lees and Initiative on Cities featured in The Brink
- Japonica Brown Saracino and Heather Schoenfeld receive Russell Sage Foundation research grants
- Pamela Zabala Ortiz publishes new article in Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
- Laboring in the Shadow of Empire: Undergraduate student Lenny Adonteng on Professor Celeste Curington’s new book
- Leping Wang publishes paper in Research in Social Stratification & Mobility
- Celeste Curington publishes new article in the Fall 2024 issue of Contexts
- Loretta Lees helps develop new tool to fight gentrification in Louisville, Kentucky
- Japonica Brown-Saracino & Landon Lauder quoted in new Boston.com article
- Sociology department hike in the Blue Hills
- Ana Villarreal’s book reviewed in ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America
- David Swartz publishes new book and articles on “The Academic Trumpists”
- Alya Guseva and Ya-Ching Huang publish article in Journal of Cultural Economy
- Leping Wang co-authors paper in Social Science Research
- Nazli Kibria publishes op-ed in The Daily Star (Bangladesh)
- BU Sociology at ASA 2024
- Andrew Ward & Carlos Campos Jr. publish gentrification research in Cambridge Day
- Loretta Lees wins International Planning History Society book prize
- Saida Grundy elected committee chair for ASA distinguished career award
- Pamela Zabala Ortiz wins Aristide Zolberg Distinguished Student Scholar Award
- Stuti Das publishes new paper in anesthesiology journal JCA Advances
- Saida Grundy wins ASA Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities article award
- PhD alum Sara Bubenik named ACLS postdoctoral fellow at United Way of MA
- Saida Grundy wins 2024 Race, Gender, and Class Book Award
- Sadie Cowan (CAS ’23, BU SPH ’24) awarded Fulbright research grant
- Jyoti Puri and Ana Villarreal elected to 2024 ASA positions
- Sean Ahern (CAS ’14) returns to give BU Sociology’s 2024 commencement address
- Spring 2024 department news updates