PhD candidate Bahar Aldanmaz announced as Pardee Center 2022 Graduate Summer Fellow
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future has announced its 2022 Graduate Summer Fellows. These eight outstanding Boston University graduate students represent five different schools or colleges and eight different academic departments. This includes BU Sociology’s Bahar Aldanmaz. With a transnational feminist lens, Bahar will explore how distinct menstruation actors’ […]
Undergraduate Kelsey Brown named co-winner of the 2022 Sarah Joanne Davis Award
BU Sociology Honors Thesis undergraduate Kelsey Brown is the co-winner of the 2022 Sarah Joanne Davis Scholarship Award competition. The award is given each year to a Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies minor who has made a significant contribution by either writing a paper in one of their WGS courses, or to their community through […]
Loretta Lees recipient of the 2022 Marilyn J. Gittell Activist Scholar Award
Incoming IOC Faculty Director and Professor of Sociology Loretta Lees has been selected as the recipient of the 2022 Marilyn J. Gittell Activist Scholar Award. This award was established to highlight field-based urban scholarship and promote the dissemination of work by activist urban scholars. The award seeks to honor the contributions of a scholar whose […]
PhD Candidate Heather Mooney receives the 2022 Susan K. Jackson Award
PhD candidate Heather Mooney is the 2022 graduate student recipient of the Susan K. Jackson Award, which honors those people who create and nurture community in the BU College of Arts & Sciences. Congratulations Heather!
New Faculty Director Loretta Lees Joining Initiative on Cities
On Friday, July 1, the Boston University Initiative on Cities welcomes a new faculty director, Loretta Lees, who also joins the College of Arts & Sciences as a professor in the department of Sociology. An urban geographer committed to justice, Professor Lees is internationally known for her research on gentrification and urban regeneration, global urbanism, […]
Professor Brown-Saracino featured in Boston article
Professor Brown-Saracino was featured in Boston Magazine’s article, “Bostonian by Choice”. Click here to check it out.
Professor Mijs Publishes in Social Science Quarterly
Professors Jonathan Mijs and Jaap Nieuwenhuis (University of Groningen) published their new article in Social Science Quarterly, “Adolescents’ future in the balance of family, school, and the neighborhood: A multidimensional application of two theoretical perspectives”. Please click here to read.
Jon Shaffer Wins Prestigious Two-Year Postdoctoral Fellowship from Johns Hopkins/University of Oxford
PhD candidate Jon Shaffer has been awarded a two-year Joint Postdoctoral Fellowship in Ethics and Infectious Disease by the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and the Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities at the University of Oxford. He has accepted the fellowship, which will begin September 1. Congratulations, Jon!
Professor Harris elected Vice Chair of the International Studies Association’s Global Health Section
Professor Joseph Harris was honored to be elected Vice Chair of the International Studies Association’s Global Health Section (GHS). The GHS is one of the largest and most active professional forums for interdisciplinary research on global health in the world today.
Dr. Greenberg publishes in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Dr. Max Greenberg published “Other Statistical Lives” in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. Please click here to view.