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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’ […]

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 […]

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 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.