Urban Inequalities Workshop Friday (11/4) with Camille Petersen
The next Urban Inequalities Workshop will be on Friday, November 4th from 2:30pm-4 at 75 Bay State Road. We will be joined by Dr. Camille Petersen, Visiting Assistant Professor in Sociology at BU. She will be presenting her work-in-progress titled: “Oldest City: St. Augustine, FL in the Heritage Industrial Complex.” If you would like to […]
Saida Grundy’s new book ‘Respectable’ featured in The Brink and Inside Higher Ed
Saida Grundy’s new book Respectable: Politics and Paradox in Making the Morehouse Man was featured in both BU’s The Brink and Inside Higher Ed this month. Read both stories to learn more about the book New Yorker writer Jelani Cobb has called, “an indispensable addition to the canon of work on Black masculinity.” In The Brink interview, Professor […]
Sociology Undergraduate Mentoring Program launch
The Boston University Sociology Undergraduate Mentoring Program is preparing to launch for the 2022 – 2023 academic year. We’ll be introducing the program and our wonderful mentors – PhD students in the Sociology department – at a Zoom info session on Monday, October 3rd at 5pm ET, link here. Time commitment is roughly 1-2 hours per month. […]
September Newsletter
Our first month of the Fall semester has been a busy one! Here is just a selection of the many September highlights from BU Sociology: On September 24th, we gathered in Jamaica Plain for our Fall Social and walk around The Arnold Arboretum. Earlier in the month, Heba […]
Fall 2022 Seminar Series
We are excited to announce our Fall 2022 Seminar Series! Wednesday September 28th, Robin Bartram, Stacked Decks: Building Inspectors and the Reproduction of Urban Inequality, 12:00 pm, 100 Cummington Mall, Room 241 RSVP Wednesday October 5th, Michael Sierra-Arévalo, The Danger Imperative: Violence, Death, and the Soul of American Policing, 12:00 pm, 100 Cummington Mall, Room […]
Let’s Talk About Cities with Loretta Lees on Sept. 19th
Please join the Boston University Initiative on Cities, Department of Sociology, and Center for Innovation in Social Science as we welcome Professor Loretta Lees, Faculty Director of the Initiative on Cities, to Boston University! Professor Lees comes to BU from the University of Leicester (UK), where she worked for nine years as a professor of human geography […]
Fall 2022 Welcome Back Party
Welcome back to buzzing Boston in the fall! We deeply appreciate everyone who came to the department’s welcome back party at Fuller’s BU Pub this past week. Thank you for bringing your radiant selves! We are ready to work with you and are excited to see all that this semester brings.
Welcome to our new graduate cohort!
Boston University’s Department of Sociology warmly welcomes our incoming cohort of graduate students. The Fall 2022 semester begins next week with our first new group of PhD and MA students in two years: Sophie Arnold, Taylor Beauvais, Yasemin Girgin, Cristian Morales, Kazi Mukitul, Caroline Sheehan, and Andrew Ward. Welcome to BU!
Susan Eckstein’s new book featured in BU Today
As the Center for Innovation in Social Science recently shared, Susan Eckstein’s new book on Cuban Immigration to US was featured in BU Today on August 1, 2022. The book, Cuban Privilege: The Making of Immigrant Inequality in America, was published earlier this year by Cambridge University Press. It examines how and why immigrants from Havana […]
Our department is hiring!
BU Sociology is currently hiring for three positions. Please help us spread the word! First, we are in search of a tenure track Assistant Professor specializing in the sociology of health and medicine. See the Academic Jobs Online ad here. Our department is also in search of a senior scholar specializing in race and ethnicity. […]