BU Sociology at #ESS2025 next week
#ESS2025: “Building Solidarity to Break Cycles of Repression” March 6-9, 2025; Boston, MA The annual Eastern Sociological Society (ESS) conference will be in Boston this year and it starts next week! It will include scheduled sessions, mini conferences, author-meets-critics, and more. BU Sociology faculty and students, both graduate and undergraduate, will be represented throughout the […]
Leping Wang publishes paper in Research in Social Stratification & Mobility
Sociology PhD candidate Leping Wang recently published a single-authored paper titled “Human capital and the upward occupational mobility of rural migrant workers in China” in the journal Research in Social Stratification and Mobility. In this paper, she explores the relationship between four human capital factors including formal education, professional training, professional certificates and the knowledge […]
Japonica Brown-Saracino & Landon Lauder quoted in new Boston.com article
An article published today on Boston.com explores the question “When can you say you’re ‘from Boston’?” It goes on to examine why the question, “So, where are you from?” can surprisingly be difficult to answer even for people called Boston home for many years. Japonica Brown-Saracino is quoted in the article, explaining: “As neighborhoods gentrify, […]
Announcement: Temporary pause to our graduate admissions (2025-2026)
For 2025-2026, the Sociology department is undergoing a temporary pause in our graduate admissions. We fully expect to resume our regular admissions cycle in 2026-2027. As the statement on BU Graduate School of Arts & Sciences website explains: After careful consideration, we have decided to suspend admissions for many of our programs for the upcoming […]
Alya Guseva and Ya-Ching Huang publish article in Journal of Cultural Economy
Alya Guseva and Ya-Ching Huang have published a new article in the Journal of Cultural Economy. “The Moral Economy of Severe Scarcity: How Considerations of Deservingness Shape Cloth Mask Distribution Practices in the Midst of a Global Health Crisis” is available to read in full here.
Leping Wang co-authors paper in Social Science Research
Sociology PhD candidate Leping Wang recently co-authored a paper titled “Selection into higher education and subsequent religious decline in a United States cohort” in Social Science Research. In this paper, they used longitudinal data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97) to investigate: 1) the relationship between childhood religious environment and the likelihood […]
BU Sociology at ASA 2024
119th Annual Meeting: Intersectional Solidarities August 9-13, 2024 | Montreal, Quebec | #ASA2024 The 119th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA) starts this week! This year’s ASA will be in Montreal from August 9th to the 13th. It provides the opportunity for professionals involved in the scientific study of society to share knowledge […]
Andrew Ward & Carlos Campos Jr. publish gentrification research in Cambridge Day
In a recent follow up to their April op-ed about Central Square gentrification in Cambridge Day, BU Sociology graduate students Andrew Ward and Carlos Campos Jr. argue “In studying business gentrification, of course size matters.” Their research was done in partnership with Cambridge Local First through the MetroBridge program at the Initiative on Cities.
Stuti Das publishes new paper in anesthesiology journal JCA Advances
Sociology PhD candidate Stuti Das recently co-authored a paper in the international anesthesiology journal JCA Advances. The paper, “Perceptions about perioperative communication among anesthesiologists and surgeons and the impact of perceived status hierarchies on teamwork in the operating room”, is based on qualitative interviews. Das and her co-authors have been working on the project since […]
Spring 2024 department news updates
It’s been another busy semester! Here are some of the highlights of recent good news from our amazing faculty, graduate and undergraduate students, and recent alums: FACULTY Congratulations to Neha Gondal and Jessica Simes who both received tenure and were promoted to associate professor this month! This is a richly deserved accomplishment and we are […]