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.
Loretta Lees wins International Planning History Society book prize
Loretta Lees has won the International Planning History Society’s (IPHS) First Book Prize for her publication, with Elanor Warwick, Defensible Space on the Move (Wiley, 2022). The prize is awarded to “the most innovative book in planning history, written in English and based on original new research.” Lees and Warwick accepted the prize, via Zoom, […]
Saida Grundy elected committee chair for ASA distinguished career award
Saida Grundy has been elected chair of the selection committee for the ASA Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology. Grundy will serve a three-year term, starting August 31st, and will replace the current chair, Tasleem Padamsee.
Pamela Zabala Ortiz wins Aristide Zolberg Distinguished Student Scholar Award
Incoming assistant professor, and recent Duke University PhD graduate, Pamela Zabala Ortiz has won the 2024 Aristide Zolberg Distinguished Student Scholar Award. Through the ASA’s International Migration section, the award is given annually to an outstanding paper written by a graduate student member of the section published during the preceding two years. Pamela’s winning paper, […]
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 […]
Saida Grundy wins ASA Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities article award
Saida Grundy has won the ASA SREM (Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities) Oliver Cromwell Cox Article Award for her 2021 article, “Lifting the Veil on Campus Sexual Assault: Morehouse College, Hegemonic Masculinity, and Revealing Racialized Rape Culture through the Du Boisian Lens”, in Social Problems. The award “recognizes research that critically addresses the issues […]
Saida Grundy receives honorable mention for Race, Gender, and Class article award
Saida Grundy has received an honorable mention in the American Sociological Association’s Section on Race, Gender, and Class Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Article Award for 2024. The article “Lifting the Veil on Campus Sexual Assault: Morehouse College, Hegemonic Masculinity, and Revealing Racialized Rape Culture through the Du Boisian Lens” was published in Social Problems 68:226-249.
PhD alum Sara Bubenik named ACLS postdoctoral fellow at United Way of MA
Sara Bubenik has been named an American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) postdoctoral fellow at United Way of Massachusetts Bay (UWMB). Bubenik has been appointed as UWMB Research Communications Director where, among other responsibilities, she will collaborate with colleagues and research partners to disseminate findings from ongoing research efforts to a broad audience.
Saida Grundy wins 2024 Race, Gender, and Class Book Award
Saida Grundy’s book Respectable: Politics and Paradox in Making the Morehouse Man (University of California Press, 2022) recently won the ASA’s 2024 Race, Gender, and Class Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award. The award recognizes a scholar who “has made a significant contribution to the development of the integrative field of race, gender, and class through […]