Sadie Cowan (CAS ’23, BU SPH ’24) awarded Fulbright research grant
Sadie Cowan (CAS ’23, BU SPH ’24) who graduated with honors with BA in Sociology was recently awarded a Fulbright research grant for the 2024-2025 cycle. Sadie will be working and living in New Delhi, India, where she will be conducting social epidemiology research about Tuberculosis (TB) and undernutrition. India is home to approximately a quarter […]
Jyoti Puri and Ana Villarreal elected to 2024 ASA positions
Congratulations to Jyoti Puri and Ana Villarreal for being elected to the ASA Culture Council, and to Ana Villarreal for her election the Community and Urban Sociology Section Publications Committee.
Sean Ahern (CAS ’14) returns to give BU Sociology’s 2024 commencement address
Sean Ahern is a practicing legal services attorney and a BU Law Class of 2017 alumnus. Sean is currently a senior attorney at Greater Boston Legal Services and a part-time lecturer at BU Law. At BU, Sean teaches courses in legal research & writing and in legal interviewing and client counseling. He has also published […]
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 […]
Gentrification conference write up in Nature Cities journal
Last October, our department teamed up with the BU Initiative on Cities to host the global symposium “Gentrification, what can we do about it? An international dialogue”. The conference was recently covered in the journal Nature Cities. You can read the full write up here.
PhD student Andrew Ward publishes gentrification op-ed in Cambridge Day
In a new Cambridge Day op-ed, PhD student Andrew Ward utilizes his research from Professor Loretta Lees’ Gentrification Studies class last semester. In the article “Gentrification study of Central Square finds independent spirit that’s being sorely tested,” Ward presents findings from Cambridge Local First’s inaugural State of Small Business report to demonstrate the rapid pace […]
BU Today feature: What’s the Difference Between the Majors?
Sociology major Sofia Marin (CGS’22, CAS’24) represented our department in BU Today talking with a Psychology student about how their majors differ from each other. “I became more politically involved and realized that I was really interested in looking at how institutions affect things on a macro level,” Marin says. “And there were such niche […]
John Stone remembered in the British Sociological Association’s newsletter
A moving tribute to John Stone has been published in the Spring issue of Network, the newsletter of the British Sociological Association. The obituary is written by friend and colleague Stephen Mennell, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at University College Dublin, who remembers John as “Quite a character!” The issue is available to read here on […]
PhD candidate Meghann Lucy accepts position at Truman State University
PhD candidate Meghann Lucy has accepted a tenure-track assistant professor of sociology and criminal justice position at Truman State University. She will join their faculty in Fall 2024. Congratulations, Meghann! She was also featured recently in The Daily Free Press article “CISS and Spark! partnership combines quantitative data and social science in research” focusing on her role […]
Ana Villarreal named Pardee Center 2024 Faculty Research Fellow
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future recently announced its 2024 Faculty Research Fellows. The 12 new Faculty Research Fellows include our very own Ana Villarreal with her two-year interdisciplinary workshop series, “Urban Violence and Resilience in the Americas: Bridging Transnational Research on Guns, Drugs, and Civic Engagement.” It will […]