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Professor Len Albright
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Fall 2013 Registration Information
Take a look at our new Fall 2013 Registration Information page! It will help you make your course selections easier.
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Student Spotlight: Alexandra Liu
Alexandra Liu, a Anthropology and International Affairs dual major has won the Outstanding Co-op Award. There will be an awards ceremony in April. Congratulations!
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Student Spotlight: Kelly Royce, Class of 2012
Students in sociology and anthropology are given a freedom unique to the social sciences in their ability to carve out their own education and employment paths. The Department is proud to feature a student who has done just that, Kelly Royce, a 2012 sociology graduate and 2013 admit into the Boston University School of Public Health.
Click here for the complete conversation with Kelly.
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Chris Cook (2007 major in Sociology) Named Principal
From time to time, we feature stories about our recent alumni and the career paths they have blazed, whether in business, public policy, the non-profit world, or education. In this vein, we are pleased to broadcast (read: boast about) the recent accomplishments of Chris Cook, a 2007 major in sociology, who was recently named Principal of the Community Charter School of Cambridge, a 7th-12th grade preparatory school with a distinguished history. Chris has longstanding experience as a teacher, and has already demonstrated an exemplary vision regarding the contours of educational institutions today. Congratulations to Chris!
For a detailed story on Chris’s career at CCSC, point your browser here. Chris’s ambitious vision for charter schools has come to the attention of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, which featured his work in a recent article (which can be found here).
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Professor Arnold Arluke
West Roxbury Resident One of Best 300 College Professors by Princeton Review
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Katrina Uhly, 2012 Council for European Studies Fellow
Third-year sociology Ph.D. student Katrina Uhly has been named a 2012 Council for European Studies Fellow. This fellowship, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, includes a stipend of $4,000 to conduct pre-dissertation fieldwork in Europe, as well as travel support for attending and presenting at the 2014 CES International Conference for Europeanists in Washington, D.C. Katrina’s work focuses on the more
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Maryam Talieh, Sociology Major
Discovering the world through experiential learning
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Eric Madfis, Ph.D. Candidate
Eric Madfis was interviewed by the Northeastern News on Analyzing and Preventing School Shootings.
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Sociology Majors Embark on Business Careers
Recently, a freshman sociology major asked some seniors about the role of sociology in business, and specifically wondered about whether sociologists might be involved in marketing and product design. This prompted a lively discussion. What follows is an adapted version of the exchange that ensued.
Alex Taylor, Class of 2013I did my first co-op with the global advertising team at Reebok‘s world headquarters. Within our department was the rest of the global marketing staff which included digital, retail and public relations (believe it or not, most of the employees did not major in business as an undergrad). There was also the consumer insights team, composed of 2 psych majors and 1 sociology major. The designers and Read more….
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Emma Miller – Class of 2012
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Professor Linda Blum
3Q’s: Is make-up a stepping stone for working women?
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Job Posting
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New Courses for Spring!
Environmental Activism and Movements
SOCL 1346, CRN #35424
Monday, 5:10-8:30 p.m.
Open Classroom Series with Professor Daniel Faber
Family, Kinship, and Identity in Contemporary America: Exploring Adoption
HUSV 3510 (CRN #: 35307)
Instructor: Jennifer Sartori
Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, 10:30-11:35 a.m.
This course will fulfill a social science elective.
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Professor Jeffrey Juris
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PhD Graduate now Director of Africana Studies
Paul Khalil Saucier, a 2008 PhD Graduate, has recently been appointed the director of Africana Studies at Rhode Island College. In addition to earning his new position, Saucier has also edited a new collection entitled Native Tongues: An African Hip Hop Reader.
For more information on his publication, please click here.
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Professor Gordana Rabrenovic
3Qs: Preventing protests from turning violent
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Check out what some of our Alumni are up to!
Andrew Berlanstein’s co-ops helped him land a great job in Chicago with Duvel Moorgat USA Brewery.
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Professor Jack Levin
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Assistant Professor Silvia Dominguez
“Creating Networks for Survival and Mobility” written by Silvia Dominguez and Celeste Watkins and appearing in Social Problems (2003) is being used in the training of service providers at the Crittenton Women’s Union in Boston, MA.
Silvia Dominguez has been contacted by the National Association of Social Workers to develop two courses, one based on Getting Ahead and another based on the article she published with Tammi Arford in the Health Sociology Review in 2010. These courses aim at illustrating how to use social network-based interventions for both community and individual interventions to decrease health disparities. These courses will be available online as continuing education credits for Licensed Social Workers.
“Acculturation of Host Individuals: Immigrants and Personal Networks,” co-written with Isidro Maya-Jariego and published by Community Psychology in 2008, receive international attention appearing in the following German and Spanish academic websites: http://www.innovations-report.de/thml/berichte/gesellschaftswissenschaften/diversity_opportunity_125156.html, http://www.agenciasinc.es/esl/Noticias/La-diversidad-solo-puede-entenderse-como-una-oportunidada.
Dominguez’s participation in the development of the mental health polity for Liberia has brought her national and international recognition. She was featured in the Northeastern University Impact Magazine, which is diffused to high schools all over the United States as well as internationally. The article about her experience in Liberia demonstrates how her global experience enhances her teaching. In addition, she appeared NU News and Physorg, a multi-disciplinary academic news website: http://www.northeastern.edu/news/stories/2009/12/Dominguez.html and http://www.physorg.com/news179159358.html.
In March of 2011. Dominguez was invited to a Meet the Author session at Snell Library, Northeastern University where she talked to a packed audience about Getting Ahead: Social Mobility, Publish Housing and Immigrant Networks.
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