Department of Sociology and Anthropology

Professor Len Albright

socant — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 17:02:49 +0000

Check out Professor Len Albright’s article in today’s Boston Globe about changes and ecology of population in Massachusetts.

Fall 2013 Registration Information

socant — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 17:54:15 +0000

Take a look at our new Fall 2013 Registration Information page! It will help you make your course selections easier.

Student Spotlight: Alexandra Liu

socant — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 19:01:22 +0000

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!

Professor Jack Levin

socant — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:38:31 +0000

Jack Levin’s career accomplishments are no secret. Now, he has been honored to learn that he has been awarded the 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award by the Society for the Study of Social Problems, whose Crime and Juvenile Delinquency Division has selected Levin’s work as making an extraordinary contribution to the study of violence and hate.

Jack’s award will be presented at the SSSP meetings in New York, where a panel of scholars will comment on his work.

Congratulations, Jack!

Student Spotlight: Kelly Royce, Class of 2012

socant — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 19:48:12 +0000

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.

Professor Phil Brown

socant — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 13:29:41 +0000

The Department of Sociology and Anthropology is delighted to announce that our new colleague, Professor Phil Brown, has just been awarded the Reeder Award at Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association in Denver. This prestigious award is given to scholars who have made distinguished contributions to the field of Medical Sociology. It seeks to recognize scholarly contributions that have contributed to both theory and research in medical sociology. The Reeder Award also acknowledges teaching, mentoring, and training as well as service to the medical sociology community, broadly defined. In the light of Professor Brown’s long record of scholarship, activism, Mentoring, and institution building, please join us in congratulating Dr. Brown for this much deserved award.

Professor Steve Vallas, Chair of Sociology and Anthropology, attended the award ceremony, and noted, “This was an inspiring presentation. Listening to Phil review the course of his scholarly work and social activism. I found it hard to believe that a single individual could have launched so many interrelated projects. He is model for us all.”

Professor Brown joins Northeastern as of this fall semester. He is the newly appointed Director of the Institute for Social Science and Environmental Health, and is jointly appointed in Sociology and Health Sciences. The Department of Sociology and Anthropology is excited to both welcome and congratulate Phil on this honor.

Chris Cook (2007 major in Sociology) Named Principal

socant — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 15:03:09 +0000

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).

Professor Arnold Arluke

socant — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:09:46 +0000

West Roxbury Resident One of Best 300 College Professors by Princeton Review

Katrina Uhly, 2012 Council for European Studies Fellow

socant — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 17:53:53 +0000

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

Maryam Talieh, Sociology Major

socant — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 14:05:57 +0000

Discovering the world through experiential learning