BU Sociology students and faculty present at 2025 Eastern Sociological Society conference
Last week a number of our students and faculty presented at the 2025 ESS conference in Boston. Here are some highlights:
Laboring in the Shadow of Empire: Undergraduate student Lenny Adonteng on Professor Celeste Curington’s new book
By Lenny Adonteng (Sociology, Class of 2025) Professor Celeste Curington’s new book, Laboring in the Shadow of Empire, offers an exploration of the intersections of race, gender, and labor in Portugal. This new work builds on themes she examined in her earlier publication, The Dating Divide, which focused on race and relationship formation within the […]
Celeste Curington publishes new article in the Fall 2024 issue of Contexts
Assistant Professor Celeste Curington has an article in the Fall 2024 issue of Contexts. In “Daring to Feel Joy,” Curington writes “The policing of community space attempts to thwart possibilities for Black joy, yet it endures. Black joy resists and persists.” The full article is available here.
BU Experts profile Celeste Curington’s research
On Valentine’s Day, BU Experts interviewed Celeste Curington about “how online dating has created a new form of digital racism.” The profile highlights her research on the ways race, gender and identity influence the online dating experience drawing from the findings in her 2021 co-authored book The Dating Divide: Race and Desire in the Era […]