Deb Chakraborty was elected as a 2025 student representative for the South Asian Sociologists community of the American Sociological Association.
Tom Corcoran published an article in City & Community, "Street-Level Brokers: Power and Politics in the New England Rustbelt."
Upasana Goswami defended her first comp exam, "Modern/Colonial Resignifications in a Postcolonial Context: Constructing Hindutva Indigeneity and Decoloniality." She was also selected as an Outstanding TA award co-winner for the Fall 2025 Sociology department graduate student awards.
Fei Han defended their first comp paper, "The Great Leap Famine and China's Rural Politics."
Ember Skye Kanelee was co-winner of the Manuel Matos Public Sociology Award for the Fall 2025 Sociology department graduate student awards.
Yifan Li, along with Sociology faculty Don Tomaskovic-Devey and Jasmine Kerrissey, published a paper in Social Forces, "My co-workers, my pay, our inequality regime: a relational inequality model."
Shuyin Liu defended her dissertation prospectus, "Negotiating Family Obligations: Gender, Unpaid Family Labor, and Intergenerational Support in Contemporary China."
Mabrouka M'Barek defended both her second comp paper, "Territorializing Whiteness: Race, State Formation, and the Settler Colonial Transformation of N'dakinna in the Longue Durée" and her prospectus of her dissertation, "Enclosing Life: Displacement, Ecology, and the Capitalist Transformation of Rural Worlds in North America and North Africa."
Eliana Mercedes was selected as the Best Empirical Comp Paper Award winner for the Fall 2025 Sociology department graduate student awards.
Esther Moraes defended her dissertation prospectus, "Making Abortion Political: NGOs and Development Actors in Abortion Advocacy in India."
Stefanie Robles was selected as an Outstanding TA award co-winner for the Fall 2025 Sociology department graduate student awards.
Jordan Sanderson was selected as the Outstanding TO award winner for the Fall 2025 Sociology department graduate student awards.
Lyndsey Saunders was awarded the Sociology Graduate Student Association's Fall 2025 Graduate Service award.
Salman Sikandar passed his comprehensive exam, focused on colonialism, imperialism, and empire.
Jiajia Wei was awarded the Sociology Graduate Student Association's Fall 2025 Outstanding Peer Mentor award.
Chanki Yoo was selected as an Honorable Mention Outstanding TA award winner for the Fall 2025 Sociology department graduate student awards.
Chenxi Yuan defended her first comp, "Credibility Evaluation in Workplace Discrimination Claims: Using Large Language Models (LLMs) to analyze Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD) hearing decisions."
Manny Zenquis defended his first comp paper, "How Bomba transformed memory into resistance."