I live in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, and since 2003 I've been working in the sociology department at Long Island University-Brooklyn. My research interests are broadly focused on issues surrounding migration, immigrant assimilation, ethnic identity, and social inequality. I conducted ethnographic research among Muslims in Hyderabad, India, South Asians in the US, and migrants in Dubai. I'm currently working on a book with Margaret M. Chin on where Stuyvesant High School (New York City) graduates end up, how they got there, and the influence that Stuyvesant had on them.
I was the co-editor of Contexts Magazine with sociologist Philip Cohen from 2014-2017. It is by far the best sociology publication in the US (and the world!) as everything in there is topnotch, but more importantly, actually readable. Contexts is a place for nonsociologists to learn about sociology in an approachable way. This means well-written short pieces with no jargon and no long, deathly boring and too often pointless literature reviews citing everyone under the sun. Just interesting, straightforwardly written sociological stories that are in no way dumbed down but are still highly rigorous and of the highest quality. I think all academics should write this way.
Oh, I'm also a potter.
You can follow me on Twitter @skyedali.
If the urge strikes, you can reach me at syed.f.ali@gmail.com.
(Photo: Coney Island boardwalk.)
I was the co-editor of Contexts Magazine with sociologist Philip Cohen from 2014-2017. It is by far the best sociology publication in the US (and the world!) as everything in there is topnotch, but more importantly, actually readable. Contexts is a place for nonsociologists to learn about sociology in an approachable way. This means well-written short pieces with no jargon and no long, deathly boring and too often pointless literature reviews citing everyone under the sun. Just interesting, straightforwardly written sociological stories that are in no way dumbed down but are still highly rigorous and of the highest quality. I think all academics should write this way.
Oh, I'm also a potter.
You can follow me on Twitter @skyedali.
If the urge strikes, you can reach me at syed.f.ali@gmail.com.
(Photo: Coney Island boardwalk.)
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