Sociology Faculty Directory

Josh Seim

Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies

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Josh Seim

Ph.D.

Contact

McGuinn Hall 427

Email: josh.seim@bc.edu

Education

  • B.A., Gonzaga University
  • M.S., Portland State University
  • Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Courses

Sociology 7715: Classical Sociological Theory (graduate)

Sociology 7716: Contemporary Sociological Theory (graduate) 

Personal Website Curriculum Vitae

Department

Sociology

Profile

Josh Seim is broadly interested in the sociologies of work, medicine, welfare, punishment, and more. He also frequently writes about pedagogy and ethnographic methods. 

His research has appeared in American Sociological Review, Social Problems, Sociological Methods and Research, Social Science and Medicine, Punishment and Society, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Teaching Sociology, and other outlets. 

He is the author of The Welfare Assembly Line: Public Servants in the Suffering City, (University of California Press, 2026) and Bandage, Sort, and Hustle: Ambulance Crews on the Front Lines of Urban Suffering (University of California Press, 2020). 

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