The Gloria L. and Charles I. Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy at Boston College is dedicated to interdisciplinary reflection on the promise and problems of constitutional government in the United States and throughout the world.
The center sponsors scholarly lectures, conferences, and colloquia; provides financial support for faculty, graduate and undergraduate research; offers internship and junior fellowship programs for Boston College undergraduates; and hosts the Boston Area Public Law Workshop, which brings together a community of scholars from colleges and universities around the Boston area to discuss important works-in-progress dealing with questions of constitutional government. Through these and other initiatives, the Clough Center will serve as a hub for reflection upon some of the most significant questions concerning self-government under the rule of law.
News
The Clough Center congratulates Hidetaka Hirota, a doctoral candidate
in History at Boston College, for receiving the Organization of American Historian's Pelzer Award for Best Essay in American History. Hirota
received funding from the Center for his dissertation on the history of immigration restriction in the nineteenth-century United States. Read the full press release here.
Clough Graduate Fellow Seth Meehan Published in The New York Times
Seth Meehan, Clough Center Graduate Fellow, published an article examining the historical dimensions of the contraception debate in the New York Times. Meehan's article, part of the ongoing 2012 election series Campaign Stops, examines the role that Boston Cardinal Richard Cushing played in the birth control debate of the 1960s. See Seth's full article here.
Spring 2012 Clough Report
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