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sociology department
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Sociology Professor Gustavo Morello, an Argentinian and a Jesuit priest, was
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Sociology graduate student Amanda Freeman is writing three articles on women and poverty in the U.S. for the
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Sociology undergraduate major Philip McHarris won BC’s 2013 Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Scholarship (see Faculty Announcements
 Brian Gareau’s analysis of the challenges facing global environmental governance appears on e-International Relations. |
 Lisa Dodson has been invited to the Massachusetts State House to present her coauthored new study, which shows that teens whose parents have low-income jobs are at greater risk for obesity, dropping out of school and prolonged poverty. |
 Paul Schervish, director for the Center on Wealth and Philanthropy, discussed how the budget deal affected rates of giving after the fiscal cliff on WGBH Boston Public Radio. |
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David Karp received the 2012 George Herbert Mead Lifetime Achievement Award given by the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction (SSSI). The award was given at the Annual Meetings of the Society in Denver at their annual awards banquet on August 18.
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Bill Gamson received the 2012 ASA W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award, honoring scholars who have shown outstanding commitment to sociology and whose cumulative work has contributed in important ways to the advancement of the discipline.
New sociology faculty member
Grad Announcements
 Sociology PhD student Sarah Woodside received a Program on Negotiation Graduate Research Fellowship for 2013-14. |
 The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences has selected sociology grad student Cristina Lucier as the recipient of this year's Engelhard Pingree Research Award. |
 Sociology Ph.D. student Autumn Green has recently won two fellowships: an American Association of University Women’s American (AAUW) Dissertation Fellowship, and the Beth B. Hess Memorial Scholarship. Autumn's dissertation project is tentatively called Surviving and Striving: Supporting low-income mothers in the pursuit of higher education. |
  Emily Barko and David Harker are this year’s winners of the Donald White Teaching Award. |
  Selen Yanmaz and Lara Birk are this year’s winners of the Bruyn Award. |
 Ph.D. alumna Shelley White received the Professor of the Year Award at Simmons College. The award, nominated and selected by the senior class, is presented each year to a faculty member who is outstanding in teaching, advising and providing support and guidance to students. |
Undergrad Announcements
 Sociology undergrad student Rayana Grace received the Donald Brown Award, awarded by the Office of AHANA Student Programs. |
 Sociology major Megan Cannavina won the Junior Year Award, given to "the junior who embraced the changes embedded in the junior year experience” and who was instrumental in creating community. |
 Sociology major Steven Jefferson has been selected as 1 of 8 juniors selected out of a pool of over 400 applicants from across the country to the Graduate Prep Academy of the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education. |
| Margaret (Maggie) O’Neill received the John D. Donovan Paper Award for her paper, “When Baklava Meets Bratwurst: Exploring the Historical, Cultural, and Structural Obstacles of Turkish Integration in Contemporary Germany.” Her adviser was Paul Gray. |
| Megan Wagner won the William Gamson Award for Outstanding Contributions to Sociology. |
| Genevieve DiSpirito (“On Subjectivity and Embodiment: Women vs Psychoanalysis”) and Franca Luna Godenzi (“The Dual-Career Family of the 21st Century”) shared the Lynda Lytle Holmstrom Paper Award. |
| The David Karp Senior Thesis Award was won by Alexandra Haggerty in recognition of her thesis, “Identity and Environmentalism: Attitudes and Behaviors Among Socially Involved Students.” Her advisor was Brian Gareau. |