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News and Announcements 2012-2013

Sociology Professor Gustavo Morello, an Argentinian and a Jesuit priest, was interviewed by NECN about his reaction to the election of Frances I, the first Jesuit pope and the first to be elected from the Americas.


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Sociology grad student Amanda Freeman has written three articles on women and poverty in the U.S. for the Newsweek Women in the World website.


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Sociology major Philip McHarris won BC’s 2013 Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Scholarship (see Chronicle and Heights articles). Sociology majors Patrick Williamson and Steven Jefferson were also finalists for the award.


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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.

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.

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 Kimberly Hoang received the American Sociological Association’s “best dissertation” award for her doctoral dissertation on sex work in Vietnam. Kimberly will join the department in academic year 2013.

Grad Announcements

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.

Undergrad Annoucements

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.