Distinguished Visiting Scholar Loïc Wacquant
sociology department
robert and risa lavizzo-mourey distinguished visiting scholars series 2011
The Robert and Risa Lavizzo-Mourey Distinguished Visiting Scholars Series brings leading sociological scholars to the Boston College campus for a period of residency. During their stay, each scholar delivers a major public lecture, teaches one session of an intensive faculty/graduate student seminar, and is available for informal conversation with students and faculty. This provides a unique opportunity for members of the BC Sociology Department to dialogue and develop relations with a wide variety of important sociologists.
Our distinguished visiting scholar for 2011 was Loïc Wacquant, Professor of Sociology and Research Associate at the Institute for Legal Research, Boalt Law School, University of California at Berkeley. The topics of Professor Wacquant's public lecture and seminar are given below.
The next lecture series will be announced here and on the home page by January 2012.
Schedule of Last Year's Scholar Series
Public Lecture
Hyperincarceration in Revanchist America: Class, Race, and the Booming Prison
Seminar
Social Theory for a Civic Sociology
Seminar Readings
A Civic Sociology of Neoliberal Penality
The Body, the Ghetto and the Penal State
From 'Public Criminology' to the Reflexive Sociology of Criminological Production and Consumption
General DVSS Information
Contact the Sociology Department.
Funded by generous gifts from Robert and Risa Lavizzo-Mourey and the BC Institute for the Liberal Arts.
