University of California, Berkeley and Centre européen de sociologie et de science politique, Paris

Loïc Wacquant is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, and Researcher at the Centre européen de sociologie et de science politique, Paris. He is a MacArthur Foundation Fellow and recipient of the 2008 Lewis Coser Award of the American Sociological Association. His work spans urban inequality, ethnoracial domination, the penal state, embodiment, and social theory and the politics of reason. He is a founder and past editor of the interdisciplinary journal Ethnography and was a regular contributor to Le Monde Diplomatique for a decade. Wacquant's books have been translated in some dozen languages and include Body and Soul: Ethnographic Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer (2004), Urban Outcasts: A Comparative Sociology of Advanced Marginality (2008), Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity (2009), Prisons of Poverty (2009), and Deadly Symbiosis: Race and the Rise of the Penal State (forthcoming).

For more information about Loïc Wacquant, see his home page at UC Berkeley.

Public Lecture

Hyperincarceration in Revanchist America: Class, Race, and the Booming Prison
April 27, 5:15 7:00 p.m.
O'Connell House (100 Grand Hall)

See text directions and a campus map with directions to the public lecture. Note that we will have parking passes available at the public lecture for non-BC affiliated attendees.

Seminar

Social Theory for a Civic Sociology
April 28, 2011, 12 noon 2:00 p.m.
RSVP to sociology@bc.edu to attend departmental seminar.

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

Funded by generous gifts from Robert and Risa Lavizzo-Mourey and the BC Institute for the Liberal Arts.