Sociology Department
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News and Announcements
Bill Gamson has been selected as the winner of the 2012 ASA W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award. The award honors scholars who have shown outstanding commitment to the profession of sociology and whose cumulative work has contributed in important ways to the advancement of the discipline. Bill will receive the award at the ASA meetings in Denver this August.
Ritchie Lowry Fellowship
Professor Ritchie Lowry is establishing a generous new fellowship (a projected $250,000) to the Sociology Department to support ongoing graduate student research in social economy and the proper use of military force.
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Multimedia
Associate Professor Shawn McGuffey was interviewed as part of a Channel 5 series entitled What Are You? on the growing mixed race population in the U.S.
Video from Boston College Magazine
A one-question interview with Boston College sociologist Lisa Dodson, author of The Moral Underground: How Ordinary Americans Subvert an Unfair Economy.
Sociology Speaks
Sociology Speaks is the department's comprehensive annual newsletter. View the current and archived editions
Alumni Profile
Kelly Joyce Ph.D. 2001 won the 2010 Eliot Freidson Outstanding Publication Award from the American Sociological Association for her recent book, Magnetic Appeal: MRI and the Myth of Transparency, an exploration of the culture and the science of magnetic resonance imaging that is based on her dissertation. More
Master's Profile
Master's candidate Valerie Marshall is focusing her research around poverty, homelessness, and inequality and their connection to gender, social policy, and theory. More