News and Announcements

Sharlene Hesse-Biber gave the keynote address at Fordham’s Lincoln Center Campus.

Juliet Schor is #30 on the (En)Rich List, which celebrates inspirational individuals whose contributions enrich paths to sustainable futures.

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.

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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What Are You?

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.

SocialEyes

SocialEyes is our undergraduate academic journal, run by the students themselves. Check out their latest issue, Winter 2012.

Danielle Egan, Professor and Coordinator of Gender and Sexuality Studies at St. Lawrence University and a Ph.D. alumna of BC’s Sociology department, presented her lecture “Touched by the “Skank Fairy”?: Sexualization and Middle Class Displacement” at the departmental seminar.

Katherine Adam is the first BC undergraduate alumni to have her undergraduate thesis published as a book, The New Feminized Majority: How Democrats Can Change America with Women's Values, co-authored with her thesis advisor Sociology Professor Charles Derber. She was profiled by the Chronicle last year.