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News and Announcements
Waiting for Cancer to Come
Sharlene Hesse-Biber presented Waiting for Cancer to Come: Genetic Testing and Women's Medical Decision Making at the departmental seminar on February 7.
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