The Robert and Risa Lavizzo-Mourey Distinguished Visiting Scholar Series for 2009 focuses on The Nature of Nature: Struggles around the Biology of Gender and Race. Our next speaker Anne Fausto Sterling, will come to campus on September 25, 2009.
See the DVSS page for more information on the Distinguished Visiting Scholar Seminar Series.
The Distinguished Visiting Scholar Series is funded by a gift from Robert and Risa Lavizzo-Mourey.
Departmental Seminar
In addition to hosting the annual Distinguished Visiting Scholar Series, the Sociology Department hosts a seminar series throughout the academic year. The seminar series features research work by our faculty, our advanced PhD students, and by other prominent scholars in the field. The departmental seminars have concluded for AY 2008-2009, but you can check out our Seminar Archives page to see some of our past speakers and topics.
A. Javier Treviño, who earned his Ph.D. in sociology from Boston College and now serves as professor of sociology at Wheaton College, has been elected as 2010-1011 president of the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP). 
A paper authored by Ph.D. candidate Jared Del Rosso is this year's winner of the Best Graduate Student Paper Award for the Social Problems Theory Section of SSSP. The paper is entitled "To Make a Prison Mobile: Social Problems Forms and the Construction of Abu Ghraib." 
A paper authored by Ph.D. candidate Matt Williams is this year's winner of the Graduate Student Paper award of the ASA section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements. The paper is entitled "Strategizing Against Sweatshops: Ideology, Strategic Models and Innovation in US Anti-Sweatshop Movement." Recent Ph.D. graduate 
Assistant Sociology Professor Shawn McGuffey's article, "Saving Masculinity: Gender Reaffirmation, Sexuality, Race and Parental Responses to Male Child Sexual Abuse," has won the Best Article Award from the American Sociological Association Sexualities Section. 
The Romero Award recognizes a Boston College junior who exemplifies commitment to the values and ideals that Archbishop Romero held. The scholarship recipients must demonstrate an outstanding record of involvement in and service to the Hispanic and Latino community at BC and in the wider community. There were three finalists for this year's award: Stephanie Andujar, Jeans M. Santana, and Gloria Mercedes Villanueva, all Sociology majors.