Honors for Sociology alumnus, grad student

A. Javier Treviño, who earned his Ph.D. in sociology from BC in 1990, has been elected president of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, and sociology Ph.D. candidate Jared Del Rosso will receive its Best Graduate Student Paper Award. More

Perceptions of emotion

A paper co-authored by Psychology Prof. Lisa Feldman Barrett on the varying ways in which people perceive emotion in men vs. emotion in women (to be published in the journal Emotion) is highlighted by Newsweek.

Penn's 'holy experiment'

The 'peaceable kingdom' was too good to last - after William Penn, Native Americans were treated savagely in Pennsylvania, writes History Prof. Kevin Kenny - author of a new book on the subject - in the Philadelphia Inquirer.

2009 Fulbrights

Four graduate students: Bede Bidlack, Kevin Conroy, Jeffrey R. Nagengast, and Kevin Vander Schel have won Fulbright Grants. BC Chronicle

Faculty books

A sampling of recently published books by A&S faculty: emotional memory across the adult lifespan by Elizabeth Kensinger, Ottoman Tulips, Ottoman Coffee by Dana Saji, and The Future of Liberalism by Alan Wolfe.

Confession in America

Clough Millennium Prof. of History James O'Toole offers insights on the past, present and future of the sacrament of confession in the U.S. Boston Globe.

"Best Article Award"

Sociologist 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.