Category Archives: Awards/Honors
Poetry prizes for Alvarez
Amy M. Alvarez, an associate professor of the practice at Messina College, was named the winner of the inaugural CARICON Prize for Poetry by the CARICON Foundation for her collection of poems, Makeshift Altar (The University Press of Kentucky, 2024). … Continue reading
Poetry honors for alumna
“Little Skate at Ballston Beach,” a poem by Lynne Spigelmire Viti, earned Second Place honors in the regional category of the 12th Annual Joe Gouveia Outermost Poetry Contest. The contest is sponsored by WOMR, a public broadcasting community radio station … Continue reading
Honors for Eaton
Associate Professor of History Nicole Eaton has won honors for her 2023 book German Blood, Slavic Soil: How Nazi Königsberg Became Soviet Kaliningrad (Cornell University Press). The book offers a deep exploration of this port city on the Baltic Sea—the … Continue reading
Latinx Leadership Initiative highlighted
The Boston College School of Social Work’s Latinx Leadership Initiative, which marked its 10th anniversary this spring, is featured in a new publication, Advancing What Works to Intentionally Serve Latino Students: Opportunities for Action – 2024. For 20 years, Excelencia … Continue reading
Accolades for ‘Kantika’
Professor of English Elizabeth Graver’s critically acclaimed novel, Kantika, is winner of a National Jewish Book Award in the category of Sephardic Culture. Kantika was inspired by Graver’s grandmother, who was born into a Sephardic Jewish family in Istanbul and … Continue reading
Theological Book of the Year
Ligita Ryliškytė, SJE, a visiting assistant professor of systematic theology in the BC Theology Department, was awarded Theological Book of the Year by the European Society for Catholic Theology. She was honored for her book, Why the Cross? Divine Friendship … Continue reading
Honors and a new publication for Lynne Viti
Boston College graduate Lynne Viti, who is the poet laureate for Westwood, Massachusetts, was honored last month with the Westbeth Artists Housing’s 2023 Miriam Chaikin Writing Award in Poetry. She also was awarded Third Prize for her poem “Westwood Lodge, … Continue reading
BC grad named a local poet laureate
Boston College graduate Lynne Viti has been named poet laureate for Westwood, Massachusetts. In her role as the town’s poet laureate, Viti will encourage the reading and writing of poetry, mentor a teen poet, and write several poems for local … Continue reading
Book award for Ashley Duggan
The National Communication Association Interpersonal Communication Division has chosen Professor of Communication Ashley Duggan to receive a Gerald R. Miller Outstanding Book Award for her book Health and Illness in Close Relationships (Cambridge University Press, 2019). Synthesizing empirical evidence and … Continue reading
Freedom and joy in commitment
In his new book The Freedom of Missing Out (Loyola Press, 2022), Boston College alumnus Rev. Michael Rossmann, S.J., shatters the popular conception that we should say yes to everything lest we miss out on something better. He taps into … Continue reading