Category Archives: Awards/Honors
Honor for alumna
Cristina Richie, who earned a master’s degree in 2012 and will graduate this month with a doctorate in theological ethics, has been honored with the 2016 Evangelical Press Association, Higher Goals in Christian Journalism First Place Student Writer of the Year … Continue reading
Honors for Bowles
Assistant Professor of German Studies Daniel Bowles was named winner of the 2016 Helen & Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize for his translation of Christian Kracht’s Imperium: A Fiction of the South Seas (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015). Established in 1996, the annual prize is awarded … Continue reading
Honors for Martínez Alemán
Lynch School of Education Professor Ana Martínez Alemán was honored with the 2016 Outstanding Publication Award in Division J (Postsecondary Education) for Critical Approaches to the Study of Higher Education (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015), a book she co-edited with Estela … Continue reading
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Bancroft Prize
Madison’s Hand: Revising the Constitutional Convention by Professor of Law and Michael and Helen Lee Distinguished Scholar Mary Sarah Bilder has been named one of the winners of the 2016 Bancroft Prize, considered to be among the most prestigious awards in the … Continue reading
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Book award for Hunt
Assistant Professor of English Aeron Hunt’s book, Personal Business: Character and Commerce in Victorian Literature and Culture (University of Virginia Press, 2014), was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2015. Among Hunt’s areas of expertise are Victorian literature and culture, … Continue reading
George Washington Prize finalist
Madison’s Hand: Revising the Constitutional Convention by Boston College Law School Professor and Lee Distinguished Scholar Mary Sarah Bilder has been named a finalist for the 2016 George Washington Prize. The annual award recognizes the past year’s best written works on the nation’s founding era, … Continue reading
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Madison’s Hand named a “book of the year”
The Legal Theory Blog, by Georgetown Law Professor Lawrence Solum, has named Madison’s Hand: Revising the Constitutional Convention by BC Law Professor Mary Sarah Bilder one of its “books of the year,” calling it one of the ten most interesting books … Continue reading
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Lykes named co-editor of journal
Boston College Center for Human Rights and International Justice Associate Director M. Brinton Lykes, a professor of community-cultural psychology in the Lynch School of Education, has been named co-editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Transitional Justice. The journal publishes high quality … Continue reading
Honors for Bowles
Publishers Weekly has selected Daniel Bowles’ English translation of Christian Kracht’s Imperium as one of the top ten books of 2015. The translation also made it to Huffington Post’s list of the “18 Best Fiction Books of 2015.” Bowles is an assistant … Continue reading
Mass. Book Award
Alumnus Paul Reynolds, a part-time faculty member in the Communication Department, has been recognized by the Massachusetts Center for the Book with a 2015 Massachusetts Book Award for his picture book, Going Places (Simon & Schuster, 2014). The Massachusetts Book Awards recognize … Continue reading
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