Category Archives: Awards/Honors
Honors for Sabbath
BC School of Social Work Assistant Professor Erika Sabbath has been named a recipient of a 2015 Richard Kalish Innovative Publication Award from the Gerontological Society of America. The award honors insightful and innovative publications on aging and life course development in … Continue reading
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Tagged aging, research, School of Social Work
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Book award for Sharlene Hesse-Biber
Boston College Professor of Sociology Sharlene Hesse-Biber has been honored by Alpha Sigma Nu, the honor society for Jesuit colleges and universities, with a 2015 Alpha Sigma Nu Book Award for her book, Waiting for Cancer to Come: Women’s Experiences with Genetic Testing … Continue reading
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Tagged cancer, Jesuit, Sociology Dept
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Catholic Press Association honors
Boston College faculty members including Professor of Theology M. Shawn Copeland and School of Theology and Ministry Assistant Professor Hosffman Ospino, Associate Professor Thomas Stegman, S.J., and Research Professor Christopher R. Matthews were among those honored by the Catholic Press Association … Continue reading
In honor of Richard Cobb-Stevens
Philosophy Professor Emeritus Richard Cobb-Stevens’ work in phenomenological philosophy, analytic philosophy and the history of philosophy has served as model for generations of philosophers working between these three fields of research. As a tribute to Cobb-Stevens, several leading experts in phenomenological philosophy … Continue reading
Book prize for alumnus
Boston College alumnus Kyle G. Volk has been honored with the 2015 Merle Curti Prize in Intellectual History by the Organization of American Historians for his book, Moral Minorities and the Making of American Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2014). Volk’s … Continue reading
Bilder, O’Connor honored for their work
Boston College Law School Professor Mary Bilder (pictured) and Professor Emerita Sharon Hamby O’Connor, along with Harvard Law professor Charles Donahue, Jr., have been selected by the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) to receive the 2015 Joseph L. Andrews Legal … Continue reading
James Najarian honored
Associate Professor of English James Najarian has been honored by the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers with its Stephen J. Meringoff Writing Award in Poetry. A specialist in Romantic and Victorian poetry, Najarian won the award for his poems “Kleptomania,” … Continue reading
Book award for Derber
Capitalism: Should You Buy It? (Paradigm Publishers, 2014) co-written by Boston College Professor of Sociology Charles Derber and Yale Magrass (University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth) has been selected as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2014 by the editors of Choice magazine, an … Continue reading
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Tagged America, economy, Sociology Dept
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Award for Hargreaves
Lynch School of Education Thomas More Brennan Professor Andy Hargreaves and his co-author Michael Fullan have been named recipients of the 2015 Grawemeyer Award in Education from the University of Louisville for the ideas expressed in their book, Professional Capital: Transforming Teaching in Every School (Teachers … Continue reading
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Book prize for Levenson
Congratulations to Professor of History Deborah Levenson who was awarded the New England Council of Latin American Studies’ Marysa Navarro Best Book Prize for her publication Adiós Niño: The Gangs of Guatemala City and the Politics of Death (Duke University … Continue reading
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Tagged Guatemala, History Department, Latin America
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