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C. Shawn McGuffey

Professor

Department

Sociology

Profile

C. Shawn McGuffey, Ph.D., is Professor of Sociology and past Director of African & African Diaspora Studies at 艾可直播 College.听 A native of Lexington, Kentucky, Dr. McGuffey鈥檚 professional work primarily highlights how race, gender, sexuality and social class both constrain and create the choices survivors pursue in the aftermath of trauma in the U.S. and throughout the African Diaspora.听 Two of his current projects focus on sexual trauma. One examines how gender, sexuality, and race shape parental responses to child sexual abuse; and the other investigates the social psychology of sexual assault survivors in the U.S., Ghana, South Africa, and Rwanda. His most recent project examines Black and feminist geographies. He has also served on the Harassment Committee of the American Sociological Association and the Eastern Sociological Society鈥檚 Code of Conduct Committee 鈥 both charged with developing policies around various forms of harassment.

Dr. McGuffey鈥檚 scholarship has been recognized by multiple academic associations. He is the recipient of four awards from three different sections of the American Sociological Association. The Society for the Study of Social Problems honored him with the Kimberl茅 Crenshaw Award in 2016 and in 2022 with the Arlene Kaplan Daniels Award for the best article on women and social justice. In 2022 he also received the Distinguished Publication Award from the Association for Women in Psychology. In 2023 he received the Best Article Award from the Southeastern Division of the American Association of Geographers. The Ford Foundation, Black Rape Survivors Project, a Research Incentive Grant, and the Institute for Liberal Arts have supported his research. He has given invited lectures at the Center for Children and Childhood Studies at Rutgers University, Harvard University, MIT, and the University of the Western Cape in South Africa.

In 艾可直播 he has led and served on the boards of multiple non-profits that address issues of racial justice and LGBT rights, domestic violence, and youth empowerment; and has been a contributor to Basic Black on WGBH public television. Dr. McGuffey has also written op-ed and guest blog essays on , , , the , and .听

Dr. McGuffey enjoys practicing the art of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and competitive eating competitions. Pies and cupcakes remain his gastronomic specialties.听 Since the viral pandemic, he cultivates joy by making time for daily meditation, search and rescue training with one of his rescue dogs (trailing/tracking/air scenting), discovering the talents of his second rescue dog, and baking pies while listening to old school hip hop and R & B.

Publications

  • 2023 Best Article Award Winner
    Southeastern Division of the American Association of Geographers

  • 2022 Arlene Kaplan Daniels Award Winner for best article on women and social justice聽
    Society for the Study of Social Problems

  • 2022 Distinguished Publication Award Winner
    Association for Women in Psychology

  • 2021 Distinguished Article Award Honorable Mention聽
    Race, Gender, & Class Section of the American Sociological Association

and Tanya L. Sharpe.

  • 2016 Distinguished Article Award Winner
    Race, Gender, & Class Section of the American Sociological Association

鈥淏lacks and Racial Appraisals: Gender, Race and Intra-racial Rape.鈥澛(2010). Black Sexualities: Probing Powers, Passions, Practices and Policies, edited by Juan Battle and Sandra Barnes. Rutgers University Press.

  • 2009 Best Article Award Winner
    Sexualities Section of the American Sociological Association

  • 2006 Sally Hacker Award Winner
    Sex and Gender Section of the American Sociological Association

and B. Lindsay Rich.