The Center for the Study of Social Movements and Social Change

Presents a lecture by distinguished sociologist

John D. McCarthy

Penn State University

“From Theory to Data and Back: The Evolution of Social Movement Research in the Last Decades of the 20th Century”

Saturday May 5^th

4:00 p.m.

Hesburgh Center Auditorium

John D. McCarthy is the first recipient of the John D. McCarthy Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Scholarship of Social Movements and Collective Behavior. The award honors scholars who have made outstanding contributions to the scholarly literature concerned with social movements, protest, collective violence, riots, and other kind of collective behavior over the course of his or her career.