Department of Sociology
On a more personal note, she and her husband (Professor, Sociology at the University of Notre Dame) took a two-week road trip to Glacier to celebrate their 40th wedding anniversary. So far, so good!
Dr. Joseph M Palacios
SUMMER 2007
Professor Joseph Palacios completed his second year as the Director of the Georgetown Community Based-Learning Summer Program at Universidad Alberto Hurtado in Santiago, Chile. This is a two month program of intensive Spanish instruction, study of Chilean culture and political society, and community-based service and research among Santiago's poor and working classes. Professor Palacios teaches a course called Religion and Society in Latin America and has begun research on Chilean civil religion and the formation of future civil society and political leaders.
In July 2007 the University of Chicago Press released Professor Palacios's new book, The Catholic Social Imagination: Activism and the Just Society in Mexico and the United States. The book is a comparative study of the Mexican and U.S. Catholic Church and the shaping and implementation of the church's social doctrine. It is based on four years of ethnographic research, interviewing, and event analyses in the two countries. A primary finding is that while Mexicans have a Catholic culture they have minimal institutional structures and strategies in the church and society to actually implement social justice goods, whereas in the United States Catholics are not highly conscious of their church's social doctrine they implement a wide variety of social justice goods in an open civil society and in the social institutions and programs of the American church. In September Professor Palacios had a book launch at the Georgetown University Bookstore.
FALL 2007
In December 2007 Professor Palacios received notice that he was a finalist for the 2008-2009 Fulbright Fellowships. He plans to do ethnographic research and interviewing among young Chilean leaders in civil society and politics, as well as teach a course on Religion and Society in the United States at Universidad de Santiago's doctoral program in American Studies. This project is part of an overall book project entitled Civil Religions in Latin America: From Democracy, Dictatorship, and Transition Towards Pluralistic Democratic Cultures.
Professor Joseph Palacios of the Department of Sociology and his Community-Based Learning program in Santiago, Chile, were featured in the most recent issue of International Educator. This magazine, the official publication of NAFSA: Association of International Educators, is distributed and read around the world by university administrators and faculty members alike. The cover article of the Jan/Feb 2008 issue focuses on the growing popularity of international programs that pair outside-the-classroom volunteerism and community service with in-the-classroom courses on culture and development topics. Professor Palacios's program at the Universidad Alberto Hurtado in Santiago is designed to combine Georgetown students' interests in having meaningful international educational experiences with making a difference in a community in need. The article, "Lending a Helping Hand," can be accessed by visiting the NAFSA - International Educator website and then clicking on the "Read Article" link here for the Cover Story heading.
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