{"id":7297,"date":"2026-10-07T16:46:26","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T20:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/academics\/faculty\/smcguffey\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T16:46:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T20:46:26","slug":"smcguffey","status":"publish","type":"faculty","link":"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/experiments\/faculty\/smcguffey\/","title":{"rendered":"McGuffey, Shawn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the Kenan Distinguished Visiting Professor, C. Shawn McGuffey comes to Transylvania from Boston College, where he is an associate professor of sociology and past director of African &amp; African diaspora studies. A native of Lexington, Kentucky, and a Transylvania alumnus, McGuffey\u2019s 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. His most recent projects examine Black LGBT political perspectives and Black feminist geographies of Kentucky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His award-winning research has appeared in Gender &amp; Society, Social Problems, Du Bois Review and Journal of Black Psychology. His research has been supported by the Ford Foundation, Black Rape Survivors Project, a Research Incentive Grant and the Institute for Liberal Arts. 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Boston, he has led and served on the boards of multiple nonprofits that address issues of racial justice and LGBT rights, domestic violence and youth empowerment. He has also served on the Harassment Committee of the American Sociological Association and the Eastern Sociological Society\u2019s Code of Conduct Committee \u2014 both charged with developing policies around various forms of harassment. He is also a member of the Planning Committee of the 2024 annual conference of the American Sociological Association.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A contributor to Basic Black on WGBH public television, McGuffey has also written op-ed and guest blog essays on Confederate monuments and white supremacy, hope and gratitude in the midst of cancer, hate crimes and the Orlando massacre, the George Zimmerman verdict and Bashir and the international criminal court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Outside of academia, McGuffey enjoys practicing the art of Brazilian jiu jitsu and competitive eating competitions. Pies and cupcakes remain his gastronomic specialties. 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&amp;B.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns faculty-accolades is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-7387b849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Academic History<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ph.D., Sociology, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 2005<br>B.A., Anthropology and Sociology, Transylvania University, 1998<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Awards and Honors<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Distinguished Publication Award, Association for Women in Psychology, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Arlene Kaplan Daniels Award for best article on women and social justice, Society for the Study of Social Problems, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Distinguished Article Award Honorable Mention, Race, Class and Gender section of the American Sociological Association, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kimberl\u00e9 Crenshaw Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems, 2016<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Distinguished Article Award, Race, Class and Gender section of the American Sociological Association, 2016<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Distinguished Achievement Award, Transylvania University, 2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Best Article Award, Sexualities section of the American Sociological Association, 2009<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sally Hacker Award for research excellence, Sex and Gender section of the American Sociological Association, 2006<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Professional Memberships<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">American Sociological Association<br>Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora<br>Association for Women in Psychology<br>Association of Black Psychologists<br>Association of Black Sociologists<br>Black Women\u2019s Studies Association<br>Eastern Sociological Society<br>Society for the Study of Social Problems<br>Sociologists for Women in Society<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Courses Taught at Transy<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Introduction to (Du Boisian) Sociology<br>African Diaspora Studies<br>Trauma, Culture, &amp; Coping<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Areas of Research and Specialization<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sexuality and trauma<br>Race, gender and social class<br>Black LGBT political perspectives<br>Black feminist geographies of Kentucky<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Recent Publications<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cRape Appraisals: Class Mobility, Social Geography, and Sexual Morality Tales in Ghana, South Africa, and Rwanda.\u201d 2021. Journal of Black Psychology 47(6): 401-444.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIntersectionality, Cognition, Disclosure and Black LGBT Views on Civil Rights and Marriage Equality: Is Gay the New Black?\u201d 2018. Du Bois Review 15(2): 441-465.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cRacial Appraisal: An Integrated Cultural and Structural Response to African American Experiences with Violent Trauma.\u201d 2015. Journal of Sociology and Social Work 3(2): 55-61.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cRape and Racial Appraisals: Culture, Intersectionality and Black Women\u2019s Accounts of Sexual Assault.\u201d 2013. Du Bois Review 10(1): 109-130.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSaving Masculinity: Gender Reaffirmation, Sexuality, Race and Parental Responses to Male Child Sexual Abuse.\u201d 2008. Social Problems 55 (2): 216-237.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cEngendering Trauma: Race, Class and Gender Reaffirmation after Child Sexual Abuse.\u201d 2005. Gender &amp; Society 19 (5): 621-643.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":7360,"template":"","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"Relevanssi image attachment filter Relevanssi index exclude","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"academic_division":[55,81],"class_list":["post-7297","faculty","type-faculty","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.5 (Yoast SEO v28.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>McGuffey, Shawn - Website Experiments<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/experiments\/faculty\/smcguffey\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"McGuffey, Shawn\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"As the Kenan Distinguished Visiting Professor, C. 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