C. Shawn McGuffey

Ph.D., Sociology
University of Massachusetts, Amherst (With Distinction), 2005

B.A., Majors: Anthropology and Sociology;
Minors: Multicultural Studies and Women's Studies
Transylvania University (With Honors), 1998

Childhood, Family, Race/Class/Gender, Qualitative Methods, Social Psychology, Trauma

McGuffey, C. Shawn. 2005. "Engendering Trauma: Race, Class and Gender Reaffirmation after Child Sexual Abuse." Gender & Society 19 (5): 621-643.
McGuffey, C. Shawn and B. Lindsay Rich. 2001. "Playing in the Gender Transgression Zone: Race, Class, and Hegemonic Masculinity in Middle Childhood." In Men's Lives (5th edition), edited by M. Kimmel and M. Messner. Allyn and Bacon.

Sally Hacker Award, "Engendering Trauma: Race, Class, and Gender Reaffirmation after Child Sexual Abuse."
Sex and Gender Section of the American Sociological Association, 2006
Teaching Excellence Award, Division of Continuing Education
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2004
Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award
Department of Sociology, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 2002
Teaching Excellence Award, Division of Continuing Education
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2002.

“How Sexuality Can Threaten Gender and Racial Identities.” Associaiton of Black Sociologists, Montreal, Canada, 2006
“How Parents Use Gender and Racial Concepts to Raise Sexually Abused Boys.” Society for the Study of Social Problems, Montreal, Canada, 2006
"Blaming Mothers: Gender, Race and the Meaning of Parenthood after Child Sexual Abuse." American Sociological Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2005
"Racing Gender or Gendering Race? Theorizing Empirical Intersectional Research" (and Amy C. Wilkins). American Sociological Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2005

"Saving Masculinity: Sexual Threat, Gender Reaffirmation, and Racial Appraisals After Child Sexual Abuse." Center for Children and Childhood Studies at Rutgers University, Camden, New Jersey, 2005
"Interviewing: Techniques and Practices." Institute for Community Research. Hartford, Connecticut, 2003
" 'Cita's World' and Representations of Blackness." Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, 2003

U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs
National Criminal Justice Reference Service, 2006
Maryland Coalition Against Sexual Abuse (MCASA)
Research on child sexual abuse feature on Frontline, 2006