Boston College

On Loving in Order to Know: Marion and Lonergan on Religious Experience

Abstract In what follows, I consider Lonergan's account of the nature of religious experience in comparison with the work of contemporary phenomenologist and philosopher of religion Jean‐Luc Marion, arguing that despite important differences in philosophical method both authors c...

Harassment and structural violence against abortion providers in Colombia: A national mixed‐methods study

OBJECTIVE: To examine the discrepancy between a single-item harassment screening and a behaviorally anchored stigma scale among Colombian physicians who provide voluntary termination of pregnancy (VTP), and to explore how providers who do not identify as victims describe their ex...

Sanmao in Spain: identity, alterity, and marginality of the self and the other in Diarios de las Canarias

This chapter analyzes texts written about Spain by bestselling Taiwanese author Sanmao, the pseudonym of Chen Maoping (1943–1991), who was and continues to be idolized throughout Asia for her 1970s accounts of travel through and life in Spanish territories (the colony of Spanish...

Economies of Scale to Consumption in Collective Households

ABSTRACT Browning et al. (2013) model collective‐household economies of scale in goods consumption by having each good be partly shared, instead of each good being public or private. We modify their model to achieve simple point identification and estimation of the economies of s...

Scalable, Simple, and Versatile Encapsulation of 2D Materials and Devices

Abstract Air-sensitive 2D materials present fundamental challenges for device integration. Encapsulation is required to preserve intrinsic properties, yet conventional strategies require complicated fabrication workflows and fail with thicker flakes. We demonstrate that electron-...

Employee Activism, Then and Now

We review research on employee activism, with particular attention to developments over the past decade, and identify avenues for future research that reflect the evolving nature of the phenomenon. We first define employee activism and distinguish it from related forms of employe...

Light-controlled van der Waals tunnel junctions: Mechanisms, architectures, functionalities, and opportunities

The phenomenon of electron tunneling has long been central to quantum transport and continues to provide a powerful framework for understanding and controlling electronic processes in solids. When combined with optical excitation, tunneling becomes a particularly rich platform fo...

Optimal Taxation of Inflation

This paper analyzes the effectiveness of a tax on inflation policy (TIP), which would require firms to pay a tax proportional to the increase in their prices or wages, in stabilizing inflation. We show that TIP would effectively correct externalities in firms' pricing decisions,...

“Gender-based violence is the last thing they will think about”: a qualitative study on multilevel factors affecting gender-based violence screening and response in HIV care, Uganda, 2023

Uganda’s Ministry of Health (MOH) adopted the World Health Organization’s guidelines to incorporate routine gender-based violence (GBV) screening, counseling, and referrals in health care settings, including HIV care; however, considerable implementation barriers exist. This stud...

The Henrietta Lacks Case: Ongoing Litigation Seeks Closure

The litigation brought by the Estate of Henrietta Lacks against Thermo Fisher Scientific, Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical, and Novartis Pharmaceuticals reframes benefit-sharing from voluntary institutional ethics into an enforceable legal duty. By pleading a single equitable claim - un...

Navigating Equity and Compliance for Students Experiencing Homelessness: A Charter School’s McKinney-Vento Dilemma

This case explores the leadership dilemma faced by Ms. Patterson, Executive Director of Harbor Academy, a two-campus charter school in a postindustrial New England city. After a critical news article highlights the school’s underidentification of students experiencing homelessnes...

Disability Representation in Social and Personality Psychology Research: A State-of-the-Art Review

We conducted a systematic state-of-the-art review examining disability representation of three flagship social and personality psychology journals between 2017 and 2022. First, we examined the 2,343 articles published in that time frame and found that 192 (8.19%) of them used at...

Numerical modeling of aeolian-dune development in carbonate island settings: exploring last interglacial environmental conditions on coastal dune morphology in The Bahamas and Turks and Caicos

Abstract This paper presents an adaptation to the Aeolian Surface Model (ASM) framework, modified to account for variable surface properties and sediment transport limitations present in coastal carbonate-dune environments. The model simulates the formation of three fossilized du...

Decoding a Decade of Systems Change Guidance, 2014–2025: Building a Shared Framework for Collaboration

ABSTRACT Systems change is gaining momentum across sectors as a powerful way to tackle today's most complex social and environmental challenges. Over the past decade, philanthropic, government, finance, development, nonprofit and research groups have published a wide range of pra...

Rationales for the Internationalization of Higher Education: Bridging the Disconnect Between Strategy and Practice

In this paper we address the gap in understanding how rationales for internationalization at the individual micro-level align or not with the strategies adopted at the organizational macro-level. By capturing the ‘why's’ inherent in existing macro-level and micro-level rationales...

Student Homelessness and Urban Charter Schools: Leadership Logics and the McKinney-Vento Liaison Role

This study investigates how charter schools in California, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island interpret and operationalize the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (MVA) liaison role, which mandates schools to identify and support students experiencing homelessness. Using a mixed-...

Partisans misperceive and are influenced by dynamic norms

Abstract Perceptions of social norms, and how those norms change over time, play a central role in shaping how people understand and respond to political divides. We developed and iteratively refined dynamic‐norm messages about bipartisan attitude change to reduce divisive outpar...

Inscriptions in non-Euclidean Geometries

Abstract We show how inscription problems in the plane can be generalised to Riemannian surfaces of constant curvature. We then use ideas from symplectic and Riemannian geometry to prove these generalised versions for smooth Jordan curves in the hyperbolic plane, and we prove a r...

From Conflict to Coordination: Children as Strategic Problem Solvers in Social Dilemmas

Human cooperation requires resolving social dilemmas—situations in which individual interests conflict with what is best for the group. A growing body of work has begun to explore how children develop and implement solutions to these conflicts, shedding new light on the developme...

Outgroup representation in close networks shows a nonlinear association with mental well-being

Building on research linking social diversity to well-being, we examined how racial outgroup representation in individuals’ close social networks relates to mental well-being during two periods of heightened societal stress: the COVID-19 pandemic and a polarized election period....