This past weekend, May 3^rd and 4^th, the Center for the Study of Social Movements hosted the 7^th annual John D. McCarthy Lifetime Achievement in the Scholarship of Social Movements and Collective Behavior award lecture and presentation banquet as well as the 4^th annual Young Scholars in Social Movements Conference. This year’s McCarthy award was presented to David Snow, a distinguished professor at the University of California, Irvine, for his extraordinary achievements in over three decades of social movement research and for the role that he has played in mentoring generations of scholars both within and outside of his own department.…

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