Mary Godwyn

Academic Division: History & SocietyProfessor Godwyn teaches introductory and advanced courses in Sociology, Women''s Studies, Gender Studies, and the Nature and Environment Foundation course. She has lectured at Harvard University and taught at Brandeis University and Lasell College, where she was also the Director of the Donahue Institute for Public Values. Professor Godwyn focuses on social theory as it applies to issues of inequality. Within the field of sociology, her areas of expertise include Critical and Classical theory, Feminist Theory, Ethics and Business Ethics, Diversity and Inclusion, and the Sociology of Entrepreneurship. She has published in journals such as Symbolic Interaction, Current Perspectives in Social Theory, Gender and Management, and the Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship. In 2008, her business ethics case, Hugh Connerty and Hooters: What is Successful Entrepreneurship? won the Dark Side Case Competition sponsored by the Critical Management Studies Interest Group and the Management Education Division of the Academy of Management. In 2012, Professor Godwyn was given the Nan Langowitz Women Who Make a Difference Award at Babson College, and in 2013, she was the recipient of the Women’s Leadership Award, World Corporate Social Responsibility Congress in Mumbai, India. She has also published three books: Minority Women Entrepreneurs: How Outsider Status can Lead to Better Business Practices, coauthored with Donna Stoddard, DBA (Stanford University Press and Greenleaf Publishing, 2011), Sociology of Organizations: Structures and Relationships co-edited with Jody Hoffer Gittel, PhD (Sage Publications, Inc., 2012) and Ethics and Diversity in Business Management Education: A Sociological Study with International Scope (Springer-Verlag, 2015).

Academic Degrees

• Ph D, Brandeis University
• MA, Brandeis University
• BA, Wellesley College

Academic Interests

Critical and Classical Social Theory; Gender; Sociology of Entrepreneurship

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Awards & Honors

2015 - Babson Research Scholar Award, Babson College

2015 - Babson Faculty Research Fund Award, Babson College

2014 - Best Presentation Award, Global Corporate Governance Institute, First Annual Conference, 14-15 August 2014, University of Surrey, Guildford, U.K., Global Corporate Governance

2013 - Babson Faculty Research Fund Award, Babson College

2013 - Women''s Leadership Award, World CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) Congress, Mumbai, India.

2012 - Nan Langowitz Women Who Make a Difference Award, Babson College

2011 - Babson Faculty Research Fund Award, Babson College

2009 - Outstanding Reviewer, Critical Management Division, Academy of Management

2008 - Minority Voices in Entrepreneurship: Democratization of Influence and Resources, Committee for a Diverse Community at Babson College

2008 - Winner of the “Dark Side Case Competition, Critical Management Studies Interest Group and the Management Education Division of the Academy of Management

2007 - Babson Faculty Research Fund Award

2006 - sub-award funding to integrate ethics , Harold Geneen Foundation

2005 - Babson College Board of Research Summer Stipend

2005 - sub-award funding , Coleman Foundation for research

2004 - sub-award funding , Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

2003 - Babson College Board of Research Summer Stipend

2001 - Babson College Board of Research Summer Stipend

1999 - Brandeis Outstanding Teaching Award

1995 - Brandeis Teaching Fellowships