Sociologist Braulio Munoz Honored for Work of Historical Fiction
Sociologist Braulio Muñoz
Honored for Work of Historical Fiction
by Alisa Giardinelli
06/11/2009
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Braulio Muñoz, Centennial Professor of Sociology, received an International Latino Book Award this month for his "elegiac and piercing" (Booklist) novel Alejandro and the Fishermen of Tancay (2008).
Muñoz is a noted social theorist and social philosopher with special expertise in contemporary social thought and culture and the sociology and culture of Latin America. Other works include The Peruvian Notebooks (2006), a novel, and Tensions in Social Theory: Groundwork for a Future Moral Sociology, Presidential Series on Ethics and Values (1993).