faculty

 

Terry Boychuk, Associate Professor and Chair
BA Carleton College 1986, MA Princeton University 1990, PhD Princeton University 1994

Terry Boychuk took his undergraduate studies in Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton College and received his PhD in Sociology from Princeton University. Before joining the faculty at Macalester College in 1996, Professor Boychuk directed the Health Policy Certificate Program at the Center for Health Policy Research Education at Duke University. Professor Boychuk has taught a wide range of courses that reflect his research interests in the historical development of social policies: Affirmative Action Policy, American Social Policy, Comparative Health Systems, Medical Sociology, Nonprofit Organizations, Politics of Health Policy, and Sociology of Philanthropy. He commonly leads sections of Introduction to Sociology each year and has taught the department’s quantitative methodology class, Science and Social Inquiry. He has recently led the Senior Seminar in Sociology, the capstone experience for department majors. Professor Boychuk also teaches Comparative-Historical Sociology, one of the three methods course offered in sociology. His doctoral and postdoctoral research on the comparative history of American and Canadian health policy was published as The Making and Meaning of Hospital Policy in the United States and Canada, appearing in 1999 under the imprint of the University of Michigan Press. More recently Professor Boychuk has devoted his attention to a study of the historical origins of the legal frameworks that define the nature and scope of the charitable nonprofit sector in the UK, US, and the British Commonwealth.