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The Department of Sociology at UGA is home to excellent teachers and productive scholars engaged in interdisciplinary and collaborative sociological research
Just published! Congratulations to Dr. Justine Tinkler on her new co-authored paper titled "Enacting Equality in Organizations: How Facilitating a Prosocial Bystander Intervention Curriculum Turned Engineering Faculty Members into Agents of Change"
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December 9, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Just published! Congratulations to Dr. Justine Tinkler on her new co-authored paper titled "Enacting Equality in Organizations: How Facilitating a Prosocial Bystander Intervention Curriculum Turned Engineering Faculty Members into Agents of Change"
doi.org/10.1177/2378...
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Please join Dr. Anna Rogers and others taking part in a domestic violence awareness panel on Monday, October 27th at 7:30PM in MLC Room 250.
October 22, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Please join Dr. Anna Rogers and others taking part in a domestic violence awareness panel on Monday, October 27th at 7:30PM in MLC Room 250.
More overseas adventures with UGA at Oxford!
October 6, 2025 at 5:08 PM
More overseas adventures with UGA at Oxford!
New Publication Alert!
Congratulations to Dr. Vanessa Gonlin and PhD candidates Chelsey Adams and Brittany Belser on their recent publications!
Congratulations to Dr. Vanessa Gonlin and PhD candidates Chelsey Adams and Brittany Belser on their recent publications!
October 3, 2025 at 2:02 PM
New Publication Alert!
Congratulations to Dr. Vanessa Gonlin and PhD candidates Chelsey Adams and Brittany Belser on their recent publications!
Congratulations to Dr. Vanessa Gonlin and PhD candidates Chelsey Adams and Brittany Belser on their recent publications!
Welcome back everyone! We look forward to another great year of academic success and growth by our students! We are here to support your journey and help you reach your goals. Go Dawgs! 🐶 ❤️🖤
August 13, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Welcome back everyone! We look forward to another great year of academic success and growth by our students! We are here to support your journey and help you reach your goals. Go Dawgs! 🐶 ❤️🖤
🎉Congratulations🎉 to Dr. Tenshi Kawashima on accepting a position as a Post-Doctoral Associate at New York University Abu Dhabi, a school of New York University in the United Arab Emirates. It is a two-year appointment with the possibility of renewal. Congratulations and best wishes, Dr. Kawashima!
July 30, 2025 at 2:33 PM
🎉Congratulations🎉 to Dr. Tenshi Kawashima on accepting a position as a Post-Doctoral Associate at New York University Abu Dhabi, a school of New York University in the United Arab Emirates. It is a two-year appointment with the possibility of renewal. Congratulations and best wishes, Dr. Kawashima!
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July 30, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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July 25, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Follow us on all the socials to keep up with all the great things going on with the Department. Discover more about our award-winning faculty and students, well-known guest speakers from other universities, exciting student activities, and more!
Department Head & Marienthal Professor, Dr. William Pridemore, recently published an article with Dr. Guillermo Escano and Dr. David McDowall examining the relative impact of get-tough laws and gang truces on homicide rates in El Salvador.
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Mano Dura v. Uneasy Peace in El Salvador: Effects of Tough-on-Crime and Gang Truce Policies in the Former Murder Capital of the World
Abstract. Until recently, El Salvador had one of the world’s highest homicide rates, largely driven by criminal groups. Since 2003, the government attempte
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July 22, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Department Head & Marienthal Professor, Dr. William Pridemore, recently published an article with Dr. Guillermo Escano and Dr. David McDowall examining the relative impact of get-tough laws and gang truces on homicide rates in El Salvador.
@guillermo-escano.bsky.social
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📣New publication alert!📣
What drives rule-breaking or withdrawal from supportive resources after prison? In an ethnographic study published in Criminology, Gillian Slee demonstrates how both everyday indignities and people’s desire for social belonging shape outcomes for individuals on parole.
What drives rule-breaking or withdrawal from supportive resources after prison? In an ethnographic study published in Criminology, Gillian Slee demonstrates how both everyday indignities and people’s desire for social belonging shape outcomes for individuals on parole.
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July 17, 2025 at 4:50 PM
📣New publication alert!📣
What drives rule-breaking or withdrawal from supportive resources after prison? In an ethnographic study published in Criminology, Gillian Slee demonstrates how both everyday indignities and people’s desire for social belonging shape outcomes for individuals on parole.
What drives rule-breaking or withdrawal from supportive resources after prison? In an ethnographic study published in Criminology, Gillian Slee demonstrates how both everyday indignities and people’s desire for social belonging shape outcomes for individuals on parole.
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Learn about the University of Georgia’s Sociology Department @ugasociology.bsky.social & other sociology departments in the 2025 ASA Guide to Graduate Departments of Sociology. Now completely online and free for ASA members. Also available for a fee to nonmembers. https://bit.ly/ASAGradGuide
July 2, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Learn about the University of Georgia’s Sociology Department @ugasociology.bsky.social & other sociology departments in the 2025 ASA Guide to Graduate Departments of Sociology. Now completely online and free for ASA members. Also available for a fee to nonmembers. https://bit.ly/ASAGradGuide
Congratulations to Dr. Peng Huang on his newly published paper "Endogenous competition and the underrealized reproduction of infectious diseases" in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS).
June 10, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Congratulations to Dr. Peng Huang on his newly published paper "Endogenous competition and the underrealized reproduction of infectious diseases" in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS).
Dr. Anna Rogers (2024 Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award and Sandy Beaver Excellence in Teaching Award winner) was recently interviewed by UGA's newspaper, The Red & Black, for their incoming freshman issue on her top 10 tricks for new students at UGA.
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10 tips for new students from a UGA professor
Dr. Anna S. Rogers, a senior lecturer in the University of Georgia’s Department of Sociology and a contributor to the Criminal Justice Program, was awarded with both the 2024 Franklin
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June 6, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Dr. Anna Rogers (2024 Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award and Sandy Beaver Excellence in Teaching Award winner) was recently interviewed by UGA's newspaper, The Red & Black, for their incoming freshman issue on her top 10 tricks for new students at UGA.
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Congratulations to Dr. Peng Huang! He is the recipient of this year’s Outstanding Article Publication Award from ASA’s Section on Mathematical Sociology, and Honorable Mention for the James S. Coleman Outstanding Article Award from ASA's Decision-Making, Social Networks, and Society Section.
June 5, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Congratulations to Dr. Peng Huang! He is the recipient of this year’s Outstanding Article Publication Award from ASA’s Section on Mathematical Sociology, and Honorable Mention for the James S. Coleman Outstanding Article Award from ASA's Decision-Making, Social Networks, and Society Section.
UGA Sociology Department Head and Marienthal Professor, William Pridemore, is spending June at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security, and Law in Freiburg, Germany, as their Department of Criminology’s inaugural Barbara Huber Scholar where he will give two invited presentations.
June 5, 2025 at 12:39 PM
UGA Sociology Department Head and Marienthal Professor, William Pridemore, is spending June at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security, and Law in Freiburg, Germany, as their Department of Criminology’s inaugural Barbara Huber Scholar where he will give two invited presentations.
We are excited to announce Brittany Belser and Keely Fox as recipients of UGA Graduate School fellowships!
Brittany has been selected to receive the 2025-26 Phelps-Stokes Graduate Fellowship and Keely is the recipient of a Mary Erlanger Graduate Fellowship.
Brittany has been selected to receive the 2025-26 Phelps-Stokes Graduate Fellowship and Keely is the recipient of a Mary Erlanger Graduate Fellowship.
May 16, 2025 at 2:55 PM
We are excited to announce Brittany Belser and Keely Fox as recipients of UGA Graduate School fellowships!
Brittany has been selected to receive the 2025-26 Phelps-Stokes Graduate Fellowship and Keely is the recipient of a Mary Erlanger Graduate Fellowship.
Brittany has been selected to receive the 2025-26 Phelps-Stokes Graduate Fellowship and Keely is the recipient of a Mary Erlanger Graduate Fellowship.
Congratulations to Chelsey Adams, Shelby Clark, Makeiva Jenkins and Stephanie Hanus-Knapp as recipients of graduate student teaching awards from the UGA Graduate School and the Center for Teaching and Learning. We are proud of the work they (and all our graduate students) do in serving UGA students!
April 30, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Congratulations to Chelsey Adams, Shelby Clark, Makeiva Jenkins and Stephanie Hanus-Knapp as recipients of graduate student teaching awards from the UGA Graduate School and the Center for Teaching and Learning. We are proud of the work they (and all our graduate students) do in serving UGA students!
Behind the whip cream is Dr. Otto at Shop With A Bulldawg's “Pie the Stars of UGA” fundraiser event. SWAB is a student-run 501(c)(3) organization that raises money to take Athens-Clarke County children holiday shopping with UGA students during their special event day in the Fall.
April 30, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Behind the whip cream is Dr. Otto at Shop With A Bulldawg's “Pie the Stars of UGA” fundraiser event. SWAB is a student-run 501(c)(3) organization that raises money to take Athens-Clarke County children holiday shopping with UGA students during their special event day in the Fall.
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April 30, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Congratulations to UGA Sociology undergraduate student Zaynah Amir on her research presentation at the Southeastern Undergraduate Sociology Symposium, co-sponsored by Emory University and Morehouse College.
April 15, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Congratulations to UGA Sociology undergraduate student Zaynah Amir on her research presentation at the Southeastern Undergraduate Sociology Symposium, co-sponsored by Emory University and Morehouse College.
Congratulations to Dr. Shannon (Sociology and Criminal Justice Studies) on being awarded a grant from the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences Multidisciplinary Seed Grant Program for funding to develop a new course, Sociology of Prisons (SOCI 4510/6510).
April 9, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Congratulations to Dr. Shannon (Sociology and Criminal Justice Studies) on being awarded a grant from the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences Multidisciplinary Seed Grant Program for funding to develop a new course, Sociology of Prisons (SOCI 4510/6510).
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April 9, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Congratulations to Sociology major (plus Psychology and Women's Studies!) Rayna J. Carter on winning the President’s Fulfilling the Dream Award as well as the 2025 Student Leader of the Year award from the Office of Engagement, Leadership, and Service. Keep up the good work Rayna!
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Rayna Carter received the President’s Fulfilling the Dream Award at the 21st Martin Luther King Jr. Freedom Breakfast.
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April 8, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Congratulations to Sociology major (plus Psychology and Women's Studies!) Rayna J. Carter on winning the President’s Fulfilling the Dream Award as well as the 2025 Student Leader of the Year award from the Office of Engagement, Leadership, and Service. Keep up the good work Rayna!
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Dr. Sarah Shannon is first-author on a new article published in Criminology: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.....
Interdisciplinary in scope, the journal publishes articles that advance the theoretical and research agenda of criminology and criminal justice.
Interdisciplinary in scope, the journal publishes articles that advance the theoretical and research agenda of criminology and criminal justice.
March 24, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Dr. Sarah Shannon is first-author on a new article published in Criminology: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.....
Interdisciplinary in scope, the journal publishes articles that advance the theoretical and research agenda of criminology and criminal justice.
Interdisciplinary in scope, the journal publishes articles that advance the theoretical and research agenda of criminology and criminal justice.