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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
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.
Sociology faculty member Vanessa Gonlin, Performance Studies graduate student Alexis Lygoumenos in Bath for the Jane Austen Festival.
October 6, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Sociology faculty member Vanessa Gonlin, Performance Studies graduate student Alexis Lygoumenos in Bath for the Jane Austen Festival.
UGA at Oxford students on a trip to Bath, UK to celebrate the Jane Austen Festival.
October 6, 2025 at 5:08 PM
UGA at Oxford students on a trip to Bath, UK to celebrate the Jane Austen Festival.
Sociology faculty member Vanessa Gonlin, Performance Studies graduate student Alexis Lygoumenos, and UGA alum Jason Hafford with his wife Priya at London Dawgs UGA game watching networking event. Location: London, UK
October 6, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Sociology faculty member Vanessa Gonlin, Performance Studies graduate student Alexis Lygoumenos, and UGA alum Jason Hafford with his wife Priya at London Dawgs UGA game watching networking event. Location: London, UK
Gonlin, Vanessa, Chelsey Adams, and Elaysha Brown. Forth. “‘My favorite is the assumption of internalized racism’: Black Women, Racial Boundaries, and Interracial Relationships.” Ethnic and Racial Studies. doi.org/10.1080/0141...
October 3, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Gonlin, Vanessa, Chelsey Adams, and Elaysha Brown. Forth. “‘My favorite is the assumption of internalized racism’: Black Women, Racial Boundaries, and Interracial Relationships.” Ethnic and Racial Studies. doi.org/10.1080/0141...
Gonlin, Vanessa and Brittany Belser. 2025. “‘He was socialized to believe that it’s normal’: Gendered Racism in Interracial Relationships between Black Women and White Men.” Social Problems. doi.org/10.1093/socp....
October 3, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Gonlin, Vanessa and Brittany Belser. 2025. “‘He was socialized to believe that it’s normal’: Gendered Racism in Interracial Relationships between Black Women and White Men.” Social Problems. doi.org/10.1093/socp....
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!
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!
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!
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).
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.
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).
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.
It is Awards Season! Dr. Jim Coverdill has been selected as the recipient of the 2025 Lothar Tresp Outstanding Honors Professor Award. This award is presented by the Morehead Honors College and recognizes his superior teaching and dedication to Honors students. Congratulations Dr. Coverdill!
March 13, 2025 at 3:50 PM
It is Awards Season! Dr. Jim Coverdill has been selected as the recipient of the 2025 Lothar Tresp Outstanding Honors Professor Award. This award is presented by the Morehead Honors College and recognizes his superior teaching and dedication to Honors students. Congratulations Dr. Coverdill!
Please join and help us welcome Dr. Jenny L. Davis from Vanderbilt University on Wednesday, March 12 at 3:15PM in Miller Learning Center Room 350 for her presentation "Algorithmic Reparation: From Fairness to Redress".
March 10, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Please join and help us welcome Dr. Jenny L. Davis from Vanderbilt University on Wednesday, March 12 at 3:15PM in Miller Learning Center Room 350 for her presentation "Algorithmic Reparation: From Fairness to Redress".
Department Head and Franklin Professor of Sociology, William Pridemore, is co-author on a newly published article in Justice Quarterly, one of two flagship journals in the field of criminology. You can read it here: www.tandfonline.com/.../10.../07...
March 7, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Department Head and Franklin Professor of Sociology, William Pridemore, is co-author on a newly published article in Justice Quarterly, one of two flagship journals in the field of criminology. You can read it here: www.tandfonline.com/.../10.../07...
We would like to share that UGA Sociology's Dr. Sarah Shannon is the winner of this year’s Felton Jenkins, Jr. Hall of Fame Faculty Award for her sustained commitment and stellar contributions to teaching and student success.
March 5, 2025 at 4:00 PM
We would like to share that UGA Sociology's Dr. Sarah Shannon is the winner of this year’s Felton Jenkins, Jr. Hall of Fame Faculty Award for her sustained commitment and stellar contributions to teaching and student success.
We are excited to announce the addition of 3 new faculty members - Julia Thomas, Dr. Gillian Slee and Dr. Derick S. Baum. Please give them a warm welcome and a hearty "Go Dawgs!"
February 28, 2025 at 7:42 PM
We are excited to announce the addition of 3 new faculty members - Julia Thomas, Dr. Gillian Slee and Dr. Derick S. Baum. Please give them a warm welcome and a hearty "Go Dawgs!"
Dr. Pablo Lapegna will take part in the "Histories of Commodities & the Environment" Symposium at Emory University on February 28th. He is joined by social scienctists and historians for a program devoted to research and questions on environmental history and the history of commodities.
February 24, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Dr. Pablo Lapegna will take part in the "Histories of Commodities & the Environment" Symposium at Emory University on February 28th. He is joined by social scienctists and historians for a program devoted to research and questions on environmental history and the history of commodities.