Department of Sociology

Sociology at the University of Georgia

Sociology faculty at the University of Georgia are excellent teachers and productive scholars, who have won the University’s highest teaching and research awards, received major grants, and published their research in the top journals and presses. We embrace a variety of research methodologies, including ethnography, experiments, and secondary data analysis. This research is both interdisciplinary and collaborative: many of our faculty are affiliated with other units on campus and work closely with graduate students.

Apr24

William Finlay has been awarded the Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professorship, UGA's highest teaching award. He is the fifth Sociology faculty member since 1999 to receive this award.

Apr24

Congratulations to Tiffani Everett, who has accepted a position at Arkansas Tech University as an assistant professor in the Department of Behavioral Sciences, and to Daniel Shank, who has accepted a postdoctoral fellowship in the Sociology and Social Work department at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Feb27

The Department of Sociology is very pleased to welcome its newest faculty member, Dr. Justine Tinkler, who will be joining the department in August 2012. Justine, who has a Ph.D. In Sociology from Stanford University, is currently an assistant professor at Louisiana State University.

Feb20

Congratulations to our Ph.D. graduate, Bonnie Semora, Assistant Professor, Dalton State College.

Jan15

Ron Simons is first author of an article, "Social Environment, Genes, and Aggression," in the December 2011 issue of the American Sociological Review. One of his co-authors is Sociology graduate student, Man Kit (Karlo) Lei.