Colloquia

Please join the Sociology Department in presenting a job talk by Doctoral candidate Chelsey Adams entitled: “Black-White Differences in Wealth, Health, and Healthcare Access in the Rural South.” Chelsey currently teaches SOCI 3000 Sociology in Film.

Please join the Sociology Department in presenting a job talk by Doctoral candidate Krysten Long entitled: “Color Coded: Caricatures, Myths, Tropes, and Differentiations in Stereotypes of Black Women Based on Skin Tone in the United States.” Krysten currently teaches SOCI 3590 Qualitative Methods and SOCI 3650 Colorism and Hairism in Communities of Color.

Please join the Sociology Department in presenting a job talk by Doctoral candidate Tenshi Kawashima entitled:  "The Role of Work Identity in Distributive Justice Processes." Tenshi currently teaches SOCI 3730 Social Psychology.

Please join the Sociology Department in presenting a job talk by Doctoral candidate Kylie Smith entitled: “Gaming, Masculinities, and Identity Threat.” 

Please join the Sociology Department in presenting a job talk by Doctoral candidate Makeiva Jenkins entitled: “Creating Counternarratives: Single Stay-at-Home Mothers (SAHMs), Entrepreneurship, and Challenging Cultural Understandings.”

This talk tells the story of American High, a school characterized by acceptance, connection, and kindness. But it’s also a place where race, class, gender and sexual inequalities are narrowly understood as problems of individual merit, meanness, effort, or emotion rather than systemic issues requiring deeper intervention. At American High, messages about love and kindness allow folks to avoid addressing these issues, ones often labeled as “…

Status is a form of inequality based on esteem, respect, and honor. It is ancient and universal yet nevertheless pervades modern institutions, organizations and everyday life. Although we see it all around us in the workplace, the classroom, the neighborhoods we live in, the groups we socialize in, we barely understand status as a social process, what it is and why it matters both to individuals and for inequality in society. Status is often…

This talk provides an in-depth exploration of the lives of refugees and migrants, based on in-depth ethnographic research conducted in Malaysia, which is home to an estimated 8 million foreigners (and over half a million displaced/forced migrants).  The focus is on how migrant, displaced and undocumented groups and communities play vital roles economically yet continue to face significant structural and institutional challenges in host…

Join the UGA Sociology Department for a talk with Christopher Wildeman from Duke University titled “How Much Does Having a Family Member Incarcerated Cost” were he will discuss the following ideas. “How Much Does Having a Family Member Incarcerated Cost” Garrett Baker/Duke University Sarah Jobe/Duke University Christopher Wildeman/Duke University & ROCKWOOL Foundation Research Unit ABSTRACT Each year, several million Americans spend a…

This presentation synthesizes the findings from two separate but related research efforts examining the tactics employed by the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) in the 20th century to inculcate settlers in the United States with pyrophobic values. By examining USFS fire suppression rhetoric from 1905-present, as well as carrying out a systematic analysis of Smokey Bear campaign materials, these combined research efforts reveal how settler colonial…