Colloquia

Join us Friday, March 21 from 3 - 4:00 pm at MLC 214 for a book presentation by Dr. Diana Graizbord (Sociology and LACSI, University of Georgia). Her new publication is titled "Indicators of Democracy: The Politics and Promise of Evaluation Expertise in Mexico" from Stanford University Press.

Friday, February 7, 2025   12:40 - 1:30pm | MLC 214 | Abstract Dr. Katherine Sobering (Sociology & Women's Studies, University of North Texas) IWS's Friday Speaker Series: "The Queer Birth Project: Feminist Interdisciplinary Methods and LGBTQ+ Family-Building in the 21st Century."    3 - 4pm | MLC 214 | Abstract Dr. Katherine Sobering (Sociology & Women's Studies, University of North Texas) LACSI Research Talk: "Equality…

Join UGA Sociology as we welcome Dr. Tim Liao from the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. Biography PhD: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Tim Liao is Professor of Sociology & Statistics and LAS Alumni Distinguished Professorial Scholar. He is President of the Sequence Analysis Association and incoming Editor of Socius. He received the American Sociological Association Methodology's Paul F. Lazarsfeld Award in 2021. He was…

Join UGA Sociology as we welcome Dr. Jenny Davis from Vanderbilt University.   Jenny L. Davis is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair and Professor of Sociology at Vanderbilt University, with an Honorary Professorship at the Australian National University. She works at the intersection of social psychology and technology studies, focusing on the ways social forces embed within and are affected by, technological systems. Her book, How…

Join UGA Sociology as we welcome Dr. Meghan Rogers, Assistant Professor / Department of Sociology and Criminology from the University of Iowa.   Dr. Rogers research focuses on the complexities of crime across nations. Drawing from a diverse array of theoretical and methodological approaches, her recent research addresses femicide, the gender gap in homicide, explanations for variation in homicide victimization across nations, and crime…

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.”