Colloquia

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.”

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…