Colloquia

Join us on April 1 at 10AM as we welcome Dr. Sarah Mosseri for her presentation of: "Trust Fall: How Workplace Relationships Fail Us"  Sponsored by the UGA Sociology Colloquium Committee In this talk, Sarah Mosseri draws on findings from her book, Trust Fall: How Workplace Relationships Fail Us (University of California Press, 2026) to explain the paradox of high workplace trust amid declining societal trust.  Drawing data…

Join UGA Sociology on April 14 as we welcome Dr. Jan E. Stets, Distinguished Professor of Sociology (University of California, Riverside) for her talk titled: "Morality in Social Life" Sponsored by the Sociology Graduate Student Society Abstract We live in a very polarized society. How do we understand morality today when opposing groups equally claim the moral high ground? Taking a broad sociological view, I argue that we need to understand…

Join UGA Sociology on February 27th as we welcome Dr. Kristina Brant (Penn State University) for her talk titled: "The Impacts of Severe Floods on Substance Use in Rural Appalachia" In this talk, Kristina will present her current research on the impacts of severe floods on substance use-related harms. When conducting ethnographic fieldwork in rural Eastern Kentucky in 2021, Kristina witnessed the first of three severe floods to hit the region in…

Join UGA Sociology as we welcome Dr. Amy Spring (Georgia State University) for her presentation of: Moving with Family in Mind: Kinship and U.S. Mobility Family is an enduring force in American life and factors prominently into migration and settlement patterns. This presentation explores key themes from my research using a novel multigenerational kinship database derived from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), which has followed…

Please join the Sociology Department in presenting a job talk by Doctoral candidate Keely Fox entitled: "Naming the Unnamed: An Exploration of Menopausal Symptom Recognition and Care-Seeking."

"Law and Order Leviathan: A Theory of America’s Extraordinary Penal State”Abstract: Why is America, that storied land of liberty, home to mass incarceration, police killings, and racialized criminal justice? My lecture traces the structural sources of America’s extraordinary penal state and the community-level processes through which they impact crime and policing. I argue that America’s carceral regime will remain an international outlier until…

Sponsored by the Sociology Graduate Student Society, please join us as we welcome Dr. Lisa Wade from the University of Tulane for her talk titled "Tested: Life with Covid at an American Party School" What is the value of social science to STEM? Dr. Lisa Wade argues that knowledge based in the STEM fields—science, tech, engineering, and math—cannot be successfully deployed in a vacuum. Using a case study of students navigating co-residence,…

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 for his talk titled "Do Birds of a Nest Flock Together? A Study of Home Provinces and Migration Paths among Filipina Domestic Workers in Hong Kong" 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…