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Special Speaker Event!
Alyssa Brown (University of Georgia)
November 1, 2023
Miller Learning Center, Room 214
Job Talk: Health Care Access and Health Behaviors for Lesbian Women
Sarah M. Groh (University of Georgia)
October 13, 2023
Miller Learning Center, Room 214
Sociology of Entrepreneurship and Cooperative Enterprise: When the Adventure Finds You
October 6, 2023
Miller Learning Center, Room 214
Disentangling the Crimmigration Structure: The Role of System Hybridity in Criminal Justice Punishment
Amairini Sanchez (University of Georgia)
September 29, 2023
MLC 214
BOP Theory Lecture and Q&A with Dr. Barbara Combs
September 22, 2023
MLC 214
Parallel Identity Processes, Social Networks, and Mixed Emotions Colloquium
Cerenity E Collins (University of Georgia)
September 15, 2023
MLC 214
Below Baldwin- Film Screening and Discussion
August 25, 2023
MLC 214
"The rise of right-wing-populism in Europe: Insights from party research and political sociology"
Dr. Jasmin Siri, PHD, Postdoc (LMU Munich, Germany)
August 23, 2023
Baldwin Hall- Pinnacle Room- rm 480
Everyone Thinks We Look Alike: Seeking Recognition in LGBTQ-Parented Stepfamilies
Dr. Katie L. Acosta, PhD, Sociology (Georgia State University)
April 21, 2023
MLC 213
Just a Race Hire? The Effects of Competency Microaggressions on Workplace Behaviors and Emotion
Malissa Alinor (University of Georgia)
Malissa Alinor (University of Georgia) Dr. Malissa Alinor, Stanford VMware Women’s Leadership and Innovation Lab (Stanford University)
April 14, 2023
MLC 213
Active Learning Workshop for Graduate Students
Dr. Ching-Yu Huang, Center for Teaching and Learning (University of Georgia)
March 17, 2023
MLC 213
"THE RACIAL AND GENDERED DYNAMICS OF POWER ON CAMPUS: BLACK WOMEN CREATING COUNTER-SPACES AS RESISTANCE"
Dr. Veronica Newton, Sociology (Georgia State University)
March 3, 2023
MLC 213
What is Anti-Science? Science, Scientists, and COVID-19 Misinformation and Conspiracies
Dr. Amit Prasad, School of History and Sociology (Georgia Institute of Technology)
February 24, 2023
MLC 214
"EQUAL PARTNERS? HOW DUAL PROFESSIONAL COUPLES MAKE CAREER, RELATIONSHIP, AND FAMILY DECISIONS"
Dr. Jaclyn Wong, Sociology (University of South Carolina)
February 17, 2023
MLC 213
Grant Writing Workshop
Dawn T Robinson (University of Georgia)
Dawn T Robinson (University of Georgia) Dr. Dawn Robinson, Sociology (University of Georgia)
February 10, 2023
MLC 213
Reckoning with Race: Fluidity, Invention, and 'Reality'
Dr. Ann Morning, Sociology (New York University)
January 20, 2023
MLC 213
“You Can’t Always Test What You Want: But if you try…you test what you need”
Dr. Lynn Chin, Sociology (Washington and Lee University)
November 18, 2022
MLC 213
“Proletarian Lives: Ideas, Routines, and Activism in a Poor People’s Movement”
Dr. Marcos Pérez, (Washington and Lee University)
October 21, 2022
MLC 213
“Vertical Direction and the Social Control of Medical Mistakes”
Daniel J. Boches (University of Georgia)
Daniel J. Boches (University of Georgia) Dan Boches, Sociology (University of Georgia)
October 14, 2022
MLC 213
"Incorporating Inclusion, Diverse Perspectives, and Advancing Equity in the Classroom"
Dr. Ruth Poproski, UGA Center for Teaching and Learning (University of Georgia)
October 7, 2022
MLC 213
“Assessing the Spillover Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Intergroup Relations”
Dr. Jun Zhao, Sociology (Georgia State University)
September 23, 2022
MLC 213
"Below Baldwin: Viewing and Discussion"
Imani Scott Blackwell,
September 16, 2022
MLC 213
"Fair and Lovely: Colorism and Asian American Women"
Nikki Khanna, Assistant Professor of Sociology (University of Vermont)
April 22, 2022
via Zoom
"The Greening Imaginary: Urbanized Nature from Garden Cities to Climate Justice"
Hillary Angelo, Associate Professor of Sociology (University of California, Santa Cruz)
April 15, 2022
via Zoom
"Meanings of Employment in the Lives of the Formerly Incarcerated"
Paul E. Bellair, Professor of Sociology and Director of Criminal Justice Research Center (The Ohio State University)
April 1, 2022
MLC 250
"Fatphobia as Misogynoir: Gender, Race, and Weight Stigma"
Sabrina Strings, Associate Professor of Sociology (University of California, Irvine)
March 25, 2022
via Zoom
"Militarizing the Police: Empire and the Global Color Line"
Julian Go, Professor of Sociology (University of Chicago)
March 4, 2022
via Zoom
"The Polarization of American Popular Culture: Scope and Mechanisms"
Craig M. Rawlings, Assistant Professor of Sociology (Duke University)
February 25, 2022
Pinnacle Room, Baldwin Hall
"Mestizaje Undone: A Qualitative Social Media Analysis of Afro-Latinx Identity & Social Movements"
Ashley Crooks-Allen (University of Georgia)
Ashley Crooks-Allen (University of Georgia) Ashley Crooks-Allen, Sociology (University of Georgia)
November 12, 2021
Online via Zoom
"Twitter Discourse and the New Digital Newsroom"
Leslie Kay Jones, Sociology (Rutgers University-New Brunswick)
October 15, 2021
Online via Zoom
"A Test of Competing Pathways to Young Adulthood Violence"
Megan Steele (University of Georgia)
October 1, 2021
Online via Zoom
"Presentation of Soc in the Wider World"
Elisa Bienenstock, (Arizona State University)
September 24, 2021
Online via Zoom
"Discussion: Below Baldwin - A Student Documentary"
Sarah Shannon and Vanessa Gonlin, Sociology (University of Georgia)
September 17, 2021
Online via Zoom
"Behavioral Experiments in the Online Setting and Studying Gender as a Status Characteristic"
Bianca Manago, Sociology (Vanderbilt University)
September 3, 2021
Online via Zoom
“The End of College Football: On Harm and Exploitation in Big-Time College Sports.”
Derek Silva, Assistant Professor of Criminology in Department of Sociology (King’s University College at Western University)
April 23, 2021
zoom
“Diversity Capital: Race and Corporate Support for the Arts.”
Patricia A. Banks, Co-Editor-in-Chief of Poetics and Professor of Sociology (Mount Holyoke College)
April 16, 2021
zoom
“The Encrypted State: Delusion and Displacement in the Peruvian Andes.”
David Nugent, Professor of Anthropology, (Emory University)
April 2, 2021
zoom
“Drug War Capitalism, Disappearance & Community Resistance to Violence in Mexico.”
Dawn Paley, Journalist/Sociology Ph.D. (University of Puebla)
March 19, 2021
zoom
“Celebrity Culture During COVID-19: A Sociological Framework for Pandemic Times..”
Mathieu Deflem, Professor of Sociology (University of South Carolina)
February 26, 2021
zoom
“Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing.”
Sarah Brayne, Assistant Professor of Sociology (University of Texas at Austin)
February 19, 2021
zoom
Bad Apples Come From Rotten Trees in Policing: Pursuing Racial Equity in Policing
October 26, 2020
Zoom and Facebook live
“Marijuana Boom, The Rise and Fall of Colombia's First Drug Paradise.”
Lina Britto, Department of History (Northwestern University)
October 23, 2020
via Zoom
“How Black and Asian Americans React to and Cope with the Stress of Racial Discrimination.”
Malissa Alinor (University of Georgia)
Malissa Alinor (University of Georgia) Malissa Alinor, Department of Sociology (University of Georgia)
October 16, 2020
via Zoom
“Understanding What Happens After “I Do”: Lessons from Longitudinal Research on Newlywed Marriage.”
Justin Lavner, Department of Psychology (University of Georgia)
October 9, 2020
via Zoom
“Cooperation Over Cooptation in the Campus Anti-Violence Movement.”
Arialle Crabtree (University of Georgia)
Arialle Crabtree (University of Georgia) Arialle Crabtree, Department of Sociology (University of Georgia)
September 25, 2020
via Zoom
“The Politics of Compassion: The Sichuan Earthquake and Civic Engagement in China”
Bin Xu , Assistant Professor of Sociology, (Emory University)
February 28, 2020
MLC 214
“The Politics of Losing: Trump, the Klan, and the Mainstreaming of Resentment”
Rory McVeigh , Professor of Sociology (University of Notre Dame )
February 21, 2020
MLC 214
“Doubly Conscious: Black Cybercultures”
André Brock , Associate Professor of Media Studies (Georgia Institute of Technology)
February 7, 2020
MLC 214
“Stress, Growth, and Emotion: The Role of Group Membership”
James Igoe Walsh , Professor of Political Science (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)
January 31, 2020
MLC 214
“Meaningful Discord: Emotion Signals and Relational Identities”
Chelsea Rae Kelly (University of Georgia)
January 24, 2020
MLC 214
Title Forthcoming
Ashley Harrell, Organizational Studies (University of Michigan)
November 15, 2019
MLC 213
When Do Armed Groups Refuse to Carry out Electoral Violence?”
Megan Turnbull, International Affairs (University of Georgia)
November 8, 2019
MLC 213
“Talk About the Passion: The Pathways and Challenges of Crafting Careers in a College Music Town”
Michael Ramirez, Sociology (Texas A&M University)
October 25, 2019
MLC 213
“Mental Health and Punishment: Exploring How Contact with the Criminal Justice System Impacts Mental Health”
Timothy G. Edgemon (University of Georgia)
October 11, 2019
MLC 213
“Book Presentation: Harassed: Gender, Bodies, and Ethnographic Research”
Patricia Richards (University of Georgia)
Patricia Richards (University of Georgia) Rebecca Hanson, Sociology (University of Florida)
October 4, 2019
MLC 213
“Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving”
Caitlyn Collins, Sociology (Washington State University - St. Louis)
September 27, 2019
MLC 213
“Behind the Laughs: Community and Inequality in Comedy”
Michael Jeffries, American Studies (Wellesley College)
September 20, 2019
MLC 213
“Understanding the Health Consequences of Antisocial Lifestyle: Accelerated Aging and Inflammation”
Eric T. Klopack (University of Georgia)
September 13, 2019
MLC 213
“Relational Inequalities: An Organizational Approach”
Dustin Avent-Holt, Sociology (Augusta University)
September 6, 2019
MLC 213
“The Causes and Consequences of Masculinity and Femininity Perceptions in the Hiring Process”
Trent D. Mize, Sociology (Purdue University)
August 30, 2019
MLC 213
“Learning — and Making Change — from the Inside-Out”
Lori Pompa, (Director of the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program)
August 30, 2019
Baldwin Hall Pinnacle Room
"Gendered Prisoner Societies: Structure and Status in Male and Female Prison Units”
Derek Kreager, Sociology and Criminology (Pennsylvania State University)
April 19, 2019
MLC 214
“Climbing the power ladder of general hospitals: The case of Taiwan”
Meei-ying Kao, Sociology (Taipei Medical University, Taiwan)
April 5, 2019
MLC 214
“Why are there still headhunters (and what can they tell us about the labor market)?”
James E. Coverdill (University of Georgia), William Finlay (University of Georgia)
March 29, 2019
MLC 250
“The Police Man’s Burden: Racialized Masculinities and the Politics of Legitimate Violence”
Jennifer Carlson, Sociology (The University of Arizona)
March 6, 2019
MLC 348
“The Human Capital Costs Attributed to Campus Sexual Assault”
Sharyn Potter, Sociology and Women’s Studies (University of New Hampshire)
March 1, 2019
MLC 214
“The Politics of Resistance to Criminal Violence in Latin America”
Eduardo Moncada, Political Sciences (Barnard College)
February 15, 2019
MLC 214
Title Forthcoming
Chyi-in Wu, Deputy Director and Research Fellow (Academic Sinica, Taipei, Taiwán)
February 8, 2019
MLC 214
"Entitlement, Anger, and Discrimination: An Examination of White America"
Deena Isom, Criminology and Criminal Justice (University of South Carolina)
February 1, 2019
MLC 214
“Journalism After Trump”
Ronald Jacobs, Sociology (University at Albany, SUNY)
January 25, 2019
MLC 214
“The Inequality of Social Capital for Young Adults of College Graduates: The Impacts of Social Skills in Earlier Period.”
Ray-May Hsung, Distinguished Professor National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan (Visiting Professor, Columbia University, New York)
January 18, 2019
MLC 214
“Violence on Loan: Domesticating Conflict in Bolivia”
Susan Ellison, Assistant Professor of Anthropology (Wellesley College)
November 30, 2018
MLC 214
“Qualitative Inquiry Using Reddit”
Dr. Mary Caplan, School of Social Work (University of Georgia)
November 9, 2018
MLC 214
“Let’s Talk About Sex(ism) – The Differential Effects of Gender Discrimination on Liberal and Conservative Women’s Political Engagement”
Alexa Bankert, Assistant Professor of Political Science (University of Georgia)
November 2, 2018
MLC 214
“The Processes and Politics of Trust at Work”
Sarah Mosseri, PhD Candidate in Sociology (University of Virginia)
October 5, 2018
MLC 214
“Examining Influences and Message Effects in Social- Mediated Crisis Communication”
Yan Jin, Professor of Public Relations (University of Georgia)
September 21, 2018
MLC 214
“Absence of Evidence, Evidence of Absence: Conceptualizing Ignorance in Environmental Controversies”
Abby Kinchy, Associate Professor of Science and Technology Studies (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
September 14, 2018
MLC 214
“Professional Work in a ‘Post-Racial’ Era: Black Health Care Workers in the New Economy”
Adia Harvey Wingfield, Professor of Sociology (Washington University in St. Louis)
September 7, 2018
MLC 214
Risky Investments: How Local and Foreign Investors Finesse Corruption-Rife Emerging Markets
Dr. Kimberly Kay Hoang, Department of Sociology (University of Chicago)
April 20, 2018
MLC 214
“Pull up your Pants’: Testing the Relationship between Attire and Perceived Threat”
Malissa Alinor (University of Georgia)
April 13, 2018
MLC 214
“A Network Study on Informant Accuracy”
Dr. Weihua An, Sociology & Quantitative Theory and Methods (Emory University )
March 30, 2018
MLC 214
Title Forthcoming
Mathew Hauer, Carl Vinson Institute of Government (University of Georgia)
February 23, 2018
MLC 214
“Masculinity, Violence, and Deindividuation in Argentine Soccer Chants”
Dr. Eduardo Herrera, Musicology/Ethnomusicology (Rutgers University)
February 16, 2018
MLC 214
"Women in Global Science: Advancing Careers through International Collaboration"
Kathrin Zippel , Department of Sociology (Northeastern University)
January 24, 2018
Baldwin Hall Pinnacle Room (4th Floor)
“The Success of Failure: The Planning-Programming-Budgeting System and the Effort to Rationalize Policy Decisions”
Elizabeth Popp Berman, Department of Sociology (University at Albany, SUNY)
January 19, 2018
214 Miller Learning Center
“Du Boisian Sociology: A road not taken, a road for the future of Sociology”
José Itzigsohn, Department of Sociology (Brown University)
November 10, 2017
MLC 213
Title Forthcoming
Kristen Clayton (University of Georgia)
November 3, 2017
MLC 213
“Counting Caste in an Era of Castelessness in India”
Trina Vithayathil, Department of Sociology and Global Studies (Providence College)
October 13, 2017
MLC 213
“The Value of Girls: Ownership Over Embodied Cultural Capital”
Ashley Mears, Department of Sociology (Boston University)
October 6, 2017
MLC 213
“It’s All About Race: How State Legislators Respond to Immigrant Constituents”
Micah Gell-Redman, SPIA (University of Georgia)
September 22, 2017
MLC 213
“Intimate Partner Violence as a Consequence of Childhood. Economic Hardship: The Mediating Role of Family Processes in a Longitudinal Study”
Tara E. Sutton (University of Georgia)
September 15, 2017
ML
“Transitions to Adulthood: Identity and Health”
Elizabeth Culatta (University of Georgia)
September 8, 2017
MLC 213
“Doing Gender Interrupted: Conversational Overlaps, Behavioral Role Taking and Gender”
Bryan Cannon (University of Georgia)
September 1, 2017
MLC 213
“Creating a Hostile Environment: Studying Aggression in a Laboratory Setting”
Kevin Swartout, Department of Psychology (Georgia State University)
August 25, 2017
MLC 213
“The Life Course of Crime and Criminalization”
Robert Sampson, Social Sciences (Harvard)
April 21, 2017
MLC 213
“Modeling Culture in Interaction"
Dawn T Robinson (University of Georgia)
April 14, 2017
MLC 213
"How Many Racists? How Everyday People Contribute to a System of Social Inequality"
Quincy Thomas Stewart, Sociology (Northwestern)
April 7, 2017
MLC 213
Title Forthcoming
Abigail Sewell, Sociology (Emory)
March 24, 2017
MLC 213
“Stories of Survival: Women's Testimonies of State Terrorism in Argentina”
Barbara Sutton, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department (University at Albany (CPH))
March 17, 2017
MLC 213
“Criminal Records, Spillovers, and the Growing Stickiness of Public Labels”
Chris Uggen, College of Liberal Arts (University of Minnesota)
March 15, 2017
Location To Be Announced
“Rural Financial Sector Restructuring and Small Business Lending: Lessons from Restricted Federal Data”
Dr. Charles Tolbert, Sociology (Baylor)
February 24, 2017
MLC 213
“The Indigenous State: Race and Politics in Plurinational Bolivia”
Nancy Postero, Anthropology (University of California at San Diego (CPH))
February 17, 2017
MLC 213
"Transitions from Prison to Community"
Bruce Western, Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy (Harvard)
February 10, 2017
MLC 213
“Metamorphosis of the Treatment of Substance Use Disorders: A 30-Year Sociological Perspective”
Paul Roman (University of Georgia)
January 27, 2017
MLC 213
"Metamorphosis of the Treatment of Substance Use Disorders: A 30-Year Sociological Perspective."
Paul Roman (University of Georgia)
January 27, 2017
MLC 213
"Making Hispanics: How Activists, Bureaucrats, and Media Constructed a New American"
G. Christina Mora, Sociology (UC-Berkeley)
January 20, 2017
MLC 213
'"Come Together?' Variations in Perceptions of Recovery from Disaster"
Ashleigh McKinzie (University of Georgia)
January 13, 2017
MLC 213
"‘Come Together?’ Only for Some: Variations in Perceptions of Recovery from Disaster"
Ashleigh McKinzie (University of Georgia)
January 13, 2017
MLC 213
"Race, Health and Inequality: Producing an HIV epidemic in the Shadow of the Capitol"
Sanyu Mojola, Department of Sociology (CPH Workshop) (University of Colorado-Boulder)
December 2, 2016
MLC 213
"The Color of Money: Black Banking and the Racial Wealth Gap"
Mehrsa Baradaran, Law School (University of Georgia)
November 11, 2016
MLC 213
CJ Day
November 11, 2016
Student Learning Center on the UGA Griffin Campus
"Black Elephants in the Room: How African American Republicans Manage White Skepticism"
Corey Fields, Department of Sociology (Stanford University)
November 4, 2016
MLC 213
"From brain to mind: A novel approach to investigating moral boundaries of race"
Rengin Firat, Department of Sociology (Georgia State University)
October 21, 2016
MLC 213
"Is Police Violence Synonymous with State Violence? Dissecting Police Use of Force in a Violent Democracy"
Rebecca Hanson (University of Georgia)
September 30, 2016
MLC 213
Practice Job Talk
Jun Zhao (University of Georgia)
September 16, 2016
MLC 213
Deirdre Oakley
Deirdre Oakley, Department of Sociology (Georgia State University)
September 9, 2016
MLC 213
Sociology Graduation Event
James E. Coverdill (University of Georgia)
May 13, 2016
MLC 148
“Rain on the scarecrow, blood on the plow”: The impact of the 1980s farm crisis on suicide in rural America
William Alex Pridemore, Dean and Professor, School of Criminal Justice (University at Albany – State University of New York)
April 29, 2016
MLC 213
“New Data Collection Strategies and Intervention Possibilities with Homeless Youth and Young Adults”
Kimberly A. Tyler, Professor, Department of Sociology (University of Nebraska – Lincoln)
April 1, 2016
MLC 213
"Teaching What Students Know (Or Think They Know): Using Student Knowledge as a Foundation for Learning"
William Finlay (University of Georgia)
March 30, 2016
MLC Reading Room
Food Chains Documentary
March 25, 2016
MLC 214
"Where are the Great Women Chefs? Gender Inequality in the Professional Kitchen"
Patti Giuffre, Professor, Department of Sociology (Texas State University)
March 18, 2016
MLC 213
“The spatial solidarity of intentional neighboring”
Katherine Hankins, Associate Professor of Geosciences (Georgia State University)
February 19, 2016
MLC 213
“How the social environment becomes biologically embedded and influences aging: Sociology and the fountain of youth”
Ron Simons (University of Georgia)
February 5, 2016
MLC 213
“New Data Collection Strategies and Intervention Possibilities with Homeless Youth and Young Adults”
Kimberly A. Tyler, Professor, Department of Sociology (University of Nebraska – Lincoln)
February 3, 2016
MLC 213
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