The UGA Office of Research named Jody Clay-Warner the new director of the Owens Institute for Behavioral Research, effective Aug. 1.

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Cross-cultural understanding and UGA sociology:

Congratulations to Joe Hermanowicz whose foundational study, The Stars Are Not Enough: Scientists—Their Passions and Professions, has been published in Chinese by Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press.

Congratulations to 2 of our current graduate students and a recent graduate who were recently elected as representatives for ASA sections:

Tenshi Kawashima (1 year term) for Mathematical Sociology
Madeline Williams (1 year term) for Sociology of Emotions
Emily Tingle (2-year term) for Theory

We are excited for their elections and thank them for their service to ASA as well as the discipline!

"Law and Order Leviathan: A Theory of America’s Extraordinary Penal State”

What drives rule-breaking or withdrawal from supportive resources after prison? In an ethnographic study published in Criminology, new faculty member Dr. Gillian Slee demonstrates how both everyday indignities and people’s desire for social belonging shape outcomes for individuals on parole.

By tracing the subtle harms of community supervision, Dr. Slee's research extends how we understand poverty governance, institutional failure, and the human toll of reentry.

Department Head & Marienthal Professor, Dr. William Pridemore, recently published an article with Dr. Guillermo Escano (on faculty at Villanova University) and Dr. David McDowall (recently retired from the University at Albany – SUNY School of Criminal Justice) examining the relative impact of get-tough laws and gang truces on homicide rates in El Salvador. You can read the article in British Journal of Criminology here.