Justine Tinkler has been chosen to receive the Katharine Jocher-Belle Boone Beard Award by the Honors Committee of the Southern Sociological Society.  The award recognizes distinguished scholarly contributions to the understanding of gender and society.  Justine will be recognized prior to the Presidential Address at the SSS Annual Meeting next year. 

Jody Clay-Warner, Dawn Robinson, and Justine Tinkler were recently selected by the ASA Council to become the new editors of Social Psychology Quarterly (SPQ). 

Tim Edgemon has accepted two positions. Next fall he will begin an National Institute of Justice (NIJ) Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Cincinnati Corrections Institute.  In Fall of 2021, Tim will join Auburn University is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work.

In collaboration with four others, Pablo Lapegna received support for “Dirty History:  An Interdisciplinary Workshop in Agriculture, Environment, and Capitalism.” 

Jeff Shelton has accepted a tenure track position at Wayne State College in Nebraska. He will begin in the fall as an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Psychology.

University of Georgia COVID-19 Update

Per the USG’s direction, the University of Georgia will move to online instruction for all courses for the remainder of the semester. The University of Georgia has a coronavirus website to provide the campus community with information about health, travel, emergency preparedness, and campus operations. For information and resources, visit uga.edu/coronavirus.

We welcome Vanessa Gonlin to the Department of Sociology.  She will join us in August. 

The GCPH workshop seeks to provide a space for discussion of for social scientific research that sees meaning and meaning creation (Culture) as central to the way humans create social structure, regards structured inequality (Power) as a central aspect of the social world, and focuses on concrete actors and structures as they develop through time (History).

The Laboratory for the Study of Social Interaction is located in the Department of Sociology at the University of Georgia. LaSSI houses research on basic processes in social interaction including (a) socioemotional processes (b) status and power processes (c) justice and injustice processes (d) individual and group identity processes.

The goal of the Families, Communities, and Health Workshop is to provide a forum where graduate students and faculty can gather to collaborate with each other on research papers that use longitudinal data to test models focusing on parent-child and marital interaction, deviant behavior and mental health, neighborhood conditions, school involvement, peer affiliation, romantic relationships, and physical health.  Most papers utilize data collected as part of the Families and Communities Health Study (FACHS) or the Iowa Youth and Families Project (IYFP). Both FACHS and IYFP consist of decades of information collected on several hundred parents and their children. The children in both studies are now adults and the parents are entering their senior years. Study variables were measured using observational, survey, and GIS data.  Recent waves of data collection have also included an assessment of health risk factors such as blood pressure BMI as well as blood draws to assess inflammation, blood sugar, and speed of biological aging. These projects are ongoing and have been funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the National Institute of Aging, the National Institute of Mental Health, National Heart, Lung, Blood Institute, and the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

Students and faculty with common interests identify papers that they would like to pursue together. The workgroup then serves as a medium where the authors can present and get constructive feedback regarding their theoretical model, measures, findings, and form of the manuscript. The basic philosophy of the group is that research is always better when it involves collaboration.