“Book Presentation: Harassed: Gender, Bodies, and Ethnographic Research” Read more about “Book Presentation: Harassed: Gender, Bodies, and Ethnographic Research”
“Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving” Read more about “Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving”
“Behind the Laughs: Community and Inequality in Comedy” Read more about “Behind the Laughs: Community and Inequality in Comedy”
“Understanding the Health Consequences of Antisocial Lifestyle: Accelerated Aging and Inflammation” Read more about “Understanding the Health Consequences of Antisocial Lifestyle: Accelerated Aging and Inflammation”
“Relational Inequalities: An Organizational Approach” Read more about “Relational Inequalities: An Organizational Approach”
“The Causes and Consequences of Masculinity and Femininity Perceptions in the Hiring Process” Read more about “The Causes and Consequences of Masculinity and Femininity Perceptions in the Hiring Process”
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Kylie M. Smith Doctoral Candidate Kylie M. Smith is a doctoral candidate in the Sociology Department at the University of Georgia. She earned her MA in Sociology from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 2019 as well as a Graduate Certificate in Women’s Studies from the University of Georgia in 2022. Her research interests include social psychology, sex and gender, inequality, deviance and crime, and science, knowledge, and technology. She has taught several classes at the University of Georgia including Introductory Sociology (SOCI 1101), Social Psychology (SOCI 3730), and Sociology of Gender (SOCI 3280). Kylie is interested in examining how gendered inequalities are created and persist in various contexts. Her dissertation specifically looks at how identity threat influences discriminatory behaviors in online environments. Through experimental methods, she is studying whether male gamers respond to gamer identity threat with discriminatory behavior and sexist attitudes towards women. She has received funding to support this research through the American Sociological Association’s Section on Social Psychology’s Graduate Student Investigator Award as well as through the University of Georgia’s Graduate School Summer Research Grant program and the Center for Research and Engagement in Diversity’s Red Seed Grant. Kylie’s second main stream of research centers on the relationship between status and emotional labor. In her solo authored paper published in Emotions and Society, she examined how structural conditions influenced how STEM graduate students felt about their own emotional labor. This research demonstrated that relative status did seem to influence how participants felt about their own emotional labor. Additionally, gender and race mattered: when participants felt that they were performing emotional labor due to their marginalized status as women or people of color (or both), they felt negatively about the emotional labor they performed. This paper won the inaugural Tim Futing Liao Graduate Award in Sociology for Best Published Article from the University of Georgia’s Sociology Department as well as received an honorable mention for the Graduate Student Paper Award from ASA’s Section on the Sociology of Emotions. From 2021-2022, Kylie served as the Managing Editor for Social Psychology Quarterly. Additionally, in the 2024-2025 academic year, Kylie is working with an interdisciplinary team on an NSF-funded project focused on teaching evaluation and change in STEM higher education. Education Education: Graduate Certificate in Women's Studies, University of Georgia, 2022 M.A. in Sociology, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 2019 B.A. in Sociology, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 2018 Research Read more about Kylie M. Smith Research Areas: Social Psychology Gender Sociology of Emotions Inequality Crime, Law, and Deviance Research Interests: Sex and Gender, Social Psychology, Sociology of Emotions, Inequalities, Crime and Deviance, Science, Knowledge, and Technology Labs: Laboratory for the Study of Social Interaction Selected Publications Selected Publications: Smith, Kylie M. (in press) “Emoting Up, Emoting Down: Status, Authenticity, and the Emotional Labour of STEM Graduate Students.” Emotions and Society. Clay-Warner, Jody, Justine Tinkler, Sarah M. Groh, Kylie M. Smith, and Sharyn Potter. (in press) “What Will People Think? How College Students Evaluate Bystander Intervention Behavior.” Journal of Interpersonal Violence. Awards, Honors, and Recognition Of Note: Recipient of the University of Georgia's Graduate School's J. William Fanning Graduate Fellowship (2024-2025) Recipient of the University of Georgia's Sociology Department's Tim Futing Liao Graduate Award in Sociology for Best Published Article (2024) Recipient of the American Sociological Association's Section on Social Psychology's Graduate Student Investigator Award (2022) Recipient of the University of Georgia's Presidential Fellows Graduate Research Assistantship (2019-2024) Courses Regularly Taught Courses Regularly Taught: SOCI 3280 SOCI 3730 SOCI 1101
Anna S. Rogers Senior Lecturer Undergraduate Coordinator Dr. Rogers is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and assists with the Criminal Justice Program. She is currently teaching Introductory Sociology online, Youth Subcultures, and Research Methods in Criminal Justice. She also supervises Criminal Justice Internship students. Dr. Rogers is also the Undergraduate Coordinator for the Sociology Department. Education Education: Ph.D. Sociology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, August 2019 M.A. Sociology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, May 2015 B.A. Sociology, with Distinction, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, August 2012 (Minor in Women's and Gender Studies) Research Read more about Anna S. Rogers Awards, Honors, and Recognition Of Note: Anna Sheree Rogers, Ph.D. is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology. She received her B.A (2012), M.A.(2015), and Ph.D. (2019) from the University of South Carolina. She was the first ever student in the UofSC Sociology program to graduate with Distinction when she received her B.A. in 2012. Already as an undergraduate Dr. Rogers began to develop her research interests in gender and popular culture, writing her Distinction paper on sexism in the lyrics of various kinds of popular music. In 2015, she received her M.A. in sociology on the basis of a thesis on gender dynamics in the heavy metal subculture, focusing in particular on the changing role of, and perceptions about, women as fans and practitioners of heavy metal. Dr. Rogers' current research centers on gendered, and sometimes deviant, identity formations in various forms of popular culture, such as in music, television, and film. Her dissertation involved an examination of the dynamics of women’s self-empowerment through the development and adaptation of cultural symbols among women who are self-described 'witches'. She investigated how this role is adopted to navigate the stigma associated with a traditionally deviant status. Dr. Rogers was a recipient of the Sociology Department's Graduate Teaching Award in 2017 as well as the Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award from the USC Graduate School in 2018. Her dissertation was funded by the Russell J. and Dorothy S. Bilinski Dissertation Fellowship program. Courses Regularly Taught Courses Regularly Taught: SOCI 3700W (POLS 3700W) SOCI 1101 SOCI 1101H SOCI 3580
Yue Zhang Yue Zhang received her PhD from the Department of Sociology at the University of Georgia in 2024. Yue’s research investigates how social processes influence health and aging over the life-course. More specifically, she is interested in the mechanisms through which social events and relationships produce inequality and influence the speed of aging. Her current research focuses on chronic stress and accelerated aging among African Americans. Yue currently works as a research assistant for the Family and Community Health Study (FACHS) under the direction of Dr. Ronald Simons. Utilizing chronic inflammation and epigenetic clocks to assess the speed of biological aging, FACHS data have shown that these biomarkers of aging are influenced by social factors such as economic hardship, neighborhood disadvantage, and racial discrimination. Yue’s work with her research team has been published in multiple peer-reviewed journals, including Health Psychology and Journal of Health and Social Behavior. Other Affiliations: Enter the name of department or institution you are affiliated with Research Read more about Yue Zhang Research Areas: Family, Life Course, and Aging Research Interests: Social Determinants of Health and Aging, Life-Course Approach, Family Studies, Quantitative Research Methods and Statistics Courses Regularly Taught Courses Regularly Taught: SOCI 3610 SOCI 4000
