The latest news on some of our graduates

Fernando Clark (Ph.D., completed June 2024)

Thank-a-Teacher notes highlight UGA’s caring and welcoming educators

MacArthur “Genius Grant” Fellow and University of Chicago sociologist Dr. Reuben Miller is the author of Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration, a “persuasive and essential” (Dr.

Status is a form of inequality based on esteem, respect, and honor. It is ancient and universal yet nevertheless pervades modern institutions, organizations and everyday life. Although we see it all around us in the workplace, the classroom, the neighborhoods we live in, the groups we socialize in, we barely understand status as a social process, what it is and why it matters both to individuals and for inequality in society.

This talk provides an in-depth exploration of the lives of refugees and migrants, based on in-depth ethnographic research conducted in Malaysia, which is home to an estimated 8 million foreigners (and over half a million displaced/forced migrants).  The focus is on how migrant, displaced and undocumented groups and communities play vital roles economically yet continue to face significant structural and institutional challenges in host countries where formal recognition is nonexistent.

Join the UGA Sociology Department for a talk with Christopher Wildeman from Duke University titled “How Much Does Having a Family Member Incarcerated Cost” were he will discuss the following ideas.

“How Much Does Having a Family Member Incarcerated Cost”

Garrett Baker/Duke University

Sarah Jobe/Duke University

Christopher Wildeman/Duke University & ROCKWOOL Foundation Research Unit

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This presentation synthesizes the findings from two separate but related research efforts examining the tactics employed by the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) in the 20th century to inculcate settlers in the United States with pyrophobic values. By examining USFS fire suppression rhetoric from 1905-present, as well as carrying out a systematic analysis of Smokey Bear campaign materials, these combined research efforts reveal how settler colonial logics permeated the agency's outward-facing dialogue and marketing to conceal the lack of science informing the agency's strict fire suppression.

Join the Department of Sociology for a Speaker Event with our newest Doctor!  Alyssa Brown, Ph.D.

Nov 1, 3:00-4:00 at the Miller Learning Center, Room 214.

Join us on Friday 10/13 at 3PM as Sarah Groh explores the health care utilization and health behaviors of lesbian women.  Given the barriers to health care along dimensions of gender, race, and class within a political climate that targets LGBTQ+ health care specifically, understanding how these barriers affect health decisions and health care utilization has important policy implications for the lives of lesbian women.  

Congratulations to our amazing graduate students Tenshi Kawashima, Kiley Smith, and Yue Zhang for the awards they received at ASA back in August!

PhD student Tenshi Kawashima was awarded the Graduate Student Investigator Award from ASA’s Section on Social Psychology for her research project “Work-role identity and the perception of and responses to distributive injustice.”