Emeritus Faculty

Dr. Paul M. Roman, Professor of Sociology, has been at the University of Georgia since 1986. He received a Ph.D. in Sociology from Cornell University in 1968. Dr. Roman's most recent work examines organizational change and adaptation in national samples of 900 public and private substance abuse treatment organizations; diffusion and adoption of innovations by substance abuse treatment organizations; organization and management in a national…

Paul Roman
E.M. BECK is Professor of Emeritus of Sociology and Josiah Meigs Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Georgia. His research focuses on the political economy of racial violence, in particular the relationship between economic change in the American South and violence against blacks. He has authored over 60 papers published in sociological and social science journals, and is co-author of A Festival of Violence: An Analysis of…

E. M. Beck
Dr. William Finlay is a Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Georgia, where he taught at the University of Georgia from 1988 until 2022. Prior to that he taught at the University of Iowa. He received a Ph.D. in Sociology from Northwestern University and his undergraduate degree from the University of Cape Town. His research areas include the workplace, organizations, and economic sociology.and he has…

William Finlay
Dr. Linda Grant, Professor of Sociology, has been at the University of Georgia since 1985. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Michigan in 1981. Her specialty areas include sociology of gender, sociology of education, qualitative methods, social psychology, women and science. Dr. Grant's most recent work examines mentoring and gender and careers in the social, biological, and physical sciences, race and gender issues in…

Linda Grant
Dr. James J. Dowd, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, has been at the University of Georgia since 1977. He received a doctoral degree in Sociology from the University of Southern California in 1976. Dr. Dowd's specialty areas include the sociology of aging, social theory, sociology in film, and military sociology.   Dr. Dowd's most recent work examines the intersection of sociology, life-span human development, and the humanities. His…

James J. Dowd

Dean Rojek

Martha Myers
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