Faculty

Peng Huang is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Georgia. He received his PhD in Sociology and an MS in Statistics from the University of California, Irvine, trained in the Networks, Computation, and Social Dynamcis Lab. He also holds BAs in Sociology and Economics from Peking University.  Huang’s research focuses on social networks and population dynamics, adopting a relational and structural approach to explore…

Peng Huang
Dr. Pridemore is Department Head and Marienthal Professor in the Department of Sociology at University of Georgia. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the American Society of Criminology. Dr. Pridemore received his PhD in 2000 from the School of Criminal Justice at the University at Albany – SUNY and spent 2003-2004 as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard in the Davis Center for Russian and…

William Alex Pridemore

Bobby Jo Otto

Matthew Peach
Vanessa Gonlin joined the UGA Department of Sociology in 2020 after earning her PhD from Texas A&M University with specializations in race and social demography and certificates in Advanced Research Methods, Africana Studies, and Latino/a and Mexican American Studies. Her research and teaching areas of expertise include racial identity(ies), colorism, and interracial relationships, with a particular focus on Black peoples and bi/…

Vanessa Gonlin
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.

Anna S. Rogers
Jorge Derpic is an Assistant Director and Academic Professional Associate for the Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of Georgia. His research focuses on state and collective responses to crime in urban-indigenous Latin America. His current project expands the analysis of linchamientos, acts of collective violence against alleged criminal offenders in the city of El Alto, Bolivia. He specifically studies the factors…

Jorge Derpic
Man Kit (Karlo) Lei is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and a core faculty member of the Center on Biological Embedding of Social Events and Relationships. He holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Georgia. Dr. Lei's teaching and research areas encompass diverse topics, including the sociology of health, criminology, structural inequality, family and neighborhood studies, and quantitative methods. Dr. Lei's…

Man Kit Lei
Diana Graizbord is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Latin American and Caribbean Studies. During the 2025-2026 academic year she will be a Visiting Fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Previously Diana was a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.  Diana earned her Ph.D in Sociology from Brown University where she was an NSF-IGERT Fellow in Development…

Diana Graizbord
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
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