Julia T. Thomas is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and a faculty affiliate of the Criminal Justice Studies Program and the Owens Institute for Behavioral Research at the University of Georgia.  Her work focuses on the influence of racial inequality, current and historical, on patterns of crime and the criminal justice system in the United States. Her research leverages novel data and econometric modeling techniques and…

Gillian Slee is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Georgia. Her work focuses on understanding and ameliorating inequality in American state processes. To this end, she has studied issues and institutions with far-reaching consequences: public defense, eviction, child protective services, and parole. With each of her projects, Slee aims to humanize key state processes and demonstrate how institutions’ relational dynamics…

Peng Huang received his PhD in Sociology and an MS in Statistics from the University of California, Irvine, trained in the Networks, Computation, and Social Dynamics 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 social processes and people’s experiences therein. His first line of research…

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…

Vanessa Gonlin's research and teaching areas of expertise include racial identity(ies), colorism, and interracial relationships, with a particular focus on Black peoples and multiracials. She determines the outcomes of racial identity dimensions that do not always align, documents the impact of colorism and hairism, and highlights how social hierarchies operate within interracial relationship dynamics. Dr. Gonlin earned her PhD…

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.

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…

Man-Kit (Karlo) Lei is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and a Distinguished Scholar in the Owens Institute for Behavioral Research at the University of Georgia. He is also Co-Director of the Center on Biological Embedding of Social Events and Relationships. Dr. Lei obtained his LL.B. from the College of Law at National Taiwan University and his PhD in Sociology from the University of Georgia. His teaching and research areas…