Faculty

Todd Krohn, Temporary Instructor of Sociology, has been at the University of Georgia since 1999. He received an B.S. in Criminal Justice in 1988, and an M.A. in Sociology in 1994, both from Georgia State University. His specialty areas include critical penology, the death penalty, crime as political capital, the medicalization of deviance and the myth of mental illness.

Todd Krohn
Sarah K.S. Shannon joined the UGA Sociology Department in 2013 after receiving her PhD (and MSW) from the University of Minnesota.  Sarah's research focuses on systems of criminal punishment and their effects on social life. Her interdisciplinary research has been published in top journals in several fields including sociology, criminology, public health, social work, and geography. Sarah is also an award-winning teacher, having received…

Sarah Shannon
Joseph C. Hermanowicz (American pronunciation Her/mán/ō/whiz; alternatively Heirman/ó/vich) specializes in the study of higher education.  His work is connected to several substantive areas: professions and careers, organizational culture, life course studies, and the sociology of science.  Methodologically, Hermanowicz has helped to develop longitudinal applications to qualitatively-based interviewing.  His studies of science and…

Joseph C. Hermanowicz
Dr. Mark Cooney, Professor of Sociology, has been at the University of Georgia since 1991. He received a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Virginia in 1991. In addition, Dr. Cooney holds a Doctor of Juridical Science degree from Harvard Law School, received in 1988. His departmental specialty area is crime, law, and deviance. Dr. Cooney is interested in moral conflict, particularly violence. His publications have addressed a variety…

Mark Cooney
Dr. Pablo Lapegna obtained his Licenciatura in Sociology from the University of Buenos Aires, and his PhD in Sociology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He teaches and writes about social movements, environmental issues, critical agrarian studies, and global processes, with a focus on South America and using qualitative methods (see "Research" below for publications). He holds a joint appointment with the Latin American and…

Pablo Lapegna
Dawn T. Robinson is Professor of Sociology and Fellow in the Owens Institute of Behavioral Research at the University of Georgia where she founded and co-directs the Laboratory for the Study of Social Interaction and the Computational Social Science Work Group. Dr. Robinson received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Cornell University and held an NIMH postdoctoral fellowship in Normal and Abnormal Group Processes at Stanford University. Prior to…

Dawn T Robinson
Ron Simons is Regents' Professor of Sociology, Fellow in the Center for Family Research, and Co-Director of the Center on the Biological Embedding of Social Events and Relationships. He received a PhD in Sociology from Florida State University and completed postdoctoral work at the University of Wisconsin. His teaching and research interests include medical sociology, family and the life course, criminology, socio-economic…

Ron Simons

Kandauda (K. A. S.) Wickrama

Dean Rojek

Martha Myers
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