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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
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
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. Patricia Richards, Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies, has been at the University of Georgia since 2002. She currently serves as the director of the Institute for Women's Studies. She also serves (with Sharmila Rudrappa of the University of Texas at Austin) as co-editor of Gender & Society.  Dr. Richards is an affiliated faculty member with the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Institute and the Institute of…

Patricia Richards
Dr. Leslie Gordon Simons, Meigs Professor of Sociology and Distinguished Scholar with the Owen's Institute of Social and Behavioral Research, joined the University of Georgia faculty in 2002. Leslie's primary areas of expertise are Family and Criminology. Her program of research focuses on the socio-contextual predictors and consequences of various family processes as well as the mediators and moderators of the relationship between…

Leslie Gordon Simons
Dr. Jody Clay-Warner, Meigs Professor of Sociology (view Dr. Clay-Warner's Meigs video) and Director of the Owens Institute for Behavioral Research, has been at the University of Georgia since 1998. She received a Ph.D. in Sociology from Emory University, and her specialty areas include social psychology, criminology, and gender.  She is the co-editor of Social Psychology Quarterly and the co-director of the Laboratory for the Study of…

Jody Clay-Warner
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