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Tim Gill
Lacey Moore is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Georgia. Her research utilizes a mixed methods approach to answer sociological questions in crime, deviance, punishment, education, and inequality with a specific focus on higher education for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individuals. Lacey's dissertation uses survey data and semi-structured interviews to explore the motivations and non-material…

Lacey Moore
Alyssa is a PhD graduate in sociology at the University of Georgia in December 2023. At the intersection of criminology and family sociology, her research focuses broadly on the relationships between social inequality, family processes, and antisocial behavior among adolescents and young adults. Alyssa's dissertation uses advanced quantitative methods to examine the impact of racial discrimination on the development of delinquent behavior among…

Alyssa Brown
Daniel is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Georgia (UGA).  His research focuses on the interplay between deviance, law, and medical sociology.  Daniel’s dissertation uses semi-structured interviews with physicians to explore how doctors informally police medical mistakes among themselves.  His work appears in journals such as Deviant Behavior and RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation…

Daniel J. Boches
Ashley Crooks-Allen is a Sociology Ph.D. candidate at the University of Georgia, where they focus on Black immigrant identity and social movements. Their dissertation is tentatively titled, “Mestizaje Undone: A Qualitative Social Media Analysis of Afro-Latinx Identity & Social Movements.” This work will take a qualitative approach to understanding how Afro-Latinx people use social media to make identity claims in relation to the Black Lives…

Ashley Crooks-Allen

Megan Steele

Jeff Patterson
Malissa is a PhD candidate in the department of sociology whose research interests are concerned with racial and gender discrimination, health, and social psychology. Her dissertation research uses a mixed-methods approach to explore: 1) how racial discrimination affects Black people's influence behavior at work and 2) the feeling rules and coping strategies Black and Asian Americans invoke when they experience …

Malissa Alinor
I am a doctoral candidate in my final year of the graduate program at the Department of Sociology at UGA. My research interests are in identity processes across the life course with a focus on mental health during the transition to adulthood. My teaching interests are in Sociological Theory, Gender and Work, Health, Social Psychology, and the Life Course. My research focuses on health and identity during the transition to adulthood.  In my…

Elizabeth Culatta

Jeffrey Gardner
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