More overseas adventures with UGA at Oxford!

New Publication Alert! Congratulations to Dr. Vanessa Gonlin and PhD candidates Chelsey Adams and Brittany Belser on their recent publications!

Welcome back everyone! We look forward to another great year of academic success and growth by our students! We are here to support your journey and help you reach your goals. Go Dawgs! 🐶 ❤️🖤

🎉Congratulations🎉 to Dr. Tenshi Kawashima on accepting a position as a Post-Doctoral Associate at New York University Abu Dhabi, a school of New York University in the United Arab Emirates. It is a two-year appointment with the possibility of renewal. Congratulations and best wishes, Dr. Kawashima!

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Department Head & Marienthal Professor, Dr. William Pridemore, recently published an article with Dr. Guillermo Escano and Dr. David McDowall examining the relative impact of get-tough laws and gang truces on homicide rates in El Salvador. @guillermo-escano.bsky.social

📣New publication alert!📣 What drives rule-breaking or withdrawal from supportive resources after prison? In an ethnographic study published in Criminology, Gillian Slee demonstrates how both everyday indignities and people’s desire for social belonging shape outcomes for individuals on parole.

Learn about the University of Georgia’s Sociology Department ‪@ugasociology.bsky.social‬ & other sociology departments in the 2025 ASA Guide to Graduate Departments of Sociology. Now completely online and free for ASA members. Also available for a fee to nonmembers. https://bit.ly/ASAGradGuide‬

Congratulations to Dr. Peng Huang on his newly published paper "Endogenous competition and the underrealized reproduction of infectious diseases" in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS).

Dr. Anna Rogers (2024 Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award and Sandy Beaver Excellence in Teaching Award winner) was recently interviewed by UGA's newspaper, The Red & Black, for their incoming freshman issue on her top 10 tricks for new students at UGA. www.redandblack.com/guides/uga/1...

Congratulations to Dr. Peng Huang! He is the recipient of this year’s Outstanding Article Publication Award from ASA’s Section on Mathematical Sociology, and Honorable Mention for the James S. Coleman Outstanding Article Award from ASA's Decision-Making, Social Networks, and Society Section.

UGA Sociology Department Head and Marienthal Professor, William Pridemore, is spending June at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security, and Law in Freiburg, Germany, as their Department of Criminology’s inaugural Barbara Huber Scholar where he will give two invited presentations.

We are excited to announce Brittany Belser and Keely Fox as recipients of UGA Graduate School fellowships! Brittany has been selected to receive the 2025-26 Phelps-Stokes Graduate Fellowship and Keely is the recipient of a Mary Erlanger Graduate Fellowship.

Congratulations to Chelsey Adams, Shelby Clark, Makeiva Jenkins and Stephanie Hanus-Knapp as recipients of graduate student teaching awards from the UGA Graduate School and the Center for Teaching and Learning. We are proud of the work they (and all our graduate students) do in serving UGA students!

Behind the whip cream is Dr. Otto at Shop With A Bulldawg's “Pie the Stars of UGA” fundraiser event. SWAB is a student-run 501(c)(3) organization that raises money to take Athens-Clarke County children holiday shopping with UGA students during their special event day in the Fall.

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Congratulations to UGA Sociology undergraduate student Zaynah Amir on her research presentation at the Southeastern Undergraduate Sociology Symposium, co-sponsored by Emory University and Morehouse College.

Congratulations to Dr. Shannon (Sociology and Criminal Justice Studies) on being awarded a grant from the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences Multidisciplinary Seed Grant Program for funding to develop a new course, Sociology of Prisons (SOCI 4510/6510).

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Congratulations to Sociology major (plus Psychology and Women's Studies!) Rayna J. Carter on winning the President’s Fulfilling the Dream Award as well as the 2025 Student Leader of the Year award from the Office of Engagement, Leadership, and Service. Keep up the good work Rayna!

Dr. Sarah Shannon is first-author on a new article published in Criminology: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10..... Interdisciplinary in scope, the journal publishes articles that advance the theoretical and research agenda of criminology and criminal justice.

It is Awards Season! Dr. Jim Coverdill has been selected as the recipient of the 2025 Lothar Tresp Outstanding Honors Professor Award. This award is presented by the Morehead Honors College and recognizes his superior teaching and dedication to Honors students. Congratulations Dr. Coverdill!

We are excited to announce that Dr. William Pridemore, Franklin Professor and Sociology Department Head, has been named the inaugural Marienthal Professor in Sociology in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences. franklin.uga.edu/news/stories...

Please join and help us welcome Dr. Jenny L. Davis from Vanderbilt University on Wednesday, March 12 at 3:15PM in Miller Learning Center Room 350 for her presentation "Algorithmic Reparation: From Fairness to Redress".

Department Head and Franklin Professor of Sociology, William Pridemore, is co-author on a newly published article in Justice Quarterly, one of two flagship journals in the field of criminology. You can read it here: www.tandfonline.com/.../10.../07...

It’s a pleasure to announce our 28th Member, The Journal of Historical Criminology. It’s diamond open access and shares our platform PubPub. Learn more at the link below. 🧡

We would like to share that UGA Sociology's Dr. Sarah Shannon is the winner of this year’s Felton Jenkins, Jr. Hall of Fame Faculty Award for her sustained commitment and stellar contributions to teaching and student success.

We are excited to announce the addition of 3 new faculty members - Julia Thomas, Dr. Gillian Slee and Dr. Derick S. Baum. Please give them a warm welcome and a hearty "Go Dawgs!"

Dr. Pablo Lapegna will take part in the "Histories of Commodities & the Environment" Symposium at Emory University on February 28th. He is joined by social scienctists and historians for a program devoted to research and questions on environmental history and the history of commodities.

We are excited to have faculty who will take part in panels for the 2025 Georgia Criminal Law Review Symposium on February 28 here at UGA.

Proud to announce that Dr. Diana Graizbord has been awarded tenure and promoted to Associate Professor! Promotion and tenure are significant achievements in academic life and a recognition of the valuable contributions made to UGA. Congratulations Diana!

We’re happy to share that Man-Kit (Karlo) Lei is the first author, with co-authors Mei Ling Ong (UGA Center for Family Research), Ron Simons (Sociology), and Steven Beach (Psychology), on a newly published article in Aging Advances. Check it out here: journals.lww.com/aa/fulltext/...

Join us on Wednesday, February 19 at 3:15PM at Miller Learning Center Room 350 as we welcome Dr. Meghan Rogers from the University of Iowa and her presentation: "Trade, Tolerance, and Transformation: How Globalization Reshapes Gender Equality and Female Homicide Victimization"