UGA Sociology

06/02/2026

🎉Congratulations🎉 to Dr. Alex Smith who has accepted a Visiting Assistant Professor position in the Department of Sociology at the College of Charleston (where he'll be joining fellow UGA Sociology alum Heath Hoffman). Way to go Alex! 👏👏

05/29/2026

Happy Friday! It's quiet around Baldwin Hall so everyone must be enjoying their summer. A couple of brain teasers to help pass the time.

05/27/2026

🔔Need a class for Fall 2026?🔔

SOCI 3000 Sociology of Film
Popular Hollywood films as they illustrate culture, social class, race, gender, identity, and other sociological concepts.
TR 4:35-5:55PM
CRN 67356
Dr. Thompson

SOCI 3620 Social Problems
The causes, consequences, and social construction of American social problems, including poverty, crime and delinquency, environmental degradation, and race and ethnic relations.
TR 2:55-4:15PM
CRN 67357
Dr. Slee
(Please note that you CANNOT take 3620 if you have previously taken SOCI 2600)

SOCI 4830 Sociology of Law
The nature of law, and the ways the legal system reflects its broader social context.
TR 9:55-11:15AM
CRN 67357
Dr. Mosseri

05/27/2026

📢Fall 2026 course announcement!📢

SOCI 3620 Social Problems

Dr. Gillian Slee
CRN 65902
Baldwin 311
Tuesday / Thursday
2:55 - 4:15 PM

The causes, consequences, and social construction of American social problems, including poverty, crime and delinquency, environmental degradation, and race and ethnic relations.

NOTE: Students who previously took this course as SOCI 2600 CANNOT take this version of SOCI 3620

05/19/2026

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05/18/2026

We are excited to announce that Gillian Slee has received the Law & Society Association Article Prize for 2026 for her paper titled "Home but not free: Rule-breaking, withdrawal, and dignity in reentry"! 👏👏

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.

By tracing the subtle harms of community supervision, Dr. Slee's research extends how we understand poverty governance, institutional failure, and the human toll of reentry.

https://doi.org/10.1111%2F1745-9125.12408

05/18/2026

📖 Fresh off the press! 📖 Peng Huang has a new solo-authored paper titled “Micro–Macro Analysis of Network Change”, published in Social Networks.

Open access through this link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2026.04.009

Highlights:

•Propose a temporal micro effects on macro structure method for network change.
•Immediate effect model compares two time points using KOB decomposition.
•Cumulative effect model captures the impact of time-varying treatments using g-formula.
•The framework accommodates time-varying covariates and various longitudinal network models.
•Demonstrate methods with weighted/valued network data of migration flows.

05/15/2026

A week ago today we celebrated the achievements of our 2026 graduates, award winners, families & friends! We are incredibly proud of your hard work and grateful to have shared in your journey. We can’t wait to see the exciting paths all of you take next.

05/14/2026

🎉Congratulations🎉 to Dr. Chelsey Adams who has accepted a faculty position at Georgia College and State University! Beginning this Fall, she will be a lecturer in the Department of Government & Sociology. 👏👏

05/14/2026

There are still seats available in this Inside-Out course for the fall!

MUSI 3100 Creativity - no prior experience in the arts required! (It can count as a CJ major elective in the "Other" category since it's an experiential learning opportunity inside a correctional facility)

The class, through readings, discussion and activity, will explore what is meant to be “creative” and how we can use creativity in our everyday life and as a society to problem solve, and also to bring joy, through music, dance, art, poetry, etc.

Scan the QR code for the application. Deadline to apply is June 2.