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Join UGA Sociology as we welcome Dr. Jenny Davis from Vanderbilt University.   Jenny L. Davis is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair and Professor of Sociology at Vanderbilt University, with an Honorary Professorship at the Australian National University. She works at the intersection of social psychology and technology studies, focusing on the ways social forces embed within and are affected by, technological systems. Her book, How…

Speaker - Dr. Jenny Davis / Vanderbilt University
Join UGA Sociology as we welcome Dr. Meghan Rogers, Assistant Professor / Department of Sociology and Criminology from the University of Iowa.   Dr. Rogers research focuses on the complexities of crime across nations. Drawing from a diverse array of theoretical and methodological approaches, her recent research addresses femicide, the gender gap in homicide, explanations for variation in homicide victimization across nations, and crime…

Speaker - Dr. Meghan Rogers / University of Iowa
Please join the Sociology Department in presenting a job talk by Doctoral candidate Chelsey Adams entitled: “Black-White Differences in Wealth, Health, and Healthcare Access in the Rural South.” Chelsey currently teaches SOCI 3000 Sociology in Film.

JOB TALK: “Black-White Differences in Wealth, Health, and Healthcare Access in the Rural South”
Please join the Sociology Department in presenting a job talk by Doctoral candidate Krysten Long entitled: “Color Coded: Caricatures, Myths, Tropes, and Differentiations in Stereotypes of Black Women Based on Skin Tone in the United States.” Krysten currently teaches SOCI 3590 Qualitative Methods and SOCI 3650 Colorism and Hairism in Communities of Color.

JOB TALK: “Color Coded: Caricatures, Myths, Tropes, and Differentiations in Stereotypes of Black Women Based on Skin Tone in the United States.”
Please join the Sociology Department in presenting a job talk by Doctoral candidate Tenshi Kawashima entitled:  "The Role of Work Identity in Distributive Justice Processes." Tenshi currently teaches SOCI 3730 Social Psychology.

JOB TALK: "The Role of Work Identity in Distributive Justice Processes."
Please join the Sociology Department in presenting a job talk by Doctoral candidate Kylie Smith entitled: “Gaming, Masculinities, and Identity Threat.” 

JOB TALK: “Gaming, Masculinities, and Identity Threat.”
Please join the Sociology Department in presenting a job talk by Doctoral candidate Makeiva Jenkins entitled: “Creating Counternarratives: Single Stay-at-Home Mothers (SAHMs), Entrepreneurship, and Challenging Cultural Understandings.”

JOB TALK: “Creating Counternarratives: Single Stay-at-Home Mothers (SAHMs), Entrepreneurship, and Challenging Cultural Understandings.”
Status is a form of inequality based on esteem, respect, and honor. It is ancient and universal yet nevertheless pervades modern institutions, organizations and everyday life. Although we see it all around us in the workplace, the classroom, the neighborhoods we live in, the groups we socialize in, we barely understand status as a social process, what it is and why it matters both to individuals and for inequality in society. Status is often…

“STATUS: Why Is It Everywhere? Why Does It Matter?”
This talk provides an in-depth exploration of the lives of refugees and migrants, based on in-depth ethnographic research conducted in Malaysia, which is home to an estimated 8 million foreigners (and over half a million displaced/forced migrants).  The focus is on how migrant, displaced and undocumented groups and communities play vital roles economically yet continue to face significant structural and institutional challenges in host…

"Myths of the Pendatang: Politics of Refugees and Temporariness in the Global South"
Join the UGA Sociology Department for a talk with Christopher Wildeman from Duke University titled “How Much Does Having a Family Member Incarcerated Cost” were he will discuss the following ideas. “How Much Does Having a Family Member Incarcerated Cost” Garrett Baker/Duke University Sarah Jobe/Duke University Christopher Wildeman/Duke University & ROCKWOOL Foundation Research Unit ABSTRACT Each year, several million Americans spend a…

“How Much Does Having a Family Member Incarcerated Cost”
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