Labs Laboratory for the Study of Social Interaction The Laboratory for the Study of Social Interaction is located in the Department of Sociology at the University of Georgia. LaSSI houses research on basic processes in social interaction including (a) socioemotional processes (b) status and power processes (c) justice and injustice processes (d) individual and group identity processes. Workshops Dirty History Organized in 2016, Dirty History is an interdisciplinary workshop for scholars working at the intersection of agriculture, environment, and capitalism. Histories of food and farming have reemerged as an important topic in recent years. The impact of anthropogenic climate change on global food supply, debates around GMOs and industrial agriculture, food deserts for minority communities in the United States, and the struggles of migrant farmworkers have all sparked new kinds of research at the intersection of history, geography, anthropology, and literary criticism. Food studies has also encouraged humanistic scholars to cross the border into scientific fields like ecology, soil science, archeology, plant biology, genomics, and engineering. To provide a space for the further development of interdisciplinary, historically-grounded scholarship around issues of agriculture, environment, and capitalism, the organizers of “Dirty History” invite both faculty and advanced graduate students to submit papers for a monthly workshop in which visiting researchers can share their ideas and arguments with other scholars already working in the field. Papers (25-35 pages) will be circulated two weeks prior to the meeting, and all attendees will have read it in advance. We accept dissertation chapters, book chapters, and article drafts. Families, Communities, and Health Workshop The Families, Communities, and Health Workshop is an ongoing group of faculty and graduate students who meet regularly to discuss the use of life course models to explain physical and mental health, criminal offending, and romantic relationships. Students and faculty identify papers they would like to co-author with others in the group. In most cases, these papers utilize decades of data collected as part of the Family and Community Health Study (FACHS) and the Iowa Youth and Families Project (IYFP). The group provides an opportunity for members to present their findings and to solicit suggestions regarding the preparation of research papers for publication.
