Dr. Dowd has recently begun a study of the ways in which desire or longing become manifest at various points in the life course.
Welcome to the Department of Sociology at the University of Georgia. We offer both graduate and undergraduate academic program degrees. Affiliated with the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, the department includes a renowned faculty, the Laboratory for the Study of Social Interaction (LaSSI), and is associated with the Institute for Behavioral Research. We are a department of 17 faculty, 5 staff members, 33 graduate students, and almost 250 undergraduate majors. Read more...
Noteworthy
- Joyce Bell was awarded the Sarah H. Moss Fellowship for 2009-2010.
- David Smilde was awarded the Willson Center Fellowship for 2009-2010.
- Jeremy Reynolds won a Special Sandy Beaver Award from the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Georgia in 2008-2009.
- Dawn Robinson won the University of Georgia's Excellence in Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award for 2008-2009.
- Congratulations to our graduating Ph.D. students, all of whom will begin tenure-track positions in the fall: Callie Burt- University of Massachusetts at Amherst; Daniel Buffington – University of North Carolina at Wilmington; Elizabeth Cherry – Manhattanville College; Kimberly Kelly – Mississippi State University; Jennifer McMahon-Howard – Kennesaw State University; Heather Macpherson Parrott – Long Island University.
- Xiaoli Su has been awarded a Verizon/Hopeline Fellowship for her research on domestic violence.
- Daniel Shank has been awarded both the ASA Social Psychology Section's Graduate Student Paper Award and the Southern Sociological Society’s Graduate Odum Award for his paper "Perceived Justice of Coercive Computers".
- Maria Paino has received the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award from UGA’s Center for Teaching and Learning.
- Christen Bradley has been selected for the Preparing Future Faculty Program, sponsored by the Center for Teaching and Learning.
- Jackson Bunch has been awarded the sociology department’s B.O. Williams Award.
- Jennifer McMahon-Howard has been awarded the sociology department’s Certificate of Excellence.
- Jennifer McMahon-Howard has been awarded a Dissertation Improvement grant from the National Science Foundation for her research on United States rape laws.
- Jennifer McMahon-Howard has been named an American Dissertation Fellow by the American Association of University Women.
- Ron Simons has received a five-year, $3 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to continue his longitudinal study of African-American families (the Family and Community Health Study or FACHS).
- Dawn Robinson and Jody Clay-Warner have been awarded a $717,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for their research on emotional segues (“DHB Testing a Dynamic Theory of Social Emotion Using Infrared Imaging”)
