News
- 10/24/11 - The Teaching Committee is pleased to announce Bobby Jo Otto is the 2012 Teaching Associate. Please join us in congratulating her!
- 9/19/11 - Professor Deirdre Oakley recently appeared as a news feature on the College of Arts & Sciences website for her work investigating effects of the Federal Empowerment Zone and Enterprise Community Initiative on Chicago.
- 9/02/11 - The Department of Sociology at Georgia State University invites applications for two anticipated tenure track assistant professor positions, beginning in August 2012, pending budgetary approval.
- 07/27/11 - Welcome to Rosalind Chou, New Assistant Professor for Fall 2011
- 07/19/11 - Ralph LaRossa announces the release of his new book, "Of War and Men: World War II in the Lives of Fathers and Their Families" published by the University of Chicago Press.
- 06/30/11 - Congratulations to Adia Harvey Wingfield on her election to the Council for the American Sociological Association's Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities
- 5/25/11 - 11Alive News interviews Deirdre Oakley on 2010 census data indicating a migration of black families relocating from Atlanta to the suburbs.
- 5/03/11 - Sociology Department Celebrates 2011 Service Milestones
- 4/19/11 - Congratulations to Marni Brown on her election as the Vice-President of SWS-South
- 4/18/11 - Professor Adia Harvey Wingfield recognized as an Outstanding Author Contribution Award Winner at the Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2011 for her work "Caring, curing, and the community: Black masculinity in a feminized profession".
- 3/31/11 - Congratulations to 2011 Department Student Award Winners
- 2/21/11 - WABE News interviews Deirdre Oakley on US census data indicating an increase in the number of African Americans moving to the south.
- 2/01/11 - Now accepting applications for an anticipated tenure track assistant professor position beginning in August 2011.
- 1/28/11 - Adia Harvey Wingfield's book "Changing Times for Black Professionals" now available from Routledge.
- 06/23/10 - Congratulations to Dr. Oakley on her election to the Council for the ASA Section on Sociological Practice and Public Sociology.
- 06/09/10 - Congratulations to Dr. Oakley on her election to the Committee on Nominations of the American Sociological Association.
- 06/08/10 - Congratulations to Dr. Harvey Wingfield on her election to the Council for The Race, Gender, and Class Section of the American Sociological Association.
- 06/07/10 - Ph.D. student Orsolya Kolozsvari-Wright recently appeared in the latest issue of the Southern Sociologist for contributing an innovative teaching technique.
- 06/03/10 - Congratulations to Dr. Wendy Simonds on her election as the 2011-2012 President of the Society for the Study of Social Problems.
- 05/17/10 - Dr. Harvey Wingfield’s article, “Racializing the Glass Escalator: Reconsidering Men’s Experiences with Women’s Work” won the 2010 Race, Class, & Gender Section's Distinguished Article Award from the American Sociological Association.
- 5/12/10 - Transporting Atlanta by Dr. Miriam Konrad available in paperback from SUNY Press this July.
