Dr. Clay-Warner studies responses to injustice. Recently, she has examined how identities alter the effects of procedural and distributive justice on workplace attitudes. She also studies injustice in the form of criminal victimization. Here she has investigated women's reactions to sexual violence, with a focus on rape reporting patterns.
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
- William Finlay won a M.G. Michael Award from the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Georgia in 2009-2010.
- Linda Renzulli has received a two-year, $260,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study organizational mortality in charter schools.
- Ron Simons has received a $1 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control to study community context and violence among African American youth.
- 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:
Daniel Buffington – University of North Carolina at Wilmington
Callie Burt – University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Elizabeth Cherry – Manhattanville College
Kimberly Kelly – Mississippi State University
Heather Macpherson Parrott – Long Island University
Jennifer McMahon-Howard – Kennesaw State 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.
