Much of Dr. Renzulli's research focuses on charter schools, the factors that influence their creation, and their effects on racial segregation. Recently, she wrote an article with Vincent Roscigno that highlights what we do and do not know about the connection between charter schools and student achievement. The article appeared in the February 2007 edition of Contexts.
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 23 faculty, 5 staff members, 32 graduate students, and almost 400 undergraduate majors. Read more...
Noteworthy
- The department is recruiting for an associate professor with teaching and research interests in the area of crime, law, and deviance. The application deadline is October 15, 2008.
- In collaboration with the Institute of Higher Education, the Department of Sociology will host a conference discussing the future of the academic profession. Organized by Joseph C. Hermanowicz, the conference, entitled "Wither the American Academic Profession? Its Changing Forms and Functions," will take place in Meigs Hall April 25-26. The conference is free and open to the public. Click here for a copy of the program.
- Joyce Bell has been selected for the 2008-2010 class of Lilly Teaching Fellows.
- Jim Coverdill was awarded the prestigious Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professorship in 2008.
- Patricia Richards won the University of Georgia's Richard B. Russell Teaching Award in 2008.
- Woody Beck won the First-Year Seminar Outstanding Instructor Award in 2008.
- Linda Grant won the Graduate School Oustanding Mentoring Award for the Social and Behavorial Sciences in 2008.
- Linda Renzulli has won a M.G. Michael Award, which recognizes new initiatives in scholarship, from the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Georgia in 2008.
- 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”)
- Callie Burt has received a Phelps-Stokes Fellowship, a competitive award given by the Graduate School to students whose research examines the role of Blacks in American civilization.
- Linda Grant is the 2007 co-recipient of the Sociologists for Women in Society’s Feminist Mentoring Award. This award recognizes Linda’s years of service to the discipline and to her role in making the discipline a more hospitable place for women.
- Graduate student Jennifer McMahon has been awarded the Verizon Research Fellowship for the study of domestic violence.
- Meredith Huey and Elizabeth Cherry were selected by the Graduate School to receive Dissertation Completion Awards.
- Joyce Bell's article, "Diversity in Everyday Discourse: The Cultural Ambiguities and Consequences of 'Happy Talk'," was published in the December 2007 issue of the /American Sociological Review/.
- Patricia Richards won a Special Sandy Beaver Teaching Award from the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Georgia in 2007.
