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Please join the Sociology Department in presenting a job talk by Doctoral candidate Krysten Long entitled: “Color Coded: Caricatures, Myths, Tropes, and Differentiations in Stereotypes of Black Women Based on Skin Tone in the United States.” Krysten currently teaches SOCI 3590 Qualitative Methods and SOCI 3650 Colorism and Hairism in Communities of Color.

JOB TALK: “Color Coded: Caricatures, Myths, Tropes, and Differentiations in Stereotypes of Black Women Based on Skin Tone in the United States.”
Please join the Sociology Department in presenting a job talk by Doctoral candidate Tenshi Kawashima entitled:  "The Role of Work Identity in Distributive Justice Processes." Tenshi currently teaches SOCI 3730 Social Psychology.

JOB TALK: "The Role of Work Identity in Distributive Justice Processes."
Please join the Sociology Department in presenting a job talk by Doctoral candidate Kylie Smith entitled: “Gaming, Masculinities, and Identity Threat.” 

JOB TALK: “Gaming, Masculinities, and Identity Threat.”
Please join the Sociology Department in presenting a job talk by Doctoral candidate Makeiva Jenkins entitled: “Creating Counternarratives: Single Stay-at-Home Mothers (SAHMs), Entrepreneurship, and Challenging Cultural Understandings.”

JOB TALK: “Creating Counternarratives: Single Stay-at-Home Mothers (SAHMs), Entrepreneurship, and Challenging Cultural Understandings.”
Status is a form of inequality based on esteem, respect, and honor. It is ancient and universal yet nevertheless pervades modern institutions, organizations and everyday life. Although we see it all around us in the workplace, the classroom, the neighborhoods we live in, the groups we socialize in, we barely understand status as a social process, what it is and why it matters both to individuals and for inequality in society. Status is often…

“STATUS: Why Is It Everywhere? Why Does It Matter?”
This talk provides an in-depth exploration of the lives of refugees and migrants, based on in-depth ethnographic research conducted in Malaysia, which is home to an estimated 8 million foreigners (and over half a million displaced/forced migrants).  The focus is on how migrant, displaced and undocumented groups and communities play vital roles economically yet continue to face significant structural and institutional challenges in host…

"Myths of the Pendatang: Politics of Refugees and Temporariness in the Global South"
Join the UGA Sociology Department for a talk with Christopher Wildeman from Duke University titled “How Much Does Having a Family Member Incarcerated Cost” were he will discuss the following ideas. “How Much Does Having a Family Member Incarcerated Cost” Garrett Baker/Duke University Sarah Jobe/Duke University Christopher Wildeman/Duke University & ROCKWOOL Foundation Research Unit ABSTRACT Each year, several million Americans spend a…

“How Much Does Having a Family Member Incarcerated Cost”
This presentation synthesizes the findings from two separate but related research efforts examining the tactics employed by the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) in the 20th century to inculcate settlers in the United States with pyrophobic values. By examining USFS fire suppression rhetoric from 1905-present, as well as carrying out a systematic analysis of Smokey Bear campaign materials, these combined research efforts reveal how settler colonial…

“Little Science, Lots of Advertising: How the U.S. Forest Service Suppressed Cultural Burning”
Join the Department of Sociology for a Speaker Event with our newest Doctor!  Alyssa Brown, Ph.D. Nov 1, 3:00-4:00 at the Miller Learning Center, Room 214.

Special Speaker Event!
Join us on Friday 10/13 at 3PM as Sarah Groh explores the health care utilization and health behaviors of lesbian women.  Given the barriers to health care along dimensions of gender, race, and class within a political climate that targets LGBTQ+ health care specifically, understanding how these barriers affect health decisions and health care utilization has important policy implications for the lives of lesbian women.  

Job Talk: Health Care Access and Health Behaviors for Lesbian Women
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