Please help us in congratulating Ph.D. candidate Chandra Ward-Stefanik on being selected as an Southern Regional Education Board – State Doctoral Scholars dissertation fellow.
Chandra’s dissertation examines how the disruption of place based social ties influence the well-being of former public housing residents both prior to and after relocation. She is using panel data that she helped… more »
New research from GSU’s Dr. Kail (and co-author Dawn Carr, FSU) offers us findings that could improve the health of seniors! Volunteering is possibly part of the solution.
Video: http://www.fox5atlanta.com/health/fox-medical-team/193013540-story
Atlanta Youth Count & Needs Assessment 2016 Report There are 3,374 homeless and runaway youth in shelters, on the streets or in other precarious housing situations in the Atlanta metro area, according to the results of a project by Georgia State University and its partners to count and assess the area’s homeless youth.The estimate comes… more »
Please join us in congratulating 6 of our Grad Students on being selected as the 2016-2017 #GSUSOCI Urban Fellows. The Urban Fellows Program is an interdisciplinary initiative of the Center for the Comparative Study of Metropolitan Growth in the College of Law. Top graduate students are selected from across #GSU and… more »
It is with great pleasure that we announce the promotion of three outstanding faculty members;
Dr. Erin Ruel – Promoted to Professor.
Dr. Tomeka Davis – Promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure
Dr. Matt Gayman – Promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure
Congratulations all!
Dr. Mindy Stombler was recently awarded the first annual Graduate Pedagogical Mentorship Award at Georgia State University. This award, presented by the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning honors a faculty member who has served as a mentor and inspiration to graduate student teachers.
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Megan Tesene, doctoral candidate, was awarded the Certificate of Excellence in College Teaching at the 2016 CETL Conference on Scholarly Teaching. Congratulations, Megan!
Ph.D. candidate Desmond Goss received the 2016 Provost’s Dissertation Fellowship (formerly known as the Final Year Fellowship) which is an internal program targeting doctoral students’ degree completion.
Desmond’s dissertation is tilted; “‘Chocolate Joy’: Race and Masculinities in Gay Porn.”
Congratulations Desmond on winning this prestigious award!
Dr. Cory Albertson and GSU alum Dr. Moon Charania presented their forthcoming book chapter “Single White Female: Queer Trauma and Feminist Melancholy in the New Disney” at the International Girls’ Studies Association inaugural conference at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England. #IGSA2016
The Department of Sociology would like to congratulate Mr. Clinton Boyd Jr. on receiving a Doris Duke Fellowship for the Promotion of Child Well-Being from Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago.
This Fellowship was developed to create new policy and practice relevant knowledge on the dynamics of abuse and neglect and effective strategies… more »
