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Featured News
Undergraduate Director Visits Kanazawa University
Our Director of Undergraduate Studies Jung Ha Kim recently gave a lecture at Kanazawa University on how to develop domestic/global field schools. Please see attached flyer for more info.
#GSUSOCI #DomesticFieldSchool #KanazawaUniversity 金沢大学
Mindy Stombler is the recipient of the 2017 Carla B. Howery Award
Congratulations to Dr. Mindy Stombler for winning a national teaching award! Dr. Stombler is the recipient of the 2017 Carla B. Howery Award for Developing Teacher-Scholars. Awarded by the American Sociological Association’s Teaching and Learning Section, the Howery Award recognizes contributions to teaching sociology through training and mentoring future teacher-scholars. This photo was taken after… more »
Penny Harvey was the recipient of the 2017 Student Paper Competitions Award
One of our Ph.D. students, Penny Harvey was the recipient of the 2017 Student Paper Competitions Award Winning Abstracts at SSSP.
Winning Title: “The Relevance of Teaching Social Problems in a Diverse World”
Abstract: These syllabi were designed for an introduction to social problems course. This course is an elective for social sciences and required for sociology… more »
Celebration of Scholarship
Welcome to the Georgia State University Department of Sociology’s inaugural Celebration of Scholarship! Sociological scholarship offers a unique lens through which to understand complex social processes, systems of inequality, community institutions, and dynamic patterns of group interaction, whether present in our backyard of metro Atlanta or in other corners… more »
2017 Sociology Faculty Promotions!
The University’s promotion process is now officially complete. More important, We are thrilled to formally announce that members of our faculty were successful in this process
Katie Acosta is now Associate Professor of Sociology Rosalind Chou is now Associate Professor of Sociology Jung Ha Kim is now Principal Senior Lecturer of Sociology… more »
Dr. Eric Wright receives Hosea Williams Community Service Award
Our Chair, Dr. Eric Wright received the Hosea Williams Community Service Award at the 34th Annual MLK Commemoration Ceremony. Congrats!!!
(Pictured with #SOCI Ph.D. student, Bernard McCrary)
GSU Field School Community Service Video
Here is the #GSUSOCI Field School Community Service Video in Vine City Park – March 2016
New Research from GSU’s Dr. Kail & Dawn Carr, FSU.
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 Press Release
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 »
