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Congratulations to our graduate student, Emily Tingle, on being a recipient of this award!

ASA is pleased to announce the 2026 Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant recipients. These 25 exceptional research projects by a talented group of advanced graduate students were chosen for their intellectual merit and potential broader impacts. bit.ly/ASA26DDRIG

🥳Congratulations🥳 to Emily Tingle! She is one of the recipients of the 2026 ASA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant that supports theoretically grounded empirical investigations to advance understanding of fundamental social processes.

More information on the grant here: https://www.asanet.org/academic-professional-resources/asa-grants-and-fellowships/asa-doctoral-dissertation-research-improvement-grants-asa-ddrig/

Way to go Emily! 👏👏

ASA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants (ASA DDRIG) | American Sociological Association The ASA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants (ASA DDRIG) program supports theoretically grounded empirical investigations to advance

Department Head and Marienthal Professor of Sociology, William Pridemore, and his co-author, Guillermo Escaño (Villanova University, Department of Sociology and Criminology), are the recipients of this year’s Distinguished Scholarly Paper Award from the American Sociological Association’s Section on Drugs and Society. Their article, on population-level alcohol consumption and homicide rates in Latin America, can be found here:

https://academic.oup.com/bjc/article/64/3/656/7304370

🎉Congratulations🎉 to Dr. Alex Smith who has accepted a Visiting Assistant Professor position in the Department of Sociology at the College of Charleston (where he'll be joining fellow UGA Sociology alum Heath Hoffman). Way to go Alex! 👏👏

Happy Friday! It's quiet around Baldwin Hall so everyone must be enjoying their summer. A couple of brain teasers to help pass the time.

🔔Need a class for Fall 2026?🔔

SOCI 3000 Sociology of Film
Popular Hollywood films as they illustrate culture, social class, race, gender, identity, and other sociological concepts.
TR 4:35-5:55PM
CRN 67356
Dr. Thompson

SOCI 3620 Social Problems
The causes, consequences, and social construction of American social problems, including poverty, crime and delinquency, environmental degradation, and race and ethnic relations.
TR 2:55-4:15PM
CRN 67357
Dr. Slee
(Please note that you CANNOT take 3620 if you have previously taken SOCI 2600)

SOCI 4830 Sociology of Law
The nature of law, and the ways the legal system reflects its broader social context.
TR 9:55-11:15AM
CRN 67357
Dr. Mosseri

📢Fall 2026 course announcement!📢

SOCI 3620 Social Problems

Dr. Gillian Slee
CRN 65902
Baldwin 311
Tuesday / Thursday
2:55 - 4:15 PM

The causes, consequences, and social construction of American social problems, including poverty, crime and delinquency, environmental degradation, and race and ethnic relations.

NOTE: Students who previously took this course as SOCI 2600 CANNOT take this version of SOCI 3620

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We are excited to announce that Gillian Slee has received the Law & Society Association Article Prize for 2026 for her paper titled "Home but not free: Rule-breaking, withdrawal, and dignity in reentry"! 👏👏

What drives rule-breaking or withdrawal from supportive resources after prison? In an ethnographic study published in Criminology, Gillian Slee demonstrates how both everyday indignities and people’s desire for social belonging shape outcomes for individuals on parole.

By tracing the subtle harms of community supervision, Dr. Slee's research extends how we understand poverty governance, institutional failure, and the human toll of reentry.

https://doi.org/10.1111%2F1745-9125.12408

📖 Fresh off the press! 📖 Peng Huang has a new solo-authored paper titled “Micro–Macro Analysis of Network Change”, published in Social Networks.

Open access through this link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2026.04.009

Highlights:

•Propose a temporal micro effects on macro structure method for network change.
•Immediate effect model compares two time points using KOB decomposition.
•Cumulative effect model captures the impact of time-varying treatments using g-formula.
•The framework accommodates time-varying covariates and various longitudinal network models.
•Demonstrate methods with weighted/valued network data of migration flows.

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