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Dr. Hoppe featured in UNCG Research Magazine

Posted on March 10, 2020

Read about Dr. Hoppe’s research here.


UNCG Sociology graduate students present at ASC

Posted on November 19, 2019

UNCG Sociology graduate students Kelly Childress and Elizabeth Moberly both presented their scholarly work at the November 2019 meeting of the American…


New review of Dr. Kroll-Smith’s book

Posted on November 5, 2019

Our own Dr. Steve Kroll-Smith’s book, Recovering Inequality: Hurricane Katrina, the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, and the aftermath of Disaster (2018), is…


UNCG Sociologist Dr. Steven Cureton publishes new book

Posted on October 31, 2019

Professor Steven Cureton has just published another book. Read about it here!


Dr. Gwen Hunnicutt publishes new book on gender violence

Posted on October 28, 2019

UNCG Sociologist Dr. Gwen Hunnicutt has just had her first book published by Routledge Press. The book, Gender Violence in Ecofeminist Perspective: Intersections…


Dr. Shelly Brown-Jeffy is co-principal investigator on large NSF grant.

Posted on October 22, 2019

Associate Professor of Sociology Dr. Shelly Brown-Jeffy is part of a team that just received an important and prestigious NSF grant to…


We’re hiring!

Posted on September 23, 2019

The UNCG Sociology department invites applications for the position of full-time Lecturer. The position is for the Spring 2020 semester with the…



Dr. Trevor Hoppe honored with two major book awards

Posted on June 10, 2019

UNCG Sociologist Dr. Trevor Hoppe’s recent book, Punishing Disease: HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness (University of California Press), has received two…


Dr. Sefika Kumral Karatasli receives prestigious award

Posted on June 10, 2019

Dr. Sefika Kumral Karatasli, who is joining UNCG Sociology this fall, has been awarded the 2019 Theda Skocpol Dissertation Award from the…