UNCG Sociology graduate students Kelly Childress and Elizabeth Moberly both presented their scholarly work at the November 2019 meeting of the American Society of Criminology in San Francisco, California. Childress’ paper, co-authored with Dr. Kauzlarich, connected intersectional, black feminist, and black criminology with state crime studies. This is the first… Continue reading…
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 an excellent piece of scholarship. Read one of the most recent reviews of the monograph here.
Professor Steven Cureton has just published another book. Read about it here!
UNCG Sociologist Dr. Gwen Hunnicutt has just had her first book published by Routledge Press. The book, Gender Violence in Ecofeminist Perspective: Intersections of Animal Oppression, Patriarchy and Domination of the Earth, advances an eco-centered, eco-feminist informed discussion about the ways in which our relationship to “nature” is bound up with gender, patriarchy,… Continue reading…
Associate Professor of Sociology Dr. Shelly Brown-Jeffy is part of a team that just received an important and prestigious NSF grant to study and enhance diversity at UNCG. Read about this exciting accomplishment here.
The UNCG Sociology department invites applications for the position of full-time Lecturer. The position is for the Spring 2020 semester with the possibility of renewal. The job will involve advising undergraduate students and teaching four courses. Apply here: https://spartantalent.uncg.edu/postings/15361
UNCG Sociologist Dr. Trevor Hoppe’s recent book, Punishing Disease: HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness (University of California Press), has received two significant awards: The American Sociological Association’s Sociology of Sexualities 2019 Distinguished Book Award and the Edwin H. Sutherland Outstanding Scholarship Book Award, granted by the Law & Society… Continue reading…
Dr. Sefika Kumral Karatasli, who is joining UNCG Sociology this fall, has been awarded the 2019 Theda Skocpol Dissertation Award from the American Sociological Association’s Comparative and Historical section. Dr. Kumral Karatasli’s dissertation is titled “Democracy and Violence: Social Origins of Anti-Kurdish Riots in Turkey.”
On April 22, UNCG Sociology hosted our annual AKD and departmental awards ceremony. Dozens of students were honored for their outstanding achievements.
