Dr. Stephen Sills selected for TEDxGreensboro
Dr. Sills will be giving a TEDx talk on March 22, 2018. Read more here.
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Toya Dixon publishes essays on race and power
Recent MA graduate and Lecturer, Toya Dixon, has published a series of 3 articles on Impakter, an online magazine aimed at encouraging dialogue across generational cohorts on issues related to culture, society, style and philanthropy. While at UNCG, Toya examined how Beth Richie’s “trap of loyalty” concept influenced Black women’s lives… Continue reading…
Dr. Steve Kroll-Smith Explores Impact of Disasters on Identity and Inequality
https://newsandfeatures.uncg.edu/professor-explores-disasters-identity-inequality/
Dr. Brooks Dollar on North Carolina Family Courts
UNCG Criminologist Professor Cindy Brooks Dollar summarizes her research on family courts in the latest issue of The Bulletin by the North Carolina Sociological Association. Read about it on page four here: Fall2017_NCSA Newsletter
Sociology graduate student, Toya Dixon, presented her research at the University’s 3-minute thesis (3MT) competition
Sociology graduate student Toya Dixon presented her research at the University’s 3-minute thesis (3MT) competition on October 25th. Toya’s thesis is titled “America’s Backbone: A Contemporary Analysis of Black Women and the Trap of Loyalty.” Her research investigates how Black women are expected to silently endure various forms abuse while… Continue reading…
Professor Stephen Sills Puts Sociology to Work
UNCG Sociologist Dr. Stephen Sills is involved in many community-engaged scholarly activities. Read about one of his most recent endeavors here.
Professor Cureton Delivers the Seventh Annual Reynolds Lecture at Greensboro College
Dr. Steven R. Cureton gave a powerful talk on how to understand racism in the U.S. in a featured presentation at Greensboro College on October 26, 2017.
Two new books from UNCG sociologists
Two new books from UNCG sociologists are being published this year! Professor Daynes’ On Ethnography Professor Kroll-Smith’s Left to Chance: Hurricane Katrina and the Story of Two New Orleans Neighborhoods
Professor Kroll-Smith on Disaster, Recovery, and Katrina
Dr. Kroll-Smith on his latest research: Miss Katrina is Not Finished with Me: Acknowledging the Explanatory Overreach of Recovery
Dr. A. Kuperberg has New Blog Post for Scatterplot
the unruly darlings of public sociology The following is a guest post by Arielle Kuperberg. In a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed, Mark Regnerus argues that men aren’t getting married because “sex has become rather cheap” (the op-ed is behind a paywall, but you can read excerpts here), and he elaborates the… Continue reading…