Recent HSOC News

Current News and Events

• Gloria Calhoun Publishes in Technology and Culture

  November 25, 2019

  
  HSOC graduate student Gloria Calhoun recently published her article, "Infrastructre's Industrial Context:  How the Telegraph Shaped the Wire Industry (1845-1910) in the flagship journal Technology and Culture.

• Social Justice Is Foregrounded in School of History and Sociology Spring Speakers Series Encompassing Power, Inequity, and Change

  November 25, 2019

  

  For over two decades, the Georgia Institute of Technology School of History and Sociology's (HSOC) Speaker Series has brought world-renowned academics to campus, introducing students to critical perspectives on a range of issues while broadening HSOC's scope by connecting with organizations across Georgia Tech. 

• New Publication Explores the Global Implications of Meat Production and Consumption

  November 24, 2019

  
  Drawing on concrete examples, the contributors to Global Meat explore the implications of the rise of a global meat industry for a range of social and environmental issues, including climate change, clean water supplies, hunger, workers’ rights, and the t

• Allen Hyde Publishes Two New Articles

  November 18, 2019

  
  Assistant professor Allen Hyde recently published two articles: "Degrees of Inequality" and "Left Behind?"

• Michney Receives 2019 GHRAC Award for Excellence in the Educational Use of Historical Records

  October 28, 2019

  
  Dr. Todd Michney received the 2019 Georgia Historical Records Advisory Council Award for Excellence in the Educational Use of Historical Records for his work with the Ivan Allen Digital Archive.

• Willie Pearson Reappointed to National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Advisory Committee

  October 23, 2019

  

  Willie Pearson, professor in the Georgia Institute of Technology School of History and Sociology (HSOC), was recently reappointed to the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) Advisory Committee.

• Amy D'Unger Named Chancellor's Learning Scholar by USG Board of Regents

  October 9, 2019

  

  Amy D'Unger, senior academic professional and associate director of undergraduate studies in the Georgia Institute of Technology School of History and Sociology, has been selected by the University System of Georgia (USG) Board of Regents to be a Chancellor's Learning Scholar (CLS). 

• Linking Biomedical Engineering and Sociology

  October 7, 2019

  

  New approach to an old course brings together the components of cell biology with social reality