Recent HSOC News
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Study Sheds Light on Disparities in Autism Services in Georgia
July 23, 2020
Jennifer Singh, associate professor in the School of History and Sociology, interviewed 21 minority women caring for children with autism to learn about disparities in autism services.
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Professor Todd Michney on Redlining and Residential Segregation
July 6, 2020
Historian's research focuses on race and residential segregation.
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Jennifer Singh Receives DILAC Award
May 12, 2020
Jennifer Singh received a 2020 DILAC award for her project, "Visualizing Digital Autism Disparities in Metro Atlanta, Georgia."
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Allen Hyde Publishes Article on Coronavirus Response
April 28, 2020
Allen Hyde, and his coauthor Angran Li of Zhejiang University, China, recently published a short article in a COVID-19 special online issue of Contexts Magazine, the official public journal of sociology, called "A Slow Start on an Urgent Crisis."
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Ronald Bayor Receives Lifetime Achievement Award
April 13, 2020
Ronald Bayor, Emeritus Professor of History, received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Immigration and Ethnic History Society.
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Jennifer Singh Writes Column for the Saporta Report
March 3, 2020
Jennifer Singh, Associate Professor of Sociology, wrote a guest column for the Saporta Report entitled, "Addressing Atlanta's health disparities through community service approaches."
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Ivan Allen College Archive Project Receives Nearly $100,000 from NEH
January 15, 2020
The Ivan Allen Archive Project at the Georgia Institute of Technology has received a two-year, $99,991 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to fund the integration of large-scale text processing and data visualization capabilities into the open-source Omeka platform.
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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
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Allen Hyde Publishes Two New Articles
November 18, 2019
Assistant professor Allen Hyde recently published two articles: "Degrees of Inequality" and "Left Behind?"
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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.
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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.
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Linking Biomedical Engineering and Sociology
October 7, 2019
New approach to an old course brings together the components of cell biology with social reality
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John Krige Offered Francis Bacon Award in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology
August 21, 2019
John Krige, Kranzberg professor in the Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of History and Sociology (HSOC), was recently awarded Caltech's prestigious Francis Bacon Award in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology.
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School of History and Sociology Hiring Assistant Professor of Sociology
July 22, 2019
The School of History and Sociology at Georgia Tech invites applications for tenure-track faculty position in sociology at the rank of assistant professor. We seek a candidate specializing in inequality and social justice.
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Renee Shelby Wins 2019 Body & Embodiment Graduate Student Paper Award
June 7, 2019
Renee's paper, "Techno-Physical Feminism: Surveillance, Anti-Rape Technology & Shifting Risk Paradigms," has won the 2019 Body & Embodiment Graduate Student Paper Award.
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Jennifer Singh to Give Keynote at Autism Genetics Research Conference
June 7, 2019
Singh is the keynote speaker at the "Autism, Genetics & Identity: Exploring the Complexities of Autism Genetics Research" Conference at Columbia University.
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John Krige Named Regents Professor
June 3, 2019
John Krige, Kranzberg professor in the Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of History and Sociology (HSOC), has been appointed a Regents’ Professor upon recommendation by the Provost and approval by the USG Board of Regents.
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Johnny Smith Wins Best Article Award
June 3, 2019
Johnny Smith won the 2018 Best Article Award for his article, "The Magnitude of Me: Reggie Jackson, Baseball, and the Seventies."
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John Krige Wins Nonproliferation Challenge Award
May 20, 2019
Congratulations to Kranzberg Professor John Krige from the School of History and Sociology.
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Kristie Macrakis Interviewed for Smithsonian Documentary on KGB
March 25, 2019
Georgia Institute of Technology School of History and Sociology Professor Kristie Macrakis was interviewed for the Smithsonian Channel documentary on KGB technological espionage.