Recent HSOC News

Current News and Events

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• Professor Todd Michney on Redlining and Residential Segregation

  July 6, 2020

  
  Historian's research focuses on race and residential segregation.

• 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."

• 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."

• 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.

• 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."

• 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.

• 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.

• Linking Biomedical Engineering and Sociology

  October 7, 2019

  

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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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."

• John Krige Wins Nonproliferation Challenge Award

  May 20, 2019

  
  Congratulations to Kranzberg Professor John Krige from the School of History and Sociology.

• 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.

• John Krige Publishes Op-Ed in Fortune

  February 12, 2019

  
  In this op-ed, John Krige discusses the competition between China and the US for high-tech supremacy.

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