Society News from the Chronicles


Focus on Faculty: William Finlay

Sociology professor and department head William Finlay is currently featured in the Focus on Faculty on the UGA homepage: A few highlights/insights on Finlay's perspective on teaching: What interests you about your field? I enjoy its diversity and the sheer range of human behaviors and institutions…

Kudos, October 2012

Faculty Kudos  “Visiting Hours at the Color Line,” a collection of poetry by English and Creative Writing Professor Ed Pavlic, was a selection of the National Poetry Series for 2013 and will be published by Milkweed Editions. Belinda Stillion Southard, assistant professor of communication…

Faculty in the News, October 2012

  Brian Binder, Associate Professor and Marine Sciences Department Head, was quoted in a Red and Black article highlighting opportunities for undergraduates in marine science James C. Cobb, Spalding Distinguished Research Professor of History, was featured in an Atlanta Journal Constitution…
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Physicist and adventurer Francis Slakey

The department of physics and astronomy will host a lecture this week with Georgetown University's Francis Slakey: Slakey will describe the decade-long journey that led him to become the first person to summit the highest mountain on every continent and surf every ocean during a University of…

Cobb in New York Times

Spaulding Distinguished Research Professor of History James Cobb takes to the pages of the New York Times to describe Republican support in the South: Lest we go overboard in emphasizing the peculiarities of working-class white Southerners, we should remember that racially tinged, working-class…