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  • A “Great Migration”…Back to the South

    GSU Sociology Professor Deidre Oakley was recently interviewed on WABE News regarding African Americans’ 20th-century “great migration” from the South and reverse migration back in...
    Topics
    • African American Studies
    • Books
    • For Faculty
    • For Graduate Students
    • For Students
  • ICPSR Summer Program is Now Open for Registration

    Are you into data?  If you are, ICPSR, the world’s largest social science data archive, annually hosts a summer program in quantitative methods of social...
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    • Criminal Justice
    • Economics
    • Education
    • For Faculty
    • For Graduate Students
  • Urban Studies Brown-Bag Discussion

    Come to the first discussion in the Urban Studies Brown Bag Series starting on Wednesday, February 23rd, Noon – 1:00pm, in Sparks Hall 344. GSU...
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    • For Faculty
    • For Graduate Students
    • For Students
    • Geosciences
    • Sociology
  • History faculty McMillian publishes Smoking Typewriters

    Congratulations to Dr. John McMillian on the publication of his new book, Smoking Typewriters: The Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media in...
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    • Communication
    • Faculty Publications and Research
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    • For Graduate Students
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  • $25,000 for Research on Race and Entrepreneurship

    Adia Harvey Wingfield, assistant professor in the Department of Sociology, received $25,000 in funding from the Kauffman Foundation to study racial differences in motivations for...
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    • African American Studies
    • Faculty Publications and Research
    • For Faculty
    • For Graduate Students
    • Publications and Research
  • Capturing/Critiquing the Social World with a Camera Lens…

    Using your camera to capture and critique the social world?  Submit your work to… SOCIAL SHUTTER Edited by GSU sociology professor Deirdre Oakley, GSU sociology...
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    • Anthropology
    • Art & Design
    • Communication
    • For Faculty
    • For Graduate Students
  • Graphic Novels Tackling the Social/Historical

    Want some visual reading over the break that’s not too heavy but also not too light?  Try one of these graphic novels that explore social...
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    • Communication
    • For Faculty
    • For Graduate Students
    • For Students
    • History
  • “Life as a Feminist in Georgia: A Personal Recollection” Now Available Online

    Published to coincide with the 15th anniversary of the Women’s Collection, Margaret Miller Curtis’ Life as a Feminist in Georgia: A Personal Recollection describes the...
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    • Books
    • Communication
    • Education
    • English
    • For Faculty
  • Call for Applications – 2011 Reed Fink Award in Southern Labor Studies

    One or more  awards of $250-$500 are given annually to individuals whose research in the Southern Labor Archives will lead to a book, article, dissertation,...
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    • Anthropology
    • Business
    • Economics
    • For Faculty
    • For Graduate Students
  • Midterm Elections

    Midterm elections, the elections that occur in the middle of a U.S. Presidential term are not as glamorous as those in a Presidential election year...
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    • Books
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    • History