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GRU Students Take Home Two of Top Three Outstanding Paper Awards at Southeastern Undergraduate Sociology Symposium (SEUSS) 2013.
Organized by Dr. Bill Reese, The Department of Sociology, Criminal Justice, and Social Work took six students to SEUSS to present papers and compete in a paper contest on February 22-23, 2013 at Morehouse University. SEUSS is sponsored by the Departments of Sociology at Emory University and Morehouse University. Students from Georgia Regents, Morehouse, Emory, Georgia Technical Institute, Georgia State, Fiske, Agnes Scott College, and Tennessee Technological University present papers and discuss their work in this conference that is in its thirty first year.
This year Kirsten Fitzgerald (Sociology) took home a second place prize and $75 for her paper, "Gender, Romance, and Authenticity in the World of Roller Derby" (advisor Dr. Melissa Powell-Williams). Thomas Schumann (Sociology and Political Science) won third place and $50 for his paper, "Assessing Conceptions of Public Trust and Confidence in American Government Institutions," (advisor Dr. Kim Davies). Both papers started as projects in Methods Research courses that the students and faculty followed up with independent research courses.
Dr. Bill Reese organized this trip for the 14th year for students in our department. Dr. Melissa Powell-Williams, Dr. Kim Davies, and Dr. Dustin Avent-Holt were there to cheer the students on. All of the students did wonderfully. They presented well and asked great questions of other presenters. A list of all the students and papers are below:
Schumann, Thomas, Assessing Conceptions of Public Trust and Confidence in American Government Institutions Faculty Advisor: Kim Davies, Georgia Regents University
Fitzgerald, Kirsten, Gender, Romance, and Authenticity in the World of Roller Derby Faculty Advisor: Melissa Powell-Williams, Georgia Regents University
Land, Kelsey,
Happiness Comes from Within: The Study of What Makes Us Happy
Faculty Advisor: Kim Davies, Georgia Regents University
Viquez, Francisco, Children Today: Do people think their children are better off now than when they were kids? Faculty Advisor: Kim Davies, Georgia Regents University
Slaughter, Nicole, From Symbolic Interactionism to the Labeling Theory Faculty Advisor: William Reese, Georgia Regents University
Schumann, Thomas,Comparing Wallerstein's World-System to Marx's Understandings of Class Conflict Faculty Advisor: William Reese, Georgia Regents University
Tyler, Irennah, Craftsmanship and Labor Estrangement: A Comparison of Richard Sennett and Karl Marx Faculty Advisor: William Reese, Georgia Regents University
