With the deaths of Barbara and George H. W. Bush being just eight months apart, the “widowhood effect” has been in the news. Professor Felix Elwert was interviewed by the Huffington Post about the loss …
Year: 2018
WPR PROGRAM ON PRISON LABOR WITH JOHN EASON
With prison inmates in California getting paid $1-an-hour for fighting fires, Wisconsin Public Radio explored the history of prison labor in America and the controversy that surrounds it. Associate Professor John Eason was the guest …
UW SOCIOLOGY ALUMNUS DEVAH PAGER REMEMBERED
Devah Pager, a professor of sociology and public policy at Harvard University and a UW Sociology alumnus (PhD 2002), died on November 2, 2018. Devah was a highly respected researcher who examined racial discrimination in …
CHAD GOLDBERG’S BOOK, MODERNITY AND THE JEWS IN WESTERN SOCIAL THOUGHT, RECEIVES AWARD
The Association for Jewish Studies has selected Professor Chad Goldberg’s book Modernity and the Jews in Western Social Thought, as the finalist for the 2018 Jordan Schnitzer Book Prize in the category of Social Science, …
CAR OFFERS EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING FOR UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
Curtiss Engstrom and Ningyuan Ma, undergraduate students in the Sociology Department’s Concentration in Analysis and Research (CAR), had valuable internships this past summer which allowed them to apply knowledge and skills gained from CAR courses …