University of Wisconsin-Madison
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 of the show and provided his view as a sociologist.
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 the labor market and in the criminal justice system. As a graduate student, Devah volunteered with a housing program for …
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, Anthropology, and Folklore. Congratulations Chad!
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 in research settings. Curtis was a fellow at the highly competitive University of Michigan-University of Maryland-Westat Joint Program in Survey …