University of Wisconsin-Madison
Savion Castro earned a bachelor’s degree in Sociology at UW-Madison in 2018, choosing this major for its combination of political science and theory, history, statistics, and methodology. He now works as a legislative aide for state Rep. Shelia Stubbs, D-Madison. He was sworn on July 29 for a nine-month term on the Madison Metropolitan School …
Last Friday evening Anna Paretskaya was one of 500 people in Madison protesting the treatment of immigrants and refugees by the U.S. government. Anna is a lecturer in the Sociology Department and studies political movements. She herself came to the United States as an international student from the Soviet Union and is now a U.S. …
Knowing that menstruation products are frequently sidelined as necessities during humanitarian crises, graduate student Sarah “Frankie” Frank raised money, put together menstruation kits, and drove to Texas to deliver them to immigrants in need. She has founded the Menstruation Collective to continue this work and to include the volunteer efforts of others.
Sociology alumna, Deb Cohan (B.A., 1992), has authored a forthcoming book titled Welcome to Wherever We Are: A Memoir of Family, Caregiving, and Redemption. It is published by Rutgers University Press and scheduled to be released on February 14, 2020. The book is being marketed for a general audience. Deb is currently an Associate Professor …
UniverCity Year, a community partnership program that is part of the Center on Wisconsin Strategy (COWS), was recently honored by UW-Madison for its exemplary efforts to collaborate with the Green County Development Corporation to address community challenges and projects. Professor Joel Rogers is the Director of COWS and a member of the UniverCity Year Advisory …
Fans in the Rathskeller celebrated the U.S. Women’s soccer team’s World Cup championship this week and were proud of UW-Madison alumna Rose Lavelle, one of the team’s star players. The number of Sociology majors on the team has garnered attention: Rose majored in Sociology at UW-Madison and 3 of her teammates were Sociology majors at …
Associate Professor Monica Grant is one of nine recipients of Seed Grants from the UW-Madison Global Health Institute. She is examining the connection between climate change and family planning in Malawi by interviewing men and women four months after flooding associated with Cyclone Idai displaced thousands of people. Grant is asking “How do families make …
The ASA Sociology of Education section selected the paper “Suspended Attitudes: Exclusion and Emotional Disengagement from School” by Jaymes Pyne for Honorable Mention for the David Lee Stevenson Best Graduate Student Paper. Pyne worked as a Research Assistant from 2016 – Spring 2019 at the Madison Education Partnership.
Congratulations to Madeleine Pape, who is the 2019 winner of the ASA Science Knowledge and Technology section’s Hacker-Mullins Student Paper Award for her paper titled “Expertise, Epistemologies of the Body, and the Institutional Enactment of the Binary.” Congratulations as well to June Jeon, who received a Hacker-Mullins graduate student paper honorale mention from the Science …
The ASA Sociology of Sexualities 2019 Distinguished Book Award Honorable Mention was given to Jason Orne, who is currently an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Drexel University and received his PhD from our program in 2015. His book, Boystown, was based on three years of ethnography in Chicago’s gay neighborhood and examins the importance of …