University of Wisconsin-Madison
Oh is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Asian Languages and Cultures. Her article, Babies, Work, or both? Highly educated women’s employment and fertility in East Asia was selected as one of five finalists from over 2,500 articles published in 2019, from around the world. The Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work and …
Hanna is a senior research scientist on Google’s Ethical Artificial Intelligence (AI) team and the Women in AI Ethics project named her to its list of 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics for 2021. The Graduate School at UW-Madison recently interviewed Hanna about her career, how her training in Sociology has contributed to her work …
Eason, who wrote this article with 3 colleagues who also research criminal justice, points out how some of the counties in the U.S. that are most affected by COVID-19 are those where correctional facilities are located. Upon review of state plans for vaccination administration, however, only a few states have identified prisoners as a population …
Term: Spring 2021 (Soc 320, Section 235) Status: Open Contact: Please contact Chiara Packard cpackard@wisc.edu with your resume and cover letter (see details below) to apply for this position. It is available for 1-3 credits. Description: The prosecutor is one of the most powerful actors in the US criminal justice system. Robert Jackson once said, …
In collaboration with UW-Madison graduate students Chloe Haimson, Jungmyung Kim, and Benny Witkovsky, Associate Professor John Eason published an article in The Conversation, that was also featured in the Wisconsin State Journal, describing their research that found how racial integration and political polarization contributed to the violent demonstrations in Kenosha, Wisconsin this past summer. The …
Associate Professor Michael Light, and UW-Madison graduate student co-authors Jingying He and Jason Robey, had their research published in an article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that compares crime rates between undocumented immigrants, legal immigrants, and native-born US citizens in Texas. An interview with Light about the research can be found …
Term: Spring 2021 Status: Open Working With: Wendy Li, wyli@wisc.edu Topic: Lobbying and the Revolving Door in Policymaking Processes This project studies the career patterns of lobbyists and policymakers, to understand how policy careers and policy networks take shape. I am generating a dataset of policy professionals who work in trade policy, in order to conduct …
Felix Elwert, Professor of Sociology, will become the next Editor-in-Chief of Sociological Methods and Research (SMR). SMR is the top-ranked methodology journal in the social sciences by impact factor (4.51 in 2019), putting it ahead of journals such as Econometrica and Psychometrika. SMR is also among the top 5 sociology journals worldwide, ranking ahead of the American Journal of Sociology. Elwert …
Associate Professor Michal Engelman will be the new director of the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, a long-term study of 10,317 men and women who graduated from Wisconsin high schools in 1957. Engelman plans to enhance the study’s vitality as a scientific resource for learning about well-being at older ages and across diverse contexts. Engelman is also …
Term: Spring 2021 Status: Open Working With: Kelsey Wright, kwright22@wisc.edu Topic: Discourse Used in Federal Contraceptives Hearings This project investigates the discourse used in federal hearings related to federal provision of contraceptives. It pays particular attention to the use of classed and racial discourses about the provision of contraceptives/federal contraceptive programs in the U.S. since the …