University of Wisconsin-Madison
On June 3 the Dane County Criminal Justice Council announced a new research partnership with John Eason, Associate Professor of Sociology, to determine the impact of jail population reduction on the incidence of COVID-19 in the jail, as well as a projection of COVID-19 infection if the reduction had not occurred. Eason’s research focus has been …
“Medical News Today” is hosting a series of articles that explore the racial health disparities exposed by COVID-19. In a recent interview, John Eason discussed the role that incarceration plays in the uneven effect that COVID-19 is having on Black and Latinx communities. John’s research has shown that Black and Latinx people are over-represented as …
Pam Oliver recently provided comment about current and historical protests against police brutality in an interview with Madison’s NBC 15 news. She is working on a research project analyzing how racism and black protests against police violence have been changing since the 1990s in the United States. Oliver said, “Was I shocked about what happened …
Congratulations to Jordan Conwell, Assistant Professor of Sociology, for being selected to receive a Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship! This competitive program supports 30 early career scholars working in critical areas of education research. Jordan’s study, “All in the Family: New Perspectives on the Returns to College Quality,” will apply a multigenerational, family perspective to research in …
Term: Spring 2021 Status: Open Working With: Jungmyung Kim, jungmyung.kim@wisc.edu Topic: Corporate Diversity & Affirmative Action Policies This project seeks to identify the various reasonings and supporting logic for diversity and affirmative action policies revealed in public and investor relations documents of all publicly traded American corporations. Using the documents collected by the graduate project investigator, …
Two of our recent Ph.D. graduates have won the Katherine DuPre Lumpkin Dissertation of the Year award. Jinho Kim, now at Korea University, won the award for the academic year of 2017-18. His dissertation is titled “The Social Dynamics of Adolescent Health and Achievement: The Role of Local Hierarchies in the School Context” and was …