Term: Spring 2021 Status: Open Working With: Kelsey Wright, kwright22@wisc.edu Topic: “Safer-at-Home”: How Shifting Daily Realities Affect Life Course Decisions, Aspirations, and Practices This project investigates how the daily lives of people have been affected due …
Month: September 2020
Soc 320 Research Opportunity, Spring 2021: The Impact of COVID-19 on Service and Arts Workers
Term: Spring 2021 (Soc 320, Section 081) Status: Open Contact: Taylor Laemmli laemmli@wisc.edu. This position is available for 1-3 credits. Description: This project draws on semi-structured interviews with service industry and arts workers conducted during …
Report on the 2020 ASA Annual Meeting
UW-Madison Department of Sociology graduate students and faculty members received honors for their research at the American Sociological Association’s annual meeting held in August. Other faculty members participated on panels for the event. Congratulations to …
Soc 320 Research Opportunity, Fall 2020: Compiling Case Histories from Jail and Court Records
Term: Fall 2020 (Soc 320, Section 135) Status: Closed Contact: Please contact Prof Pamela Oliver pamela.oliver@wisc.edu if interested. It is available for 1-3 credits. Description: This project is in collaboration with Dane County community activists …
John Eason Interviewed on COVID-19 in Wisconsin Prisons
Wisconsin Public Radio presented a news story on the rate of COVID-19 cases in Wisconsin prisons on Thursday, September 3. John Eason, Associate Professor of Sociology and director of the University of Wisconsin Justice Lab, …
Bloomberg News Features Max Bresbis’ New Book
Assistant Professor Max Besbris, one of the department’s newest faculty members, just had his book Upsold: Real Estate Agents, Prices, and Neighborhood Inequality published by The University of Chicago Press Books.