University of Wisconsin–Madison

Month: September 2020

Soc 320 Research Opportunity, Spring 2021: “Safer-at-Home”: How Shifting Daily Realities Affect Life Course Decisions, Aspirations, and Practices

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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 to “Safer-at-Home” orders, and whether those changes have affected (or not) respondents’ ideas and practices around romantic relationships and childbearing. …

Soc 320 Research Opportunity, Spring 2021: The Impact of COVID-19 on Service and Arts Workers

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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 and in the aftermath of the arrival of the COVID-19 virus in the United States. I talked to workers about …

Report on the 2020 ASA Annual Meeting

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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 all! Sarah E. (Frankie) Frank, Body and Embodiment Section’s Honorable Mention for Graduate Paper Award:  “Queering Menstruation: Trans and Non-Binary …

Soc 320 Research Opportunity, Fall 2020: Compiling Case Histories from Jail and Court Records

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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 who are concerned about who is in the jail and people’s criminal histories that send them in and out of …

John Eason Interviewed on COVID-19 in Wisconsin Prisons

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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, commented on the disproportionate rate of incarceration of African Americans in state prisons, and how increased COVID-19 testing will show …

Bloomberg News Features Max Bresbis’ New Book

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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.