On February 18 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics released estimates that decreased life expectancy for Americans, and the drop was larger, depending on race and ethnicity. Michal Engelman, …
Month: February 2021
Nona Gronert Receives Hyde Dissertation Award
Ph.D. candidate Nona Gronert received the Hyde Dissertation Research Award for Graduate Students for her project, “The Promise and Peril of Title IX Addressing Sexual Violence: A University Case Study, 1972-2017.” Gronert’s research focuses on …
Intellectual Biography of Erik Olin Wright
Sociology Ph.D. student Masoud Movahed wrote an intellectual biography of his former advisor, the late Erik Olin Wright published in The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Read it here.
In Memoriam: Professor Robert Mare
Robert (Rob) D. Mare passed away on Monday February 1, 2021. Mare began his career in the Department of Sociology at UW–Madison as an Assistant Professor in 1977 and he served as Director of the …