Year: 2021

Seeking Candidates for Assistant or Associate Professor

The Department of Sociology invites applications for a tenure-track or tenured position at the assistant or associate professor rank beginning August 2022. The successful candidate will have a primary appointment and tenure home in the Department of Sociology. Applicants must hold a PhD prior to the start of the appointment. Research specialization is open; however, we …

Kristina Fullerton Rico Receives Funded Honorable Mention from SWS

Congratulations to Kristina Fullerton Rico, who received a funded honorable mention for the Esther Ngan-ling Chow and Mareyjoyce Green dissertation scholarship from the Sociologists for Women in Society. The scholarship offers support to women and non-binary scholars of color who are from underrepresented groups and are studying concerns that women of color face domestically and/or …

Alumna Casey Stockstill Interviewed on Segregation in Early Childhood Care

Casey Stockstill (Ph.D. 2018) was recently interviewed for the newsletter “Culture Study” by Anne Helen Peterson about her research on race and early childhood care.  Stockstill is currently Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Denver, where she is finishing her book, Unequal Beginnings:  Daily Life in Two Segregated American Preschools.  The questions that …

Alumna Lisa Wade to give Keynote Address

Lisa Wade (Ph.D. 2006) will give the Keynote Address “Teaching Sociology after 2020: Sociology in an Unsettled Time” as part of Alpha Kappa Delta Sociology Honor Society’s “Planning to Teach Post-Pandemic.” The event is June 16, 2021 at 1:00 pm Eastern Time and is free, but attendees must register here. Lisa Wade is an Associate …

Isabel Anadon Awarded ABF/NSF Doctoral Fellow in Law and Inequality

Congratulations to Isabel Anadon who has been awarded an American Bar Foundation (ABF) / National Science Foundation (NSF) Doctoral Fellow in Law and Inequality. She is one of five outstanding scholars from a highly competitive application pool to receive a 2021-22 Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Fellowship. Isabel will study the intersection of punishment and migration with …

Undergraduate Scholarship Winners Announced

The Department of Sociology is pleased to announce the winners of this year’s undergraduate scholarships. Congratulations go out to: Yuxin Liu, Alicia Lorta, Madison Johnson, and Yumeng Wang for receiving the Alfred Reschke Social Science Scholarship; and Yahvi Mahendra for winning the Andrea Michelle Sperka Sociology Fund. The Alfred Reschke Social Science Scholarship is an undergraduate scholarship …

Marcy Carlson Receives Kellett Mid-Career Award

Congratulations to Marcy Carlson for receiving a Kellett Mid-Career Award, which recognizes and supports research conducted by faculty members who are seven to twenty years past their first promotion to tenure. Named for the late William R. Kellett, a former president of the WARF board of trustees and president of Kimberly-Clark Corporation, the award was …

Michal Engelman Awarded Romnes Faculty Fellowship

Congratulations to Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study Michal Engelman who received a Romnes Faculty Fellowship for academic year 2021-22. The Romnes fellowship is named in honor of Haakon Ingolf (H.I.) Romnes, late Trustee and President of the WARF Board. A lifelong friend of the university, his entire career was …

Franklin Wilson Memorial To Be Held September 25, 2021

We were deeply saddened by the passing of Franklin Wilson, an exceptional scholar, teacher, mentor, and friend. Obituaries for Franklin can be read here and in ASA Footnotes  here. We invite you to save the date to join in a memorial celebration of the life of Franklin Wilson: Saturday, September 25 at 1:00 – 3:00 pm CT University of Wisconsin–Madison Wisconsin …

Alumnus Kalvin Barrett is New Dane County Sheriff

Governor Tony Evers appointed Kalvin Barrett as the next Dane County Sheriff. Kalvin graduated with a BA from UW Sociology in 2004; he also played football for the Badgers during his time as a student. He has since served as Dane County deputy sheriff and as an officer with the Sun Prairie Police Department, where …