University of Wisconsin-Madison
UW Sociology is well represented in In Business Madison’s 40 Under 40 Class of 2021. Congratulations, Kingsley Gobourne and Megan Diaz-Ricks! Kingsley Gobourne is a member of our Board of Visitors. His work at UnityPoint Health — Meriter as their first-ever Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Manager has garnered attention. Especially notable are his projects that …
Three Sociology faculty members were selected as recipients of the UW’s Understanding and Reducing Inequalities Initiative, which is designed to support research to build stronger bodies of knowledge on how to reduce inequalities. Jason Fletcher, Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, and Eric Grodsky, Professor of Sociology, are Co-Principal investigators for the project “The Foundational …
Dr. Torsheika Maddox has advanced to become the inaugural Senior Operations Officer and Chief of Staff to the Interim Deputy Vice Chancellor for Diversity & Climate and Chief Diversity Officer in the Division of Diversity, Equity & Educational Achievement (DDEEA). In her new role, Dr. Maddox will apply her skills as a trained Sociologist (demographer), …
Congratulations to Chiara Packard who recently received a Mellon-Wisconsin Summer Fellowship and a Student Research Fellowship from the Institute for Research on Poverty for 2021-2022. These fellowships will support her as she conducts ethnographic fieldwork in two District Attorney’s offices throughout the coming year. Chiara is a PhD candidate with research interests in the sociology …
The Exceptional Service Support Program acknowledges and supports faculty members, especially women and those from historically underrepresented groups, who are sometimes asked to service roles disproportionate to those of other faculty. Such service promotes the university’s interest in having a broad range of perspectives represented on important committees, engaging in governance, and taking on roles to support …
Congratulations to Sociology PhD candidate Ruby Bafu, who was named a 2021 Graduate Student Service Scholarship awardee. The Graduate Student Service Scholarship recognizes and honors the graduate students who volunteer to take on service roles in addition to their research, work, and family obligations. While service can come in many different forms and all service …
The Department of Sociology’s Evaluation and Improvement of Instruction Committee is pleased to announce this year’s teaching and mentoring awards: Lucas Wiscons, award for excellence in teaching by a teaching assistant Miriam Barcus, award for excellence in teaching by a graduate student instructor Michael Light, award for excellence in teaching by a member of the …
Four Sociology/ Community, and Environmental Sociology graduate students have been selected as recipients of the 2020 Campus-Wide Teaching Assistant Awards for excellence in teaching and instructional continuity during the COVID-19 pandemic. Huge congratulations goes out to: Elisa Avila (Community and Environmental Sociology), Early Excellence in Teaching Award Ruby Bafu (Sociology), Exceptional Service Award Jason Nolen …
Congratulations to Annaliese Grant for being one of 24 graduate students awarded a Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (DDRIG) for her research project “A Multi-Method Approach to Family Media Use and Social Class.” Grant will use the funds to help support the statistical analysis of nationally representative survey data, interviews, participant observation, time-use surveys of participants …
Associate Professor Mike Light’s study demonstrating the decline of racial inequality in federal drug-crime sentencing was recently published in “Social Forces” and is highlighted in Charles Lane’s editorial column in “The Washington Post.” Lane writes, “As the trial of ex-Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the death of George Floyd last year gets underway, the nation is …