Graduate student Anna Popovych, who came from Ukraine to study sociology, participated in a small protest of Russian and Ukrainian students and teachers on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus on Thursday February 24, to show …
Month: February 2022
Soc 320 Research Opportunity, Summer/Fall 2022: Navigating Careers in Public Policy
Term: Summer 2022 and Fall 2022 Status: Open Working With: Wendy Li, wyli@wisc.edu Topic: Navigating Careers in Public Policy Who are the people who write our laws and policies in Washington, D.C.? Beyond the elected and …
Sociology Graduate Students receive Teaching Assistant Awards
Three Sociology graduate students have been selected as recipients of the 2021 Campus-Wide Teaching Assistant Awards to recognize their excellence of teaching in lecture halls, classrooms, and labs on campus or leading learning opportunities in …
Emily Burke in Virtual Dialogue with Pope Francis
Emily Burke, a first-year graduate student, was invited to speak with Pope Francis about climate change and its relationship to migration on Thursday February 24. This event, “Building Bridges,” was hosted by Loyola University in …
Robert Manduca Featured Speaker for Colloquium February 21
Robert Manduca, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan, presented a department colloquium “Wealth as Control of the Future” on Monday, February 21. Manduca’s research focuses on the rising income inequality in the …
Kristinn Már receives Dissertation of the Year Award
Congratulations to Kristinn Már (Ph.D. 2021) on his selection for the Katherine DuPre Lumpkin Dissertation of the Year award. Márs’ dissertation, “Democratic Challenges and Innovations,” was written under the supervision of Professor Chaeyoon Lim. Dr. …
Lindsay Cannon receives Scholarship for Women’s Health Research
Congratulations to graduate student Lindsay Cannon for being awarded the Deborah A. Hobbins Graduate Student Award in Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice from the Center for Research on Gender & Woman at the University of …