University of Wisconsin-Madison
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 their solidarity with Ukraine and to call for a stop to President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of the former Soviet republic. …
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 appointed officials we might recognize in the news, there are hundreds of thousands of individuals who work to support and …
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 the wider community. Congratulations to Soyun Park, Kurt W. Kuehne, and Kerem Morgül! So Yun Park was awarded the …
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 Chicago and included students from Central, South, and North America. The focus of the dialogue is immigration and matters related …
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 United States. He also examines the role that national policy decisions play in determining the economic viability of cities and …
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. Lumpkin earned a Ph.D. in Sociology from UW–Madison in 1928 and made her career as a professor at Wells College, …
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 Wisconsin–Madison. Cannon plans to use the scholarship funds to begin her dissertation.