The book Prisons and Health in the Age of Mass Incarceration will be published on September 30 and is described by its publisher, Oxford University Press, as being “the first comprehensive and empirical book focused …
Month: September 2022
UniverCity Year a Finalist for Community Engagement Award
The UniverCity Year program, an associate project of COWS, has been named a regional winner of the 2022 W. K. Kellogg Foundation Community Engagement Scholarship Award from the Association of Public and land-grant Universities. Read …
Taylor Laemmli, Eric Grodsky, and Lyn Macgregor, “Going Places: First-Generation College Students Framing Higher Education”
“This paper draws on interviews with first-generation (FG) college students in their first year attending two distinct public colleges (a rural state university and an urban flagship) to show how these students framed college in …
Michal Engelman Interviewed about Continued Declines in US Life Expectancy
Associate Professor of Sociology Michal Engelman spoke with two local radio stations about the second straight year of continued declines in US life expectancy, Wisconsin Public Radio’s Central Time and WORT’s 8’O’clock Buzz. Engelman is …
In Memoriam: Joann Elder
We are deeply saddened to share with you that Joann Elder, a beloved long-time member of our Sociology Community, has passed away. As our first undergraduate advisor, Joann shepherded thousands of students through our program …
Soc 320 Research Opportunity, Fall 2022: Cultural Scripts About Flirtation in American Media
Term: Fall 2022 (Soc 320, Section 036) Status: Open Contact: Please contact Chloe Hart chloe.hart@wisc.edu to apply for this position. See details below. It is available for 1-3 credits. Description: Flirtation – expressing romantic or …