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Assistant Professor Max Besbris has been in the media lately after Hurricane Ian. Along with his colleague Anna Rhodes, Besbris conducted interviews with dozens of homeowners in Houston over the two years after Hurricane Harvey. They found that disaster can increase inequality in a community, causing differences in wealth, mobility and vulnerability. They examined factors …
Research on Alzheimer’s disease and dementia is getting a big boost after the National Institute on Aging awarded scientists a large grant to study how education affects the development of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. Led by Chandra Muller at The University of Texas at Austin, the grant brings together an interdisciplinary team of neurologists, …
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 on the connection between incarceration and health.” Co-authored by Professor of Sociology Mike Massoglia, with colleagues Jason Schnittker and Christopher …
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 more.
“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 terms of place, how different place frames shaped students’ college choices and experiences, and how place served as a proxy …
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 a demographer and is also Director of the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study.
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 with a unique degree of competence, kindness, and care over her thirty-year tenure. She was a sharp-minded and dedicated colleague …
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 sexual interest in someone – isn’t a skill that is formally taught in schools or workplaces. Informal sources of information …
We are happy to welcome two more lecturers to our team this fall: Cabell Gathman and Natalia Savelyeva. Cabell will be teaching Soc 160, Human Sexuality. She earned her PhD in Sociology here in 2014, and she has taught courses for UW Sociology, UW Gender & Women’s Studies, and Edgewood College. Her honors and awards …
An opinion piece, titled “Losing Your Neighborhood to Climate Change is Sometimes Necessary” was published in “The New York Times” by Assistant Professor Max Besbris with Anna Rhodes, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Rice University. They are authors of the book “Soaking the Middle Class: Suburban Inequality and Recovery From Disaster” which contains interviews of …