17th Willaim H. Sewell Memorial Lecture with Michal Engelman
On Wisconsin: Surveying People, Places and their Shifting States
Friday, April 21st, 3:30pm, 8417 Sewell Social Science
Zoom link to come, In-person reception to follow
When William H. Sewell became chair in 1960, he established a guiding principle of “decency, excellence, and diversity” that the department still aims toward today. After he passed away in June 2001, we established an annual lecture to honor his memory.
Michal Engelman’s research combines perspectives from the social sciences and public health to examine the social determinants of health and longevity. She is particularly interested in how social stratification (by socioeconomic status, race/ethnicity, nativity, and
geography) manifests in health and mortality inequities. Engelman is the Principal Investigator of the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study and the Director of the doctoral and postdoctoral training program in Population, Life Course, and Aging. Her current research projects include several NIH-supported studies exploring the impact of neighborhood disadvantage on accelerated epigenetic aging and linkages between early and midlife exposures and cognitive health in later life.