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Fabien Accominotti was interviewed about his research by STORM Research Center at Emlyon Business School. He discussed status hierarchies, inequality, meritocratic hierarchies, policy implications, and adaption of AI tools. Fabien also offered advice for grad students, where he emphasized the importance of honing in on a new, unique message that you can introduce to the …
Grad student Sadie Dempsey was awarded a $5,000 grant from the Institute for Humane Studies. This grant will support Sadie’s dissertation research on engaged citizenship in Wisconsin. Her three-year ethnographic study explores how and why young people participate in politics, how they experience the political process, and how democratic participation in youth shapes trajectories into …
Early Child Development and Care Abstract: Adverse health events within families can harm children’s development, including their early literacy. Using data from a longitudinal Wisconsin birth cohort, we estimated the spillover effect of younger siblings’ gestational ages on older siblings’ kindergarten-level literacy. We sampled 20,014 sibling pairs born during 2007-2010 who took Phonological Awareness Literacy …
We are very pleased to announce that Sarah “Frankie” Frank has joined us as a permanent lecturer. Frankie is a PhD graduate of our program, where her extensive teaching experience and other work has earned her a multitude of awards. Frankie’s dissertation focused on menstruation, gender, and law. She will continue running Gender and Law …
Congratulations Wes Sparkman on receiving the Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs 2023 Alumni of Distinction Award! Wes says, “Many thanks to Susan Webb Yackee, Director of the La Follette School at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for recognizing my contribution and public service to Dane County and the State of Wisconsin. There is …
Katherine Jensen is the 2023-24 recipient of the university-wide Emil H. Steiger Teaching Award. She has taught sociology special topics courses about race, class, gender, sexuality, asylum, and refugees. Katherine Jensen is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and International Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. As an ethnographer, her research interests include race/racism, refugees and …
Term: Spring 2024 (Soc 320, Section 094) Status: CLOSED Contact: Please contact Matthew Zinsli at zinsli@wisc.edu. It is available for 2-3 credits. Description: How are food system and agro-environmental governance shaped by understandings of technical expertise and scientific knowledge? How do global and local actors contest notions of authoritative knowledge as they define food standards? …
Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World Abstract: One of the most significant innovations in welfare policies in the past three decades has been the adoption of conditional cash transfers in dozens of countries in the Global South. The policies are puzzling, as they deviate from contributory social policy that privileges formal workers and were …
We are deeply saddened to share that our colleague Bert Adams passed away on January 6. He will be greatly missed. Bert joined the Sociology faculty of University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1965. For nearly 50 years he taught courses on Social Theory and large lecture classes on Marriage and the Family, reaching some 20,000 UW …
Term: Spring 2024 (Soc 320, Section 278) Status: CLOSED Contact: Please contact Molly Clark-Barol at clarkbarol@wisc.edu. It is available for 2-3 credits. Description: The work will be a combination of two projects with the same community partner: FREE, a statewide organization of formerly incarcerated women. The first project is a needs assessment and formative evaluation …