Year: 2024

Spillover effects of gestational age on sibling’s literacy by David C. Mallinson, Felix Elwert, and Deborah B. Ehrenthal (2024)

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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 …

Sarah “Frankie” Frank joins department as Lecturer

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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 …

Wes Sparkman Receives Alumni of Distinction Award

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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 Receives 2023-24 Emil H. Steiger Teaching Award

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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 …

Soc 320 Research Opportunity, Spring 2024: Transcription Assistant (Spanish) for Interviews on Coffee Production in Galápagos Islands

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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? …

Framing Welfare Expansion: Citizenship, Collective Memory, and Fiscal Dilemmas in Mexico and Peru by Daniela Campos Ugaz (2024)

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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 …

Bert Adams, Professor Emeritus, Has Passed Away

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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 …

Soc 320 Research Opportunity, Spring 2024: Reproductive Justice and Incarceration

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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 …

Wisconsin Idea Course Featured in Article

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The Wisconsin Idea Course, a special undergrad class that doubles as a public lecture series, was featured in a College of Letters & Science news article by Aaron Conklin.   “Curated this year by Mildred Fish Harnack Professor of Philosophy and Carol Dickson Bascom Professor of the Humanities Harry Brighouse, students in the 2023 edition …

Tom Heberlein, Professor Emeritus, Has Passed Away

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We are saddened to share the news that Thomas (Tom) Heberlein passed away on Thursday, January 4th. Tom was a respected scholar of the human dimension of environmental change, and the spouse of Professor Emerita Elizabeth (Betty) Thomson. Tom was a treasured friend to many people in our community. Tom was on the UW–Madison faculty …