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Research by Christine Schwartz, Professor of Sociology, and her colleagues analyzed trends over the last 50 years in assortative mating, which is the tendency of people to marry those with similar jobs. They found that this tendency has stayed the same over time, while the availability of spouses with similar jobs – including a large …
Professor Chad Goldberg served as editor for the recently published book “Education for Democracy : Renewing the Wisconsin Idea” that will be discussed as part of the Madison Public Library’s Wisconsin Book Festival on October 23 at 10:30am in Madison’s Central Library, Community Room 302. Goldberg will appear live in conversation with Jason Smith, Associate …
Associate Professor John Eason has been selected to be one of eight Equity Scholars at the Urban Institute. This two-year program provides opportunity for the scholars to deepen their own policy-oriented research on race, equity, and structural racism. Working with other researchers at the Urban Institute’s equity-focused policy centers and labs, scholars will develop research …
The Carole Joffe and Stanley Henshaw Early Achievement in Social Science Research Award, given by the National Abortion Federation, honors an individual who has made exceptional contributions to generating abortion-related knowledge. Kelly researches how institutional changes to health care and the medical work force have shaped abortion work, using a framework that examines equity related …
Professor Emeritus Doug Maynard is the recipient of the 2021 Garfinkel-Sacks Award for Distinguished Scholarship in recognition of his distinguished lifetime career contributions to the fields of ethnomethodology and/or conversation analysis. The Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis section of the American Sociological Association confers this award. Maynard retired from the Department of Sociology this past summer.
Congratulations to Monica Grant and Mike Light for their appointments as Vilas Associates! Recipients are chosen competitively by Divisional Research Committees of the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education on the basis of a detailed proposal. The Vilas Associates Competition recognizes new and ongoing research of the highest quality and significance …
In an opinion piece published in the “New York Times” on January 13, 2021, Thomas B. Edsall explores the various motivations of the pro-Trump mob that attacked the Capitol on January 6. Edsall addresses “disgruntlement in many members of Trump’s white working-class base is their inability to obtain a college education, a limitation that blocks …
Franklin D. Wilson taught at the University of Wisconsin from 1973 until 2007, where he was most recently the William H. Sewell-Bascom Emeritus Professor of Sociology. He served as Chair of the Department of Afro-American Studies (1984-87), as Chair of the Department of Sociology (1988-91), and as Director of the Center for Demography and Ecology …
A virtual book launch event will be held January 28, 4:15 – 5:15pm CST, for Education for Democracy: Renewing the Wisconsin Idea, a new book from University of Wisconsin Press, edited by Professor Chad Alan Goldberg. The event will feature a short introduction to the book by Goldberg, brief remarks by the contributors, and an …
Oh is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Asian Languages and Cultures. Her article, Babies, Work, or both? Highly educated women’s employment and fertility in East Asia was selected as one of five finalists from over 2,500 articles published in 2019, from around the world. The Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work and …