University of Wisconsin-Madison
Congratulations to Eric Grodsky for being selected for an appointment as a Vilas Associate, awarded by the Office of Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education. The Vilas Associates Competition recognizes new and ongoing research of the highest quality and significance on the UW-Madison campus. Eric is Professor of Sociology and Educational Policy Studies and …
Focus is the Institute for Research on Poverty’s online collection of brief essays summarizing current poverty and policy research for non-researchers. Each issue is accompanied by Focus+, a college classroom resource, which includes additional information and web links. John’s essay, “Understanding the effects of the U.S. prison boom on rural communities” is part of the …
Associate Professor John Eason was interviewed on the Wisconsin Public Television show “Noon Wednesday” about a recent report from 24/7 Wall St that reports Milwaukee and Racine to be ranked the first and second worst places for African Americans to live in the country.
The annual Archibald Haller lecture, “Whose Food, Whose Land? — a conversation on global food sovereignty” is being held on Tuesday November 12 at 7:00 – 8:30pm in the Deluca Room in the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery. Panelists include Department of Community & Environmental Sociology Professor Monica White and Sociology alumna Sarah Lloyd who earned …
Myra Marx Ferree, Professor Emerita, was recently interviewed about the nation state, gender and intersectional feminism for The Europe Desk podcast, produced by the BMW Center for German and European Studies at Georgetown University. Myra was visiting the BMW Center as part of their lecture series “A Century of Women’s Struggle: From the Franchise to …
COWS, the economy and jobs policy think tank at UW-Madison, just released their annual State of Working Wisconsin report. While low unemployment and modest job growth continues, problems persist. “The richest Wisconsinites increasingly reap the greatest rewards of growth,” stated Joel Rogers, COWS director and professor of sociology. Read more…
Nora Cate Schaeffer, professor of sociology, will join the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education on August 19. She will serve as interim associate vice chancellor for research in the social sciences. She has been the faculty director of the UW Survey Center since 2003. In this new position, Schaeffer will …
Last Friday evening Anna Paretskaya was one of 500 people in Madison protesting the treatment of immigrants and refugees by the U.S. government. Anna is a lecturer in the Sociology Department and studies political movements. She herself came to the United States as an international student from the Soviet Union and is now a U.S. …