The Unequal Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Infant Health by Florencia Torche & Jenna Nobles published in Demography in December 2022 was featured in a PNAS article by Amy McDermott “COVID-19 increases pregnancy risks. …
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Aleeya Sengdao Awarded Global Gateway Fellowship
Aleeya Sengdao is an undergraduate student with a double major in Human Development and Family Studies & Sociology with certificates in Criminal Justice, Education And Educational Services, Arts and Teaching, Social Justice and Education. Aleeya …
Doug Maynard Publishes Co-Edited Ethnometholody (2022)
Maureen T. Hallinan Professor of Sociology Emeritus Doug Maynard published a co-edited volume “The Ethnomethodology Program: Legacies and Prospects” (Oxford University Press) with John Heritage, Professor Emeritus at UCLA. This book offers an updated overview …
Morgan Henson Awarded Bucky Award & Honored Instructor Award
Sociology Ph.D. Candidate Morgan Henson received the Bucky Award in April 2022 for Graduate Student Commitment to Engagement and Activism for his work on discussing, understanding, and deconstructing whiteness in different contexts around Madison, Wisconsin. …
Jessica Calarco’s New Book Qualitative Literacy Subject of Responses in Sociological Methods & Research
The Department of Sociology looks forward to welcoming Jessica Calarco to our faculty in Spring 2023! Jessica and Mario Small (Columbia) recently published a book Qualitative Literacy that is the subject of several responses in …
A New Look for the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study
The Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS), a long-term study of a random sample of 10,317 people who graduated from Wisconsin high schools in 1957, has launched a new website. Data collected for the study covers social …
Max Besbris Interviewed on Hurricane Ian & its Impact on Inequality, Racial Disparities
Assistant Professor Max Besbris has been in the media lately after Hurricane Ian. Along with his colleague Anna Rhodes, Besbris conducted interviews with dozens of homeowners in Houston over the two years after Hurricane Harvey. …
Eric Grodsky Awarded NIA Subaward for Research on Role of Education and Risk for Alzheimer’s Disease
Research on Alzheimer’s disease and dementia is getting a big boost after the National Institute on Aging awarded scientists a large grant to study how education affects the development of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. …
Mike Massoglia Co-authors Book on Prisons and Health
The book Prisons and Health in the Age of Mass Incarceration will be published on September 30 and is described by its publisher, Oxford University Press, as being “the first comprehensive and empirical book focused …
UniverCity Year a Finalist for Community Engagement Award
The UniverCity Year program, an associate project of COWS, has been named a regional winner of the 2022 W. K. Kellogg Foundation Community Engagement Scholarship Award from the Association of Public and land-grant Universities. Read …