University of Wisconsin-Madison
Alex Mikulas received a Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy Award for his dissertation project, “Trends in Housing Market Racial Integration and the Foreclosure Crisis: A Space-Time Analysis.”
Every year, the Sociology Department’s Evaluation and Improvement of Instruction Committee gives out teaching and mentoring awards to the most impactful instructors and mentors. This year’s winners are: Excellence as a Teaching Assistant – Leonard Kin-Chong Chao Excellence as a Lecturer – Michael Topping Excellence in Teaching as a Faculty Member – Chloe Hart
Katherine Jensen‘s book, The Color of Asylum, is a finalist for the C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP). In The Color of Asylum, Katherine Jensen offers an ethnographic look at the process of asylum seeking in Brazil, uncovering the different ways asylum seekers are treated and the racial logic …
Sadie Dempsey received a Graduate Student Service Scholarship from the UW–Madison Graduate School! This scholarship recognizes and honors the graduate students who volunteer to take on service roles in addition to their research, work, and family obligations. Sociology grad student Ruby Bafu received this award in 2021. As a political sociologist, she studies democracy, social …
The 2024 annual meeting for the Population Association of America (PAA) took place in Columbus, Ohio. Demographers from around the world met to present and discuss their latest research. Three of our sociologists received awards: Julia Thomas received a poster award for her project, “Legacy of the ‘Forgotten Dead’: Lynching of Hispanics and Risk of …
Fabien Accominotti, Léonie Hénaut, and Jennifer C. Lena published “Polyoccupationalism: the unexplored world of workers’ occupational identities” in Work In Progress. This article is a write up of their recent publication, “Polyoccupationalism: Expertise Stretch and Status Stretch in the Postindustrial Era,” which was published in America Sociological Review.
Kerryann DiLoreto (MS 2001), Senior Project Director with the UW Survey Center, has been awarded Distinguished Status by UW–Madison. Distinguished status is awarded to academic staff members with extensive experience, and advanced knowledge and skills. The conferral of Distinguished status is reserved for a small number of academic staff who demonstrate superlative accomplishments evidenced by …
Sara Ronnkvist, Brian Thiede, and Emma Barber received an IPUMS Research Award for best grad student led paper using IPUMS Global Health data. Their paper, “Child fostering in a changing climate: evidence from sub-Saharan Africa,” was originally published in Population and Environment.
Daniela Campos Ugaz received the Social and Economic Rights Associates-Law and Society Association (SERA-LSA) Dissertation Research Grant. Daniela’s research interests lie at the intersection of labor studies, economic sociology, global and transnational sociology, law and society, and cultural sociology. She employs a broad range of research methodologies, including statistical analysis (administrative data and surveys, including …
Walker Kahn was interviewed about his recent article “Safe as Houses: Financialization, Foreclosure, and Precarious Homeownership in the United States” by the American Sociological Review for their podcast. Walker discusses his methodology, his research findings, and the path he took that led to his decision to study foreclosure in the United States. Listen to his …