University of Wisconsin-Madison
Grad student Sadie Dempsey was awarded a $5,000 grant from the Institute for Humane Studies. This grant will support Sadie’s dissertation research on engaged citizenship in Wisconsin. Her three-year ethnographic study explores how and why young people participate in politics, how they experience the political process, and how democratic participation in youth shapes trajectories into …
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 …
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 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Allison Daminger’s article, “A Cognitive Labor of Love,” published in Behavioral Scientist‘s “Brain Meets World,” won the Best Article Award in the Family & Parenting category of the 2023 Folio Eddie & Ozzie Awards. From Behavioral Scientist: “A Cognitive Labor of Love,” by Allison Daminger, won for best article in the Family & Parenting …
Six sociology instructors have been named Honored Instructors for Fall 2023 by University Housing. Congratulations to Allison Daminger, Cabell Gathman, Danielle Schmidt, Michael Massoglia, Nicholas Pedriana, and Patrick Nolan, and thank you all for your dedication to our students!
Yue Qin attended the Institute on Aging’s Annual Colloquium, and she received a New Investigator Award for her poster, “Labor union membership and the educational gradient in later-life health: Results from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study.” You can read more about her research here. Congratulations, Yue!