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Youbin Kang was awarded honorable mention for the 2023 Best Student Paper award from the Labor and Labor Movements section of the American Sociological Association for her paper “Unionizing Against Solidarity: The Meritocracy of Habitus and the Politics of Skills in the Seoul Metro.” This paper is a part of Kang’s dissertation project examining infrastructural …
Ruo-Fan (Mikki) Liu was awarded two graduate paper awards! Liu’s paper, “Envisioning Opportunities to College Admissions: Social Capital in the Development of Students’ College Plans,” was selected as an award winner for the 2023 Youth, Aging, and Life Course Best Graduate Student Paper. Additionally, her paper, “Well, You Never Know!: Strategic Cultural Coaching and Uncertain …
Sadie Dempsey was selected to be a Mellon Public Humanities Graduate Fellow for the 2023-2024 academic year. The University of Wisconsin Center for the Humanities’ Mellon Public Humanities Graduate Fellow program aims to provide graduate students the opportunity to explore diverse career paths and cultivate a practice of public humanities within their academic work. Dempsey will …
Natasha Warikoo presents, “Race at the Top: Asian Americans and Whites in Pursuit of the American Dream in Suburban Schools.” Wednesday, April 26 12:15 – 2:00 pm 8417 Sewell Social Science Building
Fabien Accominotti was featured on the Russel Sage Foundation Journal Blog for his recent co-authored publication “The Architecture of Status Hierarchies: Variations in Structure and Why They Matter for Inequality.” The interview discusses the publications included in the RSF Journal of Social Science issue “Status: What It Is and Why It Matters.” “The sheer fact …
The Department of Sociology’s Day of the Badger 2023 campaign was a great success! Our department goal was to raise $5,000, and we raised $14,205 thanks to the generosity of our Badger Sociology community. An anonymous donor kindly pledged to donate $100 for every new donor who gave any amount this year. We had a …
Congratulations to Wendy Lee for receiving an Honorable Mention (Sociology) from the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program! “The purpose of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) is to ensure the quality, vitality, and diversity of the scientific and engineering workforce of the United States. GRFP seeks to broaden participation in science and …
17th Willaim H. Sewell Memorial Lecture with Michal Engelman On Wisconsin: Surveying People, Places and their Shifting States Friday, April 21st, 3:30pm, 8417 Sewell Social Science Zoom link to come, In-person reception to follow When William H. Sewell became chair in 1960, he established a guiding principle of “decency, excellence, and diversity” that the department …
Speaker: Daniel Laurison Title: “Suits and Silver Spoons: What Politics Looks Like to Lower-Income People in the US” Date: Monday, April 10, 2023 Time: 12:30 – 2:00 pm Location: 8417 Sewell Social Science Building
Congratulations to Morgan Henson for being awarded the FLAS (Foreign Language and Area Studies) Fellowship for the 2023-2024 Academic Year! FLAS fellowships are funded by the U.S. Department of Education and administered by the UW’s National Resource Centers to assist students in acquiring foreign language and either area or international studies competencies. FLAS awards are …