Robert (Rob) D. Mare passed away on Monday February 1, 2021. Mare began his career in the Department of Sociology at UW–Madison as an Assistant Professor in 1977 and he served as Director of the …
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Monica Grant and Michael Light Appointed as Vilas Associates
Congratulations to Monica Grant and Mike Light for their appointments as Vilas Associates! Recipients are chosen competitively by Divisional Research Committees of the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education on the …
Nathan Seltzer Receives Katherine DuPre Lumpkin Dissertation of the Year Award
Nathan received his Ph.D. in April of 2020 and is now a National Institute on Aging T32 Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Demography at the University of California, Berkeley. His dissertation, “The Population Effects …
Christine Schwartz’s Research Referenced in “New York Times”
In an opinion piece published in the “New York Times” on January 13, 2021, Thomas B. Edsall explores the various motivations of the pro-Trump mob that attacked the Capitol on January 6. Edsall addresses “disgruntlement …
In Memoriam: Professor Emeritus Franklin Wilson
Franklin D. Wilson taught at the University of Wisconsin from 1973 until 2007, where he was most recently the William H. Sewell-Bascom Emeritus Professor of Sociology. He served as Chair of the Department of Afro-American …
Virtual Book Launch for Book on Wisconsin Idea
A virtual book launch event will be held January 28, 4:15 – 5:15pm CST, for Education for Democracy: Renewing the Wisconsin Idea, a new book from University of Wisconsin Press, edited by Professor Chad Alan …
Winter 2020 Commencement Speaker: Sociology Alumna Rose Lavelle
Lavelle was a member of the U.S. Women’s soccer team that won the World Cup championship in the summer of 2019. Lavelle majored in Sociology in 2017. She shared life lessons and her admiration for …
Eunsil Oh’s Article Selected as Finalist for the 2020 Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work and Family
Oh is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Asian Languages and Cultures. Her article, Babies, Work, or both? Highly educated women’s employment and fertility in East Asia was selected as one of five finalists from …
Alex Hanna (Ph.D. ’16) Named One of 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics for 2021
Hanna is a senior research scientist on Google’s Ethical Artificial Intelligence (AI) team and the Women in AI Ethics project named her to its list of 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics for 2021. The …
Opinion piece in Newsweek: John Eason States Need to Vaccinate the Prison Population
Eason, who wrote this article with 3 colleagues who also research criminal justice, points out how some of the counties in the U.S. that are most affected by COVID-19 are those where correctional facilities are …