Professor Chad Goldberg served as editor for the recently published book “Education for Democracy : Renewing the Wisconsin Idea” that will be discussed as part of the Madison Public Library’s Wisconsin Book Festival on October …
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Frankie Frank is Representative for ASA Section
Frankie Frank was appointed Graduate Student Council Representative for the Teaching and Learning Section of the American Sociological Association. This Section aims to improve the teaching of sociology from the high school through graduate level. …
Graduate Students Receive Fellowships and Grants
Congratulations to the following graduate students on receipt of their fellowships and grants! Nona Gronert is a 2021 National Academy of Education’s Spencer Dissertation Fellow through August of 2022. Walker Kahn received the National Science …
Monica Grant Awarded NIH Research Grant
The National Institutes of Health awarded Monica Grant, Professor of Sociology, a two-year R03 grant to study the reproductive consequences of schooling expansion for men in Ethiopia, Malawi, and Uganda. This project builds on previous …
Leafia Zi Ye Receives ASA Award for Paper
Leafia Zi Ye’s paper “Continuous Integration or Cumulative (Dis)advantage? U.S. Immigrants’ Economic Trajectories in Later Life” received the Graduate Student Paper Award from the American Sociological Association’s Section on Aging & the Life Course. Ye …
John Eason Named Urban Institute Equity Scholar
Associate Professor John Eason has been selected to be one of eight Equity Scholars at the Urban Institute. This two-year program provides opportunity for the scholars to deepen their own policy-oriented research on race, equity, …
Seeking Candidates for Assistant or Associate Professor
The Department of Sociology invites applications for a tenure-track or tenured position at the assistant or associate professor rank beginning August 2022. The successful candidate will have a primary appointment and tenure home in the …
Kristina Fullerton Rico Receives Funded Honorable Mention from SWS
Congratulations to Kristina Fullerton Rico, who received a funded honorable mention for the Esther Ngan-ling Chow and Mareyjoyce Green dissertation scholarship from the Sociologists for Women in Society. The scholarship offers support to women and …
Alumna Casey Stockstill Interviewed on Segregation in Early Childhood Care
Casey Stockstill (Ph.D. 2018) was recently interviewed for the newsletter “Culture Study” by Anne Helen Peterson about her research on race and early childhood care. Stockstill is currently Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University …
Isabel Anadon Awarded ABF/NSF Doctoral Fellow in Law and Inequality
Congratulations to Isabel Anadon who has been awarded an American Bar Foundation (ABF) / National Science Foundation (NSF) Doctoral Fellow in Law and Inequality. She is one of five outstanding scholars from a highly competitive …