University of Wisconsin-Madison
Four Sociology/ Community, and Environmental Sociology graduate students have been selected as recipients of the 2020 Campus-Wide Teaching Assistant Awards for excellence in teaching and instructional continuity during the COVID-19 pandemic. Huge congratulations goes out to: Elisa Avila (Community and Environmental Sociology), Early Excellence in Teaching Award Ruby Bafu (Sociology), Exceptional Service Award Jason Nolen …
Congratulations to Annaliese Grant for being one of 24 graduate students awarded a Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (DDRIG) for her research project “A Multi-Method Approach to Family Media Use and Social Class.” Grant will use the funds to help support the statistical analysis of nationally representative survey data, interviews, participant observation, time-use surveys of participants …
Associate Professor Mike Light’s study demonstrating the decline of racial inequality in federal drug-crime sentencing was recently published in “Social Forces” and is highlighted in Charles Lane’s editorial column in “The Washington Post.” Lane writes, “As the trial of ex-Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the death of George Floyd last year gets underway, the nation is …
The Carole Joffe and Stanley Henshaw Early Achievement in Social Science Research Award, given by the National Abortion Federation, honors an individual who has made exceptional contributions to generating abortion-related knowledge. Kelly researches how institutional changes to health care and the medical work force have shaped abortion work, using a framework that examines equity related …
Professor Emeritus Doug Maynard is the recipient of the 2021 Garfinkel-Sacks Award for Distinguished Scholarship in recognition of his distinguished lifetime career contributions to the fields of ethnomethodology and/or conversation analysis. The Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis section of the American Sociological Association confers this award. Maynard retired from the Department of Sociology this past summer.
In an op-ed article titled “A Fix for More Affordable Housing” in the March 4 edition of the “New York Times” Baiocchi and Carlson propose a plan to promote affordable housing during the difficult economic period in the United States caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. After a review of what happened to housing after the 2018 …
On February 18 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics released estimates that decreased life expectancy for Americans, and the drop was larger, depending on race and ethnicity. Michal Engelman, Associate Professor of Sociology, was interviewed for a news story on Wisconsin Public Radio and stated this data from the …
Ph.D. candidate Nona Gronert received the Hyde Dissertation Research Award for Graduate Students for her project, “The Promise and Peril of Title IX Addressing Sexual Violence: A University Case Study, 1972-2017.” Gronert’s research focuses on sexual violence and sexual consent in higher education. This competitive award is administered by the Center for Research on Gender …
Sociology Ph.D. student Masoud Movahed wrote an intellectual biography of his former advisor, the late Erik Olin Wright published in The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Read it here.
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 Center for Demography and Ecology (CDE) from 1989 to 1994. He moved to the University of California, Los Angeles in …