University of Wisconsin-Madison
Assistant Professor Max Besbris, one of the department’s newest faculty members, just had his book Upsold: Real Estate Agents, Prices, and Neighborhood Inequality published by The University of Chicago Press Books.
On August 21, Greg Wilson, graduate student in the Department of Sociology, and Professor of Community and Environmental Sociology Randy Stoecker, gave a presentation on their research findings on Black-led nonprofits in Madison – organizations whose leadership is majority Black – to the Nehemiah Center for Urban Leadership Development, as part of the Justified Anger …
Last week Jane Piliavin, Conway-Bascom Professor of Sociology, Emerita, was interviewed by Channel 3000 about the Milwaukee Bucks boycott of Game 5 of the playoff series. Piliavin, who has taught sports sociology for many years, stated “It’s often athletes who stand up and protest before other people do.”
The Center on Wisconsin Strategy (COWS) moderated a discussion on Thursday September 3 at 12:00pm (CST) that included front-line workers in healthcare and other essential jobs, as well as those who have lost their jobs as a result of the pandemic. This online event, The Experience of Frontline Wisconsin Workers under COVID-19, was hosted by …
Assistant Professor Max Besbris, one of the department’s newest faculty members, just had his book Upsold: Real Estate Agents, Prices, and Neighborhood Inequality published by The University of Chicago Press Books. Besbris shows how agents successfully upsell, inducing buyers to spend more than their initially stated price ceilings. Using ethnographic and quantitative housing data, the …
Assistant Professor of Sociology and Educational Policy Studies, Jordan Conwell is part of the Stone Center’s Virtual Workshop 2020: “Inequality by the Numbers.” The purpose of this workshop is to feature the latest research and thinking on equality across a wide range of topics, disciplinary perspectives, and geographical terrains. Conwell presents an overview of inequality …
John Eason, Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the UW–Madison Justice Lab, has presented early results from a research project that suggest that efforts to reduce the jail population in the months of January, February and March resulted in decreasing the number of COVID-19 cases in the Dane County Jail. Eason has partnered with …
Kingsley Gobourne, UW Sociology alumnus (2009) and member of the department’s Board of Visitors, is working to improve the culture and climate at UnityPoint Health-Meriter. As the program manager of diversity, equity and inclusion, Gobourne has applied his research and evaluation background with a 19-member committee that has divided into 4 sub-committees focusing on policy, …
A guest column by Professor Emerita Pamela Oliver was published in the July 25 edition of the Wisconsin State Journal that describes how the money bail system unfairly affects decisions on guilt and punishment in our legal system. She discusses two local cases in Madison that demonstrate this disparity. Oliver writes, “A legal system that treats …
Associate Professor John Eason has received a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to research the extent of the reciprocal relationship of infections and deaths from COVID-19 among prisoners, correctional staff and the larger community over time. The project will also examine the spatial aspects of the relationship of infections and deaths from COVID-19. …