University of Wisconsin-Madison
Congratulations to graduate student Benny Witovsky for being selected by the College of Letters & Science (L &S) to be one of this year’s Teaching Fellows! This role involves being part of the Teaching Assistant Training Team to convey crucial information and work on pedagogical skill development with incoming Teaching Assistants. L & S received …
The Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS) announced that Huey-Chi Vicky Chang is retiring from UW–Madison this spring. Vicky started as a Sociology graduate student at UW in 1989. Before her work with the WLS, Vicky collaborated with Aimee Dechter on the project, “Implications of Health-Related Resources and Services for Racial and Socioeconomic Differentials in Mortality.” She …
Congratulations to Eric Grodsky for being selected for an appointment as a Vilas Associate, awarded by the Office of Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education. The Vilas Associates Competition recognizes new and ongoing research of the highest quality and significance on the UW–Madison campus. Eric is Professor of Sociology and Educational Policy Studies and …
Barbara Weston Corry, longtime editor for the Sociology Department and the Center for Demography and Ecology (CDE), passed away on December 28, 2019, at the age of 83. She retired in 1995 after serving as the editor for the CDE’s Working Paper Series for many years. Her memorial service will be held on a future …
Focus is the Institute for Research on Poverty’s online collection of brief essays summarizing current poverty and policy research for non-researchers. Each issue is accompanied by Focus+, a college classroom resource, which includes additional information and web links. John’s essay, “Understanding the effects of the U.S. prison boom on rural communities” is part of the …
We are sorry to share the news that Sandy Ramer passed away on November 12th. Sandy was the Sociology Department’s graduate advisor from 1983 – 2010. She was adored by many faculty members and graduate students. Russ Middleton included a glowing tribute to Sandy’s work in his book on the history of the department (which …
The annual Archibald Haller lecture, “Whose Food, Whose Land? — a conversation on global food sovereignty” is being held on Tuesday November 12 at 7:00 – 8:30pm in the Deluca Room in the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery. Panelists include Department of Community & Environmental Sociology Professor Monica White and Sociology alumna Sarah Lloyd who earned …
On Wednesday October 30 at 12:15pm Eviatar Zerubavel, Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University, will present the Department of Sociology Colloquium in room 8417 in the Sewell Social Sciences Building. His talk is titled: “Generally Speaking: An Invitation to Concept-Driven Sociology.” Professor Zerubavel’s main areas of interest are cognitive sociology and …
Benny Witkovsky, a Sociology graduate student, is the guest speaker at “Forward? The Wisconsin Idea, Past and Present” free lecture series on Tuesday October 22 from 6:00pm – 7:15pm in the Benetic-Biotechnology Center Building, 425 Henry Mall, Room 1111. His talk is titled “The Local Periphery: Small Cities and the Politics of Exclusion.”
A research article written by Professor Michael Light and graduate student Julia Thomas was discussed this fall on an episode of The Weeds podcast. Skip to 47:22 for the paper, “Segregation and Violence Reconsidered: Do Whites Benefit from Residential Segregation?”