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.
Publications
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 …
Special Issue of Politics & Society Devoted to Erik Olin Wright
A special issue of Politics & Society has been published in honor of former faculty member, Erik Olin Wright, who served on the editorial board of the journal from 1976 until his death in January …
Report on the 2020 ASA Annual Meeting
UW-Madison Department of Sociology graduate students and faculty members received honors for their research at the American Sociological Association’s annual meeting held in August. Other faculty members participated on panels for the event. Congratulations to …
COWS Releases State of Working Wisconsin 2020 Report
The Center on Wisconsin Strategy (COWS) has launched the 2020 edition of their “State of Working Wisconsin” report that tracks the ongoing economic indicators of the COVID-19 crisis in the state. This year’s research took …
Segregation and Violence Paper Discussed on Podcast
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 …
AWARDS CONTINUE FOR CHAD GOLDBERG’S BOOK
The Midwest Sociological Society’s Book Award Committee selected Professor Chad Goldberg’s book Modernity and the Jews in Western Social Thought as the winner of the 2018-19 Distinguished Book Award. Congratulations Chad!
MICHAEL LIGHT’S ARTICLE MOST POPULAR OF WILEY’S PUBLICATIONS
Associate Professor Michael Light’s article “Does Undocumented Immigration Increase Violent Crime?” published in the journal Criminology was the most popular article viewed of Wiley’s Sociology publications.
CHAD GOLDBERG’S BOOK, MODERNITY AND THE JEWS IN WESTERN SOCIAL THOUGHT, RECEIVES AWARD
The Association for Jewish Studies has selected Professor Chad Goldberg’s book Modernity and the Jews in Western Social Thought, as the finalist for the 2018 Jordan Schnitzer Book Prize in the category of Social Science, …