University of Wisconsin-Madison
Congratulations to graduate student Taylor Laemmli for having her paper, “Workers and Their Foes: Low-Autonomy Precarious Work in the Service Triad,” selected for the Harry Braverman Award by the Labor Studies Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems.
What can you do with a Sociology major? On Tuesday April 5 from 5:30pm – 7:30pm in Varsity Hall at Union South, meet Sociology alumni who will share their career paths and discuss the different fields they work in. This event is intended for undergraduate students and is sponsored by Success Works. Learn more and …
Three Sociology graduate students have been selected as recipients of the 2021 Campus-Wide Teaching Assistant Awards to recognize their excellence of teaching in lecture halls, classrooms, and labs on campus or leading learning opportunities in the wider community. Congratulations to Soyun Park, Kurt W. Kuehne, and Kerem Morgül! So Yun Park was awarded the …
We’re excited to announce Alex and Demiana Hanna Pride Scholarship, a new fund started by alumna Alex Hanna (Ph.D. 2016) to support undergraduate students majoring in Sociology who are actively committed to and engaged in activities which advocate for and support the LGBTQ community. Demiana Hanna was one of 11 children growing up in rural …
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. It encourages and facilitates innovative and effective methods of teaching and research of teaching practices.
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 began her graduate studies in the Department of Sociology in 2016 and her research uses quantitative methods to study immigrants …
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 of Denver, where she is finishing her book, Unequal Beginnings: Daily Life in Two Segregated American Preschools. The questions that …
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 …
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 …
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 …