Intellectual Biography of Erik Olin Wright
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.
University of Wisconsin-Madison
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.
Nathan received his Ph.D. in April of 2020 and is now a National Institute on Aging T32 Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Demography at the University of California, Berkeley. His dissertation, “The Population Effects of U.S. Deindustrialization,” was written under the supervision of Professor Jenna Nobles. Dr. Lumpkin earned a Ph.D. in Sociology from …
Lavelle was a member of the U.S. Women’s soccer team that won the World Cup championship in the summer of 2019. Lavelle majored in Sociology in 2017. She shared life lessons and her admiration for UW-Madison in her address to winter graduates. Read more…
Hanna is a senior research scientist on Google’s Ethical Artificial Intelligence (AI) team and the Women in AI Ethics project named her to its list of 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics for 2021. The Graduate School at UW-Madison recently interviewed Hanna about her career, how her training in Sociology has contributed to her work …
In collaboration with UW-Madison graduate students Chloe Haimson, Jungmyung Kim, and Benny Witkovsky, Associate Professor John Eason published an article in The Conversation, that was also featured in the Wisconsin State Journal, describing their research that found how racial integration and political polarization contributed to the violent demonstrations in Kenosha, Wisconsin this past summer. The …
Associate Professor Michael Light, and UW-Madison graduate student co-authors Jingying He and Jason Robey, had their research published in an article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that compares crime rates between undocumented immigrants, legal immigrants, and native-born US citizens in Texas. An interview with Light about the research can be found …
Matthew Desmond (Ph.D) will present “The Housing Crisis in Cities,” the virtual keynote for the Mayors Innovation Project, on Tuesday, November 17 at 4 pm ET/3 pm CT. Register here. The Mayors Innovation Project is part of COWS, the Center on Wisconsin Strategy.
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 all! Sarah E. (Frankie) Frank, Body and Embodiment Section’s Honorable Mention for Graduate Paper Award: “Queering Menstruation: Trans and Non-Binary …
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 …
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, …