University of Wisconsin-Madison
Second-year graduate student Julia Thomas has been awarded a 3-year NSF fellowship for her project that examines whether, when, and how contemporary capital punishment operates as “legal lynching” in the United States. Congratulations Julia!
Sociology graduate student Sarah “Frankie” Frank’s paper “Queering Menstruation: Trans and Genderqueer Identity and Body Politics” has been selected as the first place winner in this year’s Alpha Kappa Delta (AKD) Graduate Paper Competition. This award will be presented at the American Sociological Association’s annual meeting in New York City this summer.
In it’s annual issue to feature “artists, innovators and thinkers” who died in the past year, The New York Times Magazine included a tribute to UW-Madison’s Department of Sociology alumnus, Devah Pager. The piece was written by Matthew Desmond, also an alumni of the department and who had previously been a colleague in the Department …
Devah Pager, a professor of sociology and public policy at Harvard University and a UW Sociology alumnus (PhD 2002), died on November 2, 2018. Devah was a highly respected researcher who examined racial discrimination in the labor market and in the criminal justice system. As a graduate student, Devah volunteered with a housing program for …
Curtiss Engstrom and Ningyuan Ma, undergraduate students in the Sociology Department’s Concentration in Analysis and Research (CAR), had valuable internships this past summer which allowed them to apply knowledge and skills gained from CAR courses in research settings. Curtis was a fellow at the highly competitive University of Michigan-University of Maryland-Westat Joint Program in Survey …