University of Wisconsin-Madison
Beginning at noon (CST) on Tuesday March 24, the Census 2020 Symposium will be held online. Four invited experts (Steven Ruggles, Diana Magnuson, Michael Hawes and Margo Anderson) will discuss the collection and use of Census data. The symposium is sponsored by the Center for Demography and Ecology, Applied Population Laboratory, La Follette School of …
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 …
Assistant Professor of Sociology and Educational Policy Studies, Jordan Conwell, recently participated in the Fall Colloquium Series at the Population Studies Center of the University of Pennsylvania. Watch his talk, “Race, Gender, Higher Education, and Socioeconomic Attainment: Evidence from Baby Boomers at Mid-Life.”
Associate Professor John Eason was interviewed by “The Conversation” about his research on private prisons and why they are controversial. The United States is one of a few countries that allows private entities to own prisons. They have recently had a role in housing undocumented immigrants and asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border. Private prisons …
This year UniverCity is collaborating with the City of Durand and the village of Stockholm in Pepin County to address their challenge of economic development and environmental sustainability. There are 11 faculty members who will address these issues through university courses and research for the next year. UniverCity receives funding from American Family Insurance, UW–Madison’s …
Congratulations to Madeleine Pape, who is the 2019 winner of the ASA Science Knowledge and Technology section’s Hacker-Mullins Student Paper Award for her paper titled “Expertise, Epistemologies of the Body, and the Institutional Enactment of the Binary.” Congratulations as well to June Jeon, who received a Hacker-Mullins graduate student paper honorale mention from the Science …
The ASA Sociology of Sexualities 2019 Distinguished Book Award Honorable Mention was given to Jason Orne, who is currently an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Drexel University and received his PhD from our program in 2015. His book, Boystown, was based on three years of ethnography in Chicago’s gay neighborhood and examins the importance of …
Graduate student Di Wang was awarded the 2019 ASA Sociology of Sexualities Martin P. Levine Memorial Dissertation Fellowship for her project on legalizing queer families in China. Congratulations Di!