Term: Fall 2020 Status: Open Working With: Kelsey Wright, kwright22@wisc.edu Topic: Discourse Used in Federal Contraceptives Hearings This project investigates the discourse used in federal hearings related to federal provision of contraceptives. It pays particular attention …
Undergraduate Research & Internship Opportunities
Soc 320 Research Opportunity, Summer/Fall 2020: The Environmental Sociology of Oil Palm Crops
Term: Summer/Fall 2020 Status: Open Working With: Angela Serrano, serranozapat@wisc.edu Topic: The Environmental Sociology of Oil Palm Crops This project investigates the environmental sociology of oil palm crops. It seeks to understand environmental transformations produced by …
Soc 320 Research Opportunity, Fall 2020: Corporate Diversity & Affirmative Action Policies
Term: Fall 2020 Status: Open Working With: Jungmyung Kim, jungmyung.kim@wisc.edu Topic: Corporate Diversity & Affirmative Action Policies This project seeks to identify the various reasonings and supporting logic for diversity and affirmative action policies revealed in …
Soc 320 Research Opportunity, Fall 2020: Chinese Intellectuals’ Use of Mass Media in the Late-19th and Early-20th Centuries
Term: Fall 2020 Status: Open Contact: Sociology Graduate Student Siying Fu siying.fu@wisc.edu Description: The research project investigates how Chinese intellectuals in the late-19th and early-20th century used mass media to reproduce their class amid profound …
Soc 320 Research Opportunity, Spring 2020: News Coverage of Black Protests and Other Events
Term: Spring 2020, may be continued through Summer 2020 Status: Open Contact: Prof Pamela Oliver (pamela.oliver@wisc.edu) , Sociology Graduate Student Morgan Matthews (mmathews5@wisc.edu) Description: We are hiring undergraduate research assistants for our NSF-funded project “Generating …
Soc 320 Research Opportunity, Spring 2020: Measuring Varieties of Populism in Political Speeches
Term: Spring 2020 Status: Open Contact: Kerem Morgul morgul@wisc.edu Description: This project proposes a novel method for measuring populism in political speeches, a method that maps populist discourse along two dimensions: (i) a vertical dimension …
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Soc 320 Research Opportunity, Spring 2020: Environment & Labor: Waste Remediation Industries
Term: Spring 2020 Status: Open Contact: Alexis Econie econie@wisc.edu See below for syllabus and application form. Description: This is a directed study course focused on research surrounding the social construction of skill and risk in …
1204 900-320-194 Syllabus Econie
Soc 320 Research Opportunity, Spring 2020: Why Do Public Transit Jobs Get Automated?
Term: Spring 2020 (Soc 320, Section 094) Status: Open Contact: Please contact Youbin Kang youbin.kang@wisc.edu or Jungmyung Kim jungmyung.kim@wisc.edu with your resume listing relevant coursework you have taken. The researchers will interview students before deciding …