Category: Undergraduate Research & Internship Opportunities

Term: Fall 2023 Status: Open Working With: Siying Fu siying.fu@wisc.edu Topic: Computational Textual Analysis on the Sociological Research of Nationalism In this project, we explore the key themes in the classic and recently influential sociological studies of nationalism with computational textual analytical techniques, especially LDA topic modelling. The undergraduate researchers will be responsible for data collection, processing …

Term: Fall 2023 Status: Open Working With: Alexis Dennis adennis2@wisc.edu Meets: via Zoom, day and time TBD. Topic: First-Generation and Working-Class Graduate Students’ Stories of Pursuing Higher Education: A Life Histories Interview Study Using life histories interviews of 47 current and former graduate and professional first-generation students who identify as having come from working-class or economically poor …

Term: Fall 2023 Status: Open Working With: Prof. Joel Rogers  Meets: 9:55-11:55 M, 3425 Sterling Topic: Community-Engaged Research for Solving Urban Problems: A High-Road Practicum Use social science research tools to solve problems in Wisconsin communities! All academic backgrounds welcome. This course uses high-road strategies and applied social science research to solve real community problems. “High …

Term: Spring 2023 Status: Open Working With: Prof Mustafa Emirbayer, emirbaye@ssc.wisc.edu  Topic: Editing a Textbook on Race & Ethnicity in the US I am seeking research assistance on my coauthored undergraduate textbook, Race in America (W.W. Norton; coauthored with Matthew Desmond). Every few years, the textbook is reissued in a new updated edition. The assistance I …

Term: Spring 2023 (Soc 320, Section 036) Status: CLOSED Contact: Please contact Chloe Hart chloe.hart@wisc.edu to apply for this position. See details below. It is available for 1-3 credits. Description: Flirtation – expressing romantic or sexual interest in someone – isn’t a skill that is formally taught in schools or workplaces. Informal sources of information …

Term: Spring 2023 Status: Open Working With: Wendy Li, wyli@wisc.edu  Topic: Navigating Careers in Public Policy Who are the people who write our laws and policies in Washington, D.C.? Beyond the elected and appointed officials we might recognize in the news, there are hundreds of thousands of individuals who work to support and influence our government. …

Term: Fall 2022 (Soc 320, Section 036) Status: Open Contact: Please contact Chloe Hart chloe.hart@wisc.edu to apply for this position. See details below. It is available for 1-3 credits. Description: Flirtation – expressing romantic or sexual interest in someone – isn’t a skill that is formally taught in schools or workplaces. Informal sources of information …

Term: Fall 2022 (Soc 320, Section 235) Status: Open Contact: Please contact Chiara Packard cpackard@wisc.edu with your resume and cover letter (see details below) to apply for this position. It is available for 1-3 credits. Description: The prosecutor is one of the most powerful actors in the US criminal justice system. Robert Jackson once said, …

Term: Fall 2022 and Spring 2023 Status: Open Working With: Taylor Laemmli, laemmli@wisc.edu  Topic: Class Keeping: Paying Privileged Non-Elites to Maintain Elite Lifestyles This project examines class keeping, my term for a relationship in which elites pay privileged non-elites (class keepers) to maintain their lifestyles. Class keepers include, for example, personal assistants, estate managers, makeup artists, …

Term: Summer 2022 and Fall 2022 Status: Open Working With: Wendy Li, wyli@wisc.edu  Topic: Navigating Careers in Public Policy Who are the people who write our laws and policies in Washington, D.C.? Beyond the elected and appointed officials we might recognize in the news, there are hundreds of thousands of individuals who work to support and …