University of Wisconsin-Madison
Term: Spring 2022 (Soc 320, Section 061) Status: Open Contact: Ada Britt Inman abinman@wisc.edu. This position is available for 1-3 credits. Description: This is an applied research course with virtual instruction. Through this spring research internship, undergraduate research assistants (RAs) will collaborate with and work under the direction of COWS staff members to edit, produce, …
Term: Fall 2021 (Soc 320, Section 281) Status: Open Contact: Jienian Zhang jienian.zhang@wisc.edu. This position is available for 1-3 credits. Description: The project investigates the history of racial equity work in a district. Data from public documents should capture the change over the years in their agendas and projects. Duties: Undergraduate research assistant needs to …
Term: Fall 2021 (Soc 320, Section 281) Status: Open Contact: Please contact Mikki Liu mikki.liu@wisc.edu with your resume and cover letter (see details below) to apply for this position. It is available for 1-3 credits. Description: This research aims to provide an overview of how different universities recruit and select high schoolers. Focusing on administrative …
Term: Spring 2021 (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: Spring 2021 Status: Open Working With: Wendy Li, wyli@wisc.edu Topic: Lobbying and the Revolving Door in Policymaking Processes This project studies the career patterns of lobbyists and policymakers, to understand how policy careers and policy networks take shape. I am generating a dataset of policy professionals who work in trade policy, in order to conduct …
Term: Spring 2021 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 to the use of classed and racial discourses about the provision of contraceptives/federal contraceptive programs in the U.S. since the …
Term: Spring 2021 Status: Open Working With: Kelsey Wright, kwright22@wisc.edu Topic: “Safer-at-Home”: How Shifting Daily Realities Affect Life Course Decisions, Aspirations, and Practices This project investigates how the daily lives of people have been affected due to “Safer-at-Home” orders, and whether those changes have affected (or not) respondents’ ideas and practices around romantic relationships and childbearing. …
Term: Spring 2021 (Soc 320, Section 081) Status: Open Contact: Taylor Laemmli laemmli@wisc.edu. This position is available for 1-3 credits. Description: This project draws on semi-structured interviews with service industry and arts workers conducted during and in the aftermath of the arrival of the COVID-19 virus in the United States. I talked to workers about …
Term: Fall 2020 (Soc 320, Section 135) Status: Closed Contact: Please contact Prof Pamela Oliver pamela.oliver@wisc.edu if interested. It is available for 1-3 credits. Description: This project is in collaboration with Dane County community activists who are concerned about who is in the jail and people’s criminal histories that send them in and out of …
Term: Spring 2021 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 public and investor relations documents of all publicly traded American corporations. Using the documents collected by the graduate project investigator, …