University of Wisconsin-Madison
Term: Spring 2024 (Soc 320, Section 278) Status: CLOSED Contact: Please contact Molly Clark-Barol at clarkbarol@wisc.edu. It is available for 2-3 credits. Description: The work will be a combination of two projects with the same community partner: FREE, a statewide organization of formerly incarcerated women. The first project is a needs assessment and formative evaluation …
Term: Spring 2024 (Soc 320, Section 136) Status: CLOSED Contact: Please contact Chloe Hart chloe.hart@wisc.edu to apply for this position. See details below. It is available for 2 credits. Description: How have large societal shifts like the #MeToo movement and the Covid-19 pandemic shifted Americans’ views toward appropriate sexual behavior? I take up these questions …
Term: Spring 2024 (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 2 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 2023 (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 2 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 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. …