University of Wisconsin-Madison
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 …
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 …