University of Wisconsin-Madison
Katherine Jensen is the 2023-24 recipient of the university-wide Emil H. Steiger Teaching Award. She has taught sociology special topics courses about race, class, gender, sexuality, asylum, and refugees. Katherine Jensen is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and International Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. As an ethnographer, her research interests include race/racism, refugees and …
Term: Spring 2024 (Soc 320, Section 094) Status: CLOSED Contact: Please contact Matthew Zinsli at zinsli@wisc.edu. It is available for 2-3 credits. Description: How are food system and agro-environmental governance shaped by understandings of technical expertise and scientific knowledge? How do global and local actors contest notions of authoritative knowledge as they define food standards? …
Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World Abstract: One of the most significant innovations in welfare policies in the past three decades has been the adoption of conditional cash transfers in dozens of countries in the Global South. The policies are puzzling, as they deviate from contributory social policy that privileges formal workers and were …
We are deeply saddened to share that our colleague Bert Adams passed away on January 6. He will be greatly missed. Bert joined the Sociology faculty of University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1965. For nearly 50 years he taught courses on Social Theory and large lecture classes on Marriage and the Family, reaching some 20,000 UW …
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 …
The Wisconsin Idea Course, a special undergrad class that doubles as a public lecture series, was featured in a College of Letters & Science news article by Aaron Conklin. “Curated this year by Mildred Fish Harnack Professor of Philosophy and Carol Dickson Bascom Professor of the Humanities Harry Brighouse, students in the 2023 edition …
We are saddened to share the news that Thomas (Tom) Heberlein passed away on Thursday, January 4th. Tom was a respected scholar of the human dimension of environmental change, and the spouse of Professor Emerita Elizabeth (Betty) Thomson. Tom was a treasured friend to many people in our community. Tom was on the UW–Madison faculty …
Crime & Delinquency Abstract: Despite substantial legal and policy debates, whether immigrant arrest rates changed during the Trump presidency remains surprisingly understudied. This is partially because immigration status is rarely available in crime data. We address this gap by applying difference-in-differences (DD) and difference-in-difference-in-differences (DDD) estimations to detailed arrest data from Texas and California from …
Qualitative Sociology Abstract: Across various markets, consumers rely on brokers to help them select goods. How do brokers shape consumers’ valuation? We address this question by drawing from two independent but analogous ethnographies of brokerage and purchasing in the New York housing market and the New York art market. Building upon the relational turn in …
Allison Daminger’s article, “A Cognitive Labor of Love,” published in Behavioral Scientist‘s “Brain Meets World,” won the Best Article Award in the Family & Parenting category of the 2023 Folio Eddie & Ozzie Awards. From Behavioral Scientist: “A Cognitive Labor of Love,” by Allison Daminger, won for best article in the Family & Parenting …