University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Midwest Independent Publisher’s Association awarded Professor Chad Goldberg’s book “Education for Democracy: Renewing the Wisconsin Idea” the winner in the category of Non Fiction – Anthologies for the 31st Annual Midwest Book Awards. In this book, Goldberg uses the Wisconsin Idea as a lens to demonstrate that public higher education institutions remain a bastion …
Research from Ph.D. candidate Kelsey Q. Wright was featured in a new addition to the PRB Resource Library. Experiencing poverty shapes women’s access and use of contraceptives even when the services are free. Wright’s research on racial and socioeconomic factors that affect contraception selection and use was recently published in Social Science & Medicine.
Congratulations to Chad Goldberg on his appointment as Martindale-Bascom Professor! This honor acknowledges Goldberg’s scholarly contributions to the University and will support his research for the next five years. In addition to being a faculty member in the Department of Sociology, Goldberg is affiliated with the Center for German and European Studies, the George L. …
A recent study, published in the Journals of Gerontology: Series B, investigated how voting patterns change as people age. Sociology professor Michal Engelman led the research, along with sociology graduate student Won-tak Joo, sociology Professor Jason Fletcher and political science Professor Barry Burden. Using survey data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, which Engelman directs, they …
The Conversation and the Wisconsin State Journal each published an article about research on school absences by Professor Eric Grodsky, in collaboration with Elizabeth Vaade, Executive Director for Research & Innovation at the Madison Metropolitan School District, and Jaymes Pyne, Quantitative Research Associate at Stanford University (Sociology Ph.D. 2019.) Their study tracks how excused and …
Graduate student Ruo-Fan Liu (Mikki) received a dissertation fellowship from Chiang-Ching Kuo Foundation, a grant from the China Times Cultural Foundation Grant, and an award from the Transnational Initiative Fund from The Society for the Study of Social Problems Association. Liu’s research interests focus on higher education, student choices, and social mobility.
Graduate student Emily Burke co-authored an article on the U.S. Catholic bishops’ relative silence in response to Pope Francis’ position on climate change and environmental crises. The paper summarizes research conducted on a newly constructed dataset of 12,077 columns published by U.S. Catholic bishops in the official publications for U.S. Catholic dioceses between June 2014 …
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 …
The National Science Foundation funded Professors Jenna Nobles and Felix Elwert’s research “The Intergenerational Effects of COVID-19 on Inequality.” Collaborators include Florencia Torche, Professor of Sociology at Stanford University as Co-Principal Investigator, and Deirdre Lyell, Professor of Maternal-Fetal Medicine also at Stanford, as co-investigator. The team examines the effects of COVID-19 exposure on infant health …
Research by Christine Schwartz, Professor of Sociology, and her colleagues analyzed trends over the last 50 years in assortative mating, which is the tendency of people to marry those with similar jobs. They found that this tendency has stayed the same over time, while the availability of spouses with similar jobs – including a large …